Current perspectives in social theory : a research annual

Author(s)

• McNall, Scott G.
• Howe, Gary N.
• Wilson, John
• Agger, Ben
• Knottnerus, J. David
• Prendergast, Christopher
• Lehmann, Jennifer M.

Bibliographic Information

Current perspectives in social theory : a research annual

editors, Scott G. McNall, Gary N. Howe

JAI Press, 1980-

• v. 1. 1980
• v. 2. 1981
• v. 3. 1982
• v. 4. 1983
• v. 5. 1984
• v. 6. 1985
• v. 7. 1986
• v. 8. 1987
• v. 9. 1989
• v. 10. 1990
• v. 11. 1991
• v. 12. 1992
• v. 13. 1993
• v. 14. 1994
• v. 15. 1995
• v. 16. 1996
• v. 17. 1997
• v. 18. 1998
• v. 19. 1999
• v. 20. 2000

Other Title

Current perspectives in social theory

Note

Publisher varies: Emerald v. 28-29

Vol. 3-6 / editor, Scott G. McNall

Vol. 7 / editor, John Wilson, Scott G. McNall

Vol. 8-10 / editor, John Wilson

Vol. 11-15 / editor, Ben Agger

Vol. 16-20 / editor, Jennifer M. Lehmann

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Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 16. 1996 ISBN 9780762300327

Description

This is the 16th volume in the series discussing a variety of topics in the field of current perspectives in social theory.

Volume

v. 17. 1997 ISBN 9780762302369

Description

Current Perspectives in Social Theory (CPST) presents essays on major issues in contemporary theoretical sociology, providing both critical overviews of major debates and original contributions by specialists working in social theory, sociological theory, and critical theory.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Postmodernism, subjectivity and objectivity, micro and macro theory: how much difference is too much? - black feminist thought and the politics of postmodern social theory, Patricia Hill Collins
• the standpoint epistemologies and social theory, Norman K. Denzin
• oppression from within and without in sociological theories - an application to gender, Irene Browne, Paula England
• the rise of the postmodern left, Timothy M. Chester, Clasina B. Segura
• computational social grammar - a metatheory and methodology for exploring structurational dynamics, Martin Ruef
• Pierre Bourdieu and the call for a reflexive sociology, Thomas Meisenheider. Part 2 Critical theory: reinventing technology in social theory, Mark A. Shields
• social rights and a critical sociology of law, Richard R. Weiner. Part 3 Classical theory: Lenin and the problem of the intelligentsia, Jerome Karabel
• Durkheim, moral individualism and the Dreyfus Affair, Chad R. Farrell.

Volume

v. 18. 1998 ISBN 9780762304165

Description

This is the 18th volume in a series discussing a topics in social theory. It is divided into three parts which address: critical social theory beyond critical theory; critical social theory and contemporary social structures; and critical and contemporary social H locies.

Table of Contents

Critical Social Theory Beyond "Critical Theory". Beyond the carousel for reification: critical social theory after Luckacs, Adorno and Habermas (H.F. Dahms). Simmel-Eco vs. Simmel-Marx: ironized alienation (D. Weinstein, M.A. Weinstein). Communicative action in new social movements: the experience of Students for a Democratic Society (S.D. Stryker). Critical Social Theory and Contemporary Social Structures. The continuing significance of structural Marxism for feminist social theory (F.O. Taylor, IV). Structure, structuration and autopoesis: the emerging significance of recursive theory (K.D. Bailey). Critical and Contemporary Social Psychologies. Reselfing after postmodern culture: sacred social psychology (P. Wexler). Identity, hegemony, and social reproduction (L. Langman). Explorations from the "far side": schizophrenia, social control, and selfhood (T.L. Scheid).

Volume

v. 19. 1999 ISBN 9780762305346

Description

"Current Perspectives in Social Theory" presents essays on the major issues in contemporary theoretical work in sociology, providing both a critical overview of the development of major debates and original formulations by specialists working in various fields. Emphasis is put upon the presentation of new developments in special areas. Intended to cover the discipline as a whole, "Current Perspectives in Social Theory" seeks to maintain a balance between the general and the particular by dividing each volume into two parts, the first consisting of field statements by recognized academics in major areas of sociology, the second consisting of pieces focused on more detailed theoretical issues.

Table of Contents

Editorial board. List of contributors. The Social Nature of Discourse. Books author authors, but reading writes: a social theory of the text (B. Agger). Constitution of meaning: on the practical conditions of social understanding (O. Lee). The Social Nature of Gender. The bonds of hierarchy: Anglo-American psycho-analytic feminist theory on inequality in intimate relationships (A. Branaman). Developing the gender relations perspective: the emergence of a new conceptualization of gender in the 1990s (E.J. Hall). Social Structure, Social Change and Social Theory. Two faces of collective action frames: a theoretical consideration (R.H. Williams, R.D. Benford). Barry Hindess and Paul Hirst: the origins of capitalism and the origins of post-Marxism (R. Duchesne). Emmanuel Levinas and the moral displacement of knowledge: rethinking the relation between the moral and social orders (S.J. Knapp).

Volume

v. 20. 2000 ISBN 9780762306459

Description

Current Perspectives in Social Theory (CPST) presents essays on major issues in contemporary theoretical sociology, providing both critical overviews of major debates and original contributions by specialists working in social theory, sociological theory, and critical theory.

Volume

v. 13. 1993 ISBN 9781559385770

Description

"Recent Developments in the Theory of Social Structure" is an integrated collection of essays reviewing and assessing progress in social structural analysis since 1970. Organizationally, the book is divided into six parts corresponding to six analytical levels of social structure: social relationships, social networks, intraorganizational relations, interorganizational relations, societal stratification and the world system. The ten essays expound and assess what has been learned about the influences of social structure on human behaviour at each level of analysis. In the introduction, the editors examine the metatheoretical issues in structural analysis and promote the cause of theory integration.

Table of Contents

• From 1789 to 1989 - postcommunism as unsoviet disunion in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Timothy Luke
• glasnost, perestroika and the management of oppositional popular culture in the Soviet Union, 1985-1991, Tom Cushman
• between the politics of production and the politics of the sign - post-Marxism, postmodernism and new times, Nick Witheford and Richard Gruneau
• Marcuse and the postmodern - a motive for Marx, Curtis White
• the undecidability of Derrida/the premature demise of Althusser, Jennifer M. Lehmann
• the voyeurs desire, Norman K. Denzin
• hermeneutics as organizational politics, Stephan Fuchs
• on the social history of sociology - from Merton to Foucault via Durkheim, George Free
• legitimation and justification - the logic of moral and contractual solidarity in Weber and Durkheim, Mark Gould
• Durkheim-as-author/suicide-as-text - writing, death and subjectivity, Christopher Forth.

Volume

v. 14. 1994 ISBN 9781559386944

Description

"Recent Developments in the Theory of Social Structure" is an integrated collection of essays reviewing and assessing progress in social structural analysis since 1970. Organizationally, the book is divided into six parts corresponding to six analytical levels of social structure: social relationships, social networks, intraorganizational relations, interorganizational relations, societal stratification and the world system. The ten essays expound and assess what has been learned about the influences of social structure on human behaviour at each level of analysis. In the introduction, the editors examine the metatheoretical issues in structural analysis and promote the cause of theory integration.

Table of Contents

• From stability to silence - the dilemma of the modern, postmodern and the nonmodern, John Saundersreed
• critical theory, poststructuralism and critical realism, Raymond Morrow
• Marxism, postmodernism and critique, Barry Smart
• Marxism, postmodernism and beyond - a critical analysis of David Harvey's theory of contemporary culture, Paul Kamolnick
• revitalizing sociology - postmodern perspectives on methodology, Pauline Vallaincourt Rosenau
• post-Marxist theories of civil society, Jeff Livesay
• capitalisms, socialisms, communisms - a Marxist view, Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff
• nonfoundationalism and democratic judgement, Mark Warren
• contradictions of a political economy of sign value, Robert Goldman
• minimalist sociology versus taking it big, Steven P. Dandaneau
• ecological politics and local struggles - earth first!, as an environmental resistance movement, Timothy Luke
• discursive moments of identification, David D. Brown.

Volume

v. 15. 1995 ISBN 9781559388764

Description

"Recent Developments in the Theory of Social Structure" is an integrated collection of essays reviewing and assessing progress in social structural analysis since 1970. Organizationally, the book is divided into six parts corresponding to six analytical levels of social structure: social relationships, social networks, intraorganizational relations, interorganizational relations, societal stratification and the world system. The ten essays expound and assess what has been learned about the influences of social structure on human behaviour at each level of analysis. In the introduction, the editors examine the metatheoretical issues in structural analysis and promote the cause of theory integration.

Table of Contents

• Disciplinary sociology in the united methods of empiricism - marking the boundaries to keep the poachers out, Tugrul Ilter
• testing Gouldner's coming crisis thesis - on the waxing and waning of intellectual influence, James J. Chriss
• the making of serious speech - a social theory of professional discourse, Steven C. Ward
• reading Deleuze and Guattari fast, Allen Shelton
• the birth of the cinematic, surveillance society, Norman K. Denzin
• culture, social structures and discursive fields, Lyn Spillman
• critique, conservatism, ideology - the Frankfurt schools critique of the sociology of knowledge revisited, Goran Dahl
• can symbolic interactionism really contribute to macro sociology, Jonathan H. Turner
• morality, free will and transcendence in Parsons action theory, Jan Ajzner
• regulation theory and the politics of global restructuring, Sara Schoomaker
• between democratic populists and bureaucratic greens - the limits of liberal democratic responses to the environmental crisis, Timothy W. Luke
• the evolution of systems of social interaction, John Skvoretz and Thomas J. Fararo.

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• NCID: BA06800375
• ISBN:
  • 0892321547
  • 0892321903
  • 0892322977
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• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Greenwich, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC7 : 361
• Subject Headings:
  • FREE : Sociology -- Methodology -- Periodicals