Key concepts in critical social theory
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Key concepts in critical social theory
(SAGE key concepts)
SAGE, c2005
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Critical Social Theory
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Clear and accessible, Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory makes difficult ideas available to an undergraduate audience.
- Larry Ray, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent
The SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding. Written by experienced and respected academics, the books are indispensable study aids and guides to comprehension.
Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory:
Provides brief accounts of the central ideas behind the key concepts
Prepares students to tackle primary texts, giving them a point of reference when they find themselves stuck
Discusses each concept in an introductory way
Offers further reading guidance for independent learning.
This is an essential companion for reading for students across the social sciences who are exploring critical theory for the first time.
Table of Contents
Alienation
Alienation
Anomie
Body-Subject
Body-Power/Bio-Power
Capital (in the work of Pierre Bourdieu)
Citizenship
Colonization of the Lifeworld
Crisis
Cycles of Contention
Deconstruction
Discourse
Discourse Ethics
Doxa
Epistemological Break
Field
Freedom
Globalization
Habitus
Hegemony
Hexis/Body Techniques
Humanism and Anti-Humanism
Hybridity
I and Me
Id, Ego and Superego
Ideal Speech Situation
Identity (personal, social, collective and 'the politics of')
Ideology
Illusio
Imaginary, Symbolic and Real
Intersubjectivity
Knowledge Constitutive Interests
Lifeworld
Mirror Stage and the Ego
New Social Movements
Orientalism
Patriarchy
Performativity
Power
Power/Knowledge
Public Sphere
Racism(s) and Ethnicity
Rationality
Realism
Recognition (desire and struggle for)
Relationalsim (versus Substantialism)
Repertoires of Contention
Repression (Psychoanalysis)
Sex/Gender Distinction
Social Capital
Social Class
Social Constructions/Constructionism
Social Movements
Social Space I (Bourdieu)
Social Space II (Networks)
Symbolic Power/Symbolic Violence
System and Lifeworld
Unconscious (The)
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