Social theory twenty introductory lectures
Social theory is the theoretical core of the social sciences, clearly distinguishable from political theory and cultural analysis. This book offers a unique overview of the development of social theory from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the present day. Spanning the literature in Englis...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2009.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
