Social theory : the multicultural and classic readings
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Social theory : the multicultural and classic readings
Westview Press, 1993
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Description
This multicultural anthology represents the range of social theory as it has developed from the 19th century to the present day, and as it will take shape in the 21st century. The book reconstructs the actual dialogue of contemporary social thought and juxtaposes social theorists in unexpected ways. Comprehensive introductory essays identify the social context of the writings, and comment on the currents of change that shaped the fundamental questions of modern and postmodern life.
Table of Contents
- Social theory - its uses and pleasures
- modernity's classical age, 1840-1919
- the two sides of society (including writings by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Emile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Ferdinand de Saussure)
- social theories and world conflict
- action, knowledge, self (including writings by John Maynard Keynes, Georg Lukacs, Max Horkheimer, Talcott Parsons, Audre Lorde)
- after modernity, since 1979 - the idea of the postmodern (including writings by Andreas Huyssen, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Richard Rorty, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard)
- reaction and alternatives (including writings by Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Nancy Hartsock, Molefi Kete Asante, Jeffrey Alexander, James S. Coleman, Arthur Schlesinger)
- after postmodernism (including writings by Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates, Donna Haraway, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Gayatri Charkrovorty Spivak, Patricia Hill Collins, Gloria Anzaldua, Jeffrey Weeks, Judith Butler, Patricia Gunn Allen, Vaclav Havel).
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