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Social theory : twenty introductory lectures / Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl ; translated by Alex Skinner.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: xii, 605 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521870634 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0521870631 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9780521690881
  • 0521690889
Uniform titles: Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 300.1 22
LOC classification:
  • H61.15 .J6313 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

Translated from the German.

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