Joas, Hans,  1948- <br/><br/>
Social theory :  twenty introductory lectures / 
Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl ; translated by Alex Skinner. 
 - Cambridge, UK ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2009. 
 - xii, 605 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>What is theory? -- The classical attempt at synthesis: Talcott Parsons -- Parsons on the road to normativist functionalism -- Parsons and the elaboration of normativist functionalism -- Neo-utilitarianism -- Interpretive approaches (1): symbolic interactionism -- Interpretive approaches (2): ethnomethodology -- Conflict sociology and conflict theory -- Habermas and critical theory -- Habermas' 'theory of communicative action' -- Niklas Luhmann's radicalization of functionalism -- Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration and the new British sociology of power -- The renewal of Parsonianism and modernization theory -- Structuralism and poststructuralism -- Between structuralism and theory of practice: the cultural sociology of Pierre Bourdieu -- French anti-structuralists (Cornelius Castoriadis, Alain Touraine and Paul Ricoeur) -- Feminist social theories -- A crisis of modernity? New diagnoses (Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Robert Bellah, and the debate between liberals and communitarians) -- Neopragmatism -- How things stand. 
<br/><br/><br/>Translated from the German. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521870634 (hardback : alk. paper) 0521870631 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780521690881 0521690889 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009015141 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA944693  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015175073  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social sciences--Philosophy--History--20th century.<br/>Sociology--Philosophy--History--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>H61.15  / .J6313 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>300.1