| Description |
x, 305 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Social Therapy and Sociology / Stephen P. Turner -- 2. The Centrality of the Classics / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- 3. Lego Quia Inutile: An Alternative Justification for the Classics / Gianfranco Poggi -- 4. Three Ideologies or One? The Pseudo-battle of Modernity / Immanuel Wallerstein -- 5. Whose Classics? Which Readings? Interpretation and Cultural Difference in the Canonization of Sociological Theory / Craig Calhoun -- 6. Crises of Modernity: Political Sociology in Historical Contexts / Peter Wagner -- 7. Marxism after Communism / Erik Olin Wright -- 8. Standpoint Epistemology (a Feminist Version): How Social Disadvantage Creates Epistemic Advantage / Sandra Harding -- 9. The Centrality of Culture in Social Theory: Fundamental Clues from Weber and Durkheim / Anne E. Kane -- 10. Measurement and the Two Cultures of Sociology / John R. Hall -- 11. Toward a Reflexive Sociology: A Workshop with Pierre Bourdieu / Loic J. D. Wacquant |
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12. Homo Sociologicus: Do We Need Him/Her? / Peter Abell -- 13. Science and Technology Studies and the Renewal of Social Theory / Steve Woolgar -- 14. Theory Then/Theory Now (or, "The Sociology is about to Begin, Said the Man with the Loudspeaker") / Alan Sica |
| Summary |
This volume collects together a broad range of essays on social theory written by an international group of practitioners in the field. The essays are organized around a common theme: taking the long view of social theory as a tradition |
| Notes |
"In memory of Edward Shils, 1910-1995"--P. facing t.p |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [274]-294) and index |
| Subject |
Sociology -- History.
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Sociology -- Philosophy.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Author |
Turner, Stephen P., 1951-
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| LC no. |
96003615 |
| ISBN |
0631191925 |
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0631191933 paperback |
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