Modern social theory : an introduction
Provides an introduction to the topics, theories and debates in modern social theory. Fourteen chapters have been written by specialists in the field, providing guidance of the modern sociological imagination, from the legacies of the classical figures of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel and Parsons to the work of contemporary theorists.
XXI, 378 p
9780199255702, 0199255709
758237912
Classical social theory, I: contexts and beginnings
Classical social theory, II: Karl Marx and Eḿile Durkheim
Classical social theory, III: Max Weber and Georg Simmel
Functionalism and its critics
Interpretativism and interactionism
Historical social theory
Western Marxism
Psychoanalytic social theory
Structuralism and post-structuralism
Structure and agency
Feminist social theory
Modernity and postmodernity: part I
Modernity and postmodernity: part II
Globalization
Conclution: Social theory for the twenty-first century
Índices
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