| Description |
vii, 216 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. An Introduction to Sociological Theories -- 2. Emile Durkheim -- 3. Marx and Marxism -- 4. Max Weber -- 5. Feminist Theories -- 6. Interpretive Sociology: Action Theories -- 7. Michel Foucault: Discourse Theory and the Body-centredness of Modernity -- 8. Language and Social Life: Structuralism, Post-structuralism and Relativism -- 9. Post-modernity and Postmodernism -- 10. Critical Responses to Post-modernity and Postmodernism |
| Summary |
"Introducing Social Theory traces the development of social theorizing from the classical ideas about modernity of Durkheim, Marx and Weber, through twentieth-century debates around structure and agency and developments in feminist thinking, to a uniquely accessible review of contemporary theoretical controversies in sociology. Focusing on relativism, post-modernity and postmodernism and their critics, this final section of the book provides a cogent and highly readable account of the debates at the heart of social theorizing today. Particularly impressive here is the clarity and analytical skill with which the ideas of Foucault, Bauman, Habermas, Beck and Giddens are explained. This book is remarkably easy to follow and understand - students need never be intimidated by social theory again!"--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Rev. ed. of: Studying society. 1993 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Jones, Pip.
Studying society
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| LC no. |
2002013552 |
| ISBN |
0745626998 paperback |
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074562698X hardback |
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