Social theory : twenty introductory lectures

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Social theory : twenty introductory lectures

Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl ; translated by Alex Skinner

Cambridge University Press, 2009

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  • : hardback

タイトル別名

Sozialtheorie : zwanzig einführende Vorlesungen

Social theory : 20 introductory lectures

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Originally published in German: Sozialtheorie : zwanzig einführende Vorlesungen. Suhrkamp, 2004

Includes bibliographical references (p. 561-591) and indexes

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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 English, French and German, it provides an excellent background to the most important social theorists and theories in contemporary sociological thought, with crisp summaries of the main books, arguments and controversies. It also deals with newly emerging schools from rational choice to symbolic interactionism, with new ambitious approaches (Habermas, Luhmann, Giddens, Bourdieu), structuralism and antistructuralism, critical revisions of modernization theory, feminism and neopragmatism. Written by two of the world's leading sociologists and based on their extensive academic teaching, this unrivalled work is ideal both for students in the social sciences and humanities and for anyone interested in contemporary theoretical debates.

目次

  • Introduction
  • 1. What is theory?
  • 2. The classical attempt at synthesis: Talcott Parsons
  • 3. Parsons on the road to normativist functionalism
  • 4. Parsons and the elaboration of normativist functionalism
  • 5. Neo-utilitarianism
  • 6. Interpretive approaches (1): symbolic interactionism
  • 7. Interpretive approaches (2): ethnomethodology
  • 8. Conflict sociology and conflict theory
  • 9. Habermas and critical theory
  • 10. Habermas' 'theory of communicative action'
  • 11. Niklas Luhmann's radicalization of functionalism
  • 12. Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration and the new British sociology of power
  • 13. The renewal of Parsonianism and modernization theory
  • 14. Structuralism and poststructuralism
  • 15. Between structuralism and theory of practice: the cultural sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
  • 16. French anti-structuralists (Cornelius Castoriadis, Alain Touraine and Paul Ricoeur)
  • 17. Feminist social theories
  • 18. A crisis of modernity? New diagnoses (Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Robert Bellah, and the debate between liberals and communitarians)
  • 19. Neopragmatism
  • 20. How things stand
  • Bibliography.

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