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Book Synopsis Social Theory in the Twentieth Century by : Patrick Baert
Download or read book Social Theory in the Twentieth Century written by Patrick Baert and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for students of sociology, politics, anthropology and philosophy, this book serves as a general introduction to the development of social theory, outlining key figures and schools of thought including Elster, Giddens, Foucault and Habermas. Baert (social and political sciences, Cambridge) does not just objectively present these theories, but offers a critical response. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond by : Patrick Baert
Download or read book Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond written by Patrick Baert and published by Polity. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century has been brought right up-to-date to offer an easy-to-read but provocative account of the key figures and classic schools central to the development of social theory, up to the cutting-edge developments in social theory today.
Download or read book Social Theory written by Hans Joas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Social Theory by : Carsten Bagge Laustsen
Download or read book Social Theory written by Carsten Bagge Laustsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook offers a new approach to understanding social theory. Framed around paired theoretical perspectives on a series of sociological problems, the book shows how distinctive viewpoints shed light on different facets of social phenomena. The book includes sociology’s "founding fathers", major 20th-century thinkers and recent voices such as Butler and Zizek. Philosophically grounded and focused on interpretation and analysis, the book provides a clear understanding of theory’s scope while developing students’ skills in evaluating, applying and comparing theories.
Book Synopsis Social Theory: Ideas in Profile by : William Outhwaite
Download or read book Social Theory: Ideas in Profile written by William Outhwaite and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics In a world that is constantly changing, understanding the world has never been more important. But by thinking in neat segments, we miss the big picture. When economists think about globalisation, they often see trade; politicians see institutions and power; artists see a new global aesthetic. Social theory is what sees them all together. Renowned theorist William Outhwaite takes us on a journey through the major thinkers and topics of this often misunderstood discipline. We move from the the work of Rousseau to the still powerful insights of Marx and on to the great sociologists, Weber and Durkheim. We probe the big questions - why is religion powerful, where does capitalism come from - and move through the key ideas of the twentieth century thought from the Frankfurt School to Bourdieu and Giddens. Lastly Outhwaite questions the role of social theory today. Where does this vital discipline go next and how will its wide horizons help us stand up to the challenge of the twenty-first century?
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Classical and Contemporary Social Theory by : Berch Berberoglu
Download or read book An Introduction to Classical and Contemporary Social Theory written by Berch Berberoglu and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical analysis of classical and contemporary social theory from a class perspective. It is concise, lucid, and well written.
Book Synopsis Social Theory and Modern Sociology by : Anthony Giddens
Download or read book Social Theory and Modern Sociology written by Anthony Giddens and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Anthony Giddens addresses a range of issues concerning current developments in social theory, relating them to the prospects for sociology in the closing decades of the twentieth century. Composed of closely integrated papers, all written over the past few years, the book includes seven essays not previously published, plus two have not appeared in English before. In assessing the likely future evolution of sociology in particular, and the social sciences in general, the author both draws upon ideas established in his more abstract theoretical writings and examines critically competing traditions of thought. Those looking for an accessible introduction to Gidden's writing will find in this book a set of clear expositions of his basic ideas. By situating these ideas in relation to the critical assessment of the views of others, however, the author provides new sources of insight into the distinctiveness of his own claims.
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Book Synopsis Social Theory Re-Wired by : Wesley Longhofer
Download or read book Social Theory Re-Wired written by Wesley Longhofer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of Social Theory Re-Wired is a significantly revised edition of this leading text and its unique web learning interactive programs that "allow us to go farther into theory and to build student skills than ever before," according to many teachers. Vital political and social updates are reflected both in the text and the online supplements. "System updates" to each section offer an expanded set of contemporary theory readings that focus on the impacts of information/digital technologies on each of the text’s five big themes: 1) the Puzzles of Social Order, 2) the Social Consequences of Capitalism, 3) the Darkside of Modernity, 4) Subordinated/Alternative Knowledges, and 5) Self-Identity and Society. New to this edition: The "big ideas/questions" thematic structure of the text as well as the connections between classical and contemporary theorists continues to be popular with instructors. This feature is enhanced in the new edition An expanded "Podcast Companions" series now pairs at least one podcast to every reading in the book Many new updates to the exercise platform allow students to theorize and build theory on their own New readings excerpts include such important recent work as: Shoshana Zuboff’s "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism," Ruha Benjamin’s "Race After Technology," David Graeber’s "Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit," Sherry Turkle’s “Always-On/Always-on-You.”
Download or read book After Parsons written by Renee C. Fox and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esteemed twentieth-century sociologist Talcott Parsons sought to develop a comprehensive and coherent scheme for sociology that could be applied to every society and historical epoch, and address every aspect of human social organization and culture. His theory of social action has exerted enormous influence across a wide range of social science disciplines. After Parsons, edited by Renée Fox, Victor Lidz, and Harold Bershady, provides a critical reexamination of Parsons' theory in light of historical changes in the world and advances in sociological thought since his death. After Parsons is a fresh examination of Parsons' theoretical undertaking, its significance for social scientific thought, and its implications for present-day empirical research. The book is divided into four parts: Social Institutions and Social Processes; Societal Community and Modernization; Sociology and Culture; and the Human Condition. The chapters deal with Parsons' notions of societal community, societal evolution, and modernization and modernity. After Parsons addresses major themes of enduring relevance, including social differentiation and cultural diversity, social solidarity, universalism and particularism, and trust and affect in social life. The contributors explore these topics in a wide range of social institutions—family and kinship, economy, polity, the law, medicine, art, and religion—and within the context of contemporary developments such as globalization, the power of the United States as an "empireless empire," the emergence of forms of fundamentalism, the upsurge of racial, tribal, and ethnic conflicts, and the increasing occurence of deterministic and positivistic thought. Rather than simply celebrating Parsons and his accomplishments, the contributors to After Parsons rethink and reformulate his ideas to place them on more solid foundations, extend their scope, and strengthen their empirical insights. After Parsons constitutes the work of a distinguished roster of American and European sociologists who find Parsons' theory of action a valuable resource for addressing contemporary issues in sociological theory. All of the essays in this volume take elements of Parsons' theory and critique, adapt, refine, or extend them to gain fresh purchase on problems that confront sociologists today.
Book Synopsis Social Theory and the Urban Question by : Peter Saunders
Download or read book Social Theory and the Urban Question written by Peter Saunders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis War in Social Thought by : Hans Joas
Download or read book War in Social Thought written by Hans Joas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that sociologists have either ignored or grappled with the idea of war and examines the reasons behind this denial of the violent nature of the human race.
Book Synopsis Twentieth-century Social Thought by : Raymond Paul Cuzzort
Download or read book Twentieth-century Social Thought written by Raymond Paul Cuzzort and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1995 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mainstream text for sociology and humanity introductory classes focuses on controversial social philosophers and theorists in the context of Western social thought and culture. It shows that social thinkers are involved with profound problems of both a humanistic and scientific nature and presents the work and theoretical position of each social thinker covered. Features: * Includes problems and puzzles section to promote critical thinking. * Provides glossary of terms used in theorists' discussions. New to this edition: * Offers imaginative applications of how social theory and the work of social thinkers can be used to enhance understanding of daily life in PUTTING SOCIAL THOUGHT TO WORK sections. * Discusses major works of social scientists who made major contributions to modern social thought in ENCOUNTERS WITH SOCIAL THOUGHT sections. * Introduces three new chapters: THE SOCIAL THOUGHT OF PITRUM SOROKIN, ABUNDANCE, LEISURE AND LONELINESS: OBSERVATIONS ON SOCIETY FROM DAVID RIESMAN and BUILDING A GLOBAL CIVIC CULTURE - ELISE BOULDING AND STRATEGIES FOR A PEACEFUL WORLD.
Book Synopsis Fin de Siècle Social Theory by : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Download or read book Fin de Siècle Social Theory written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Verso. This book was released on 1995 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In four closely interwoven studies, Jeffrey Alexander identifies the central dilemma that provokes contemporary social theory and proposes a new way to resolve it. The dream of reason that marked the previous fin de siècle foundered in the face of the cataclysms of the twentieth century, when war, revolution, and totalitarianism came to be seen as themselves products of reason. In response there emerged the profound skepticism about rationality that has so starkly defined the present fin de siècle. From Wittgenstein through Rorty and postmodernism, relativism rejects the very possibility of universal standards, while for both positivism and neo-Marxists like Bourdieu, reductionism claims that ideas simply reflect their social base. In a readable and spirited argument, Alexander develops the alternative of a "neo-modernist" position that defends reason from within a culturally centered perspective while remaining committed to the goal of explaining, not merely interpreting, contemporary social life. On the basis of a sweeping reinterpretation of postwar society and its intellectuals, he suggests that both antimodernist radicalism and postmodernist resignation are now in decline; a more democratic, less ethnocentric and more historically contingent universalizing social theory may thus emerge. Developing in his first two studies a historical approach to the problem of "absent reason," Alexander moves via a critique of Richard Rorty to construct his case for "present reason." Finally, focusing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, he provokes the most sustained critical reflection yet on this influential thinker. Fin de Siecle Social Theory is a tonic intervention in contemporary debates, showing how social and cultural theory can properly take the measure of the extraordinary times in which we live.
Book Synopsis Politics, Personality, and Social Science in the Twentieth Century by : Harold Dwight Lasswell
Download or read book Politics, Personality, and Social Science in the Twentieth Century written by Harold Dwight Lasswell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1969-08-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Lasswell is one of America's most distinguished political scientists, a man whose work has had enormous impact both in the United States and abroad upon not only his own field but also those of sociology, psychology and psychiatry, economics, law, anthropology, and communications. This collection of essays is the first full-scale effort to deal with the voluminous writings of Lasswell and explore his at once charming and baffling personality which is perhaps inseparable from the inventiveness, unconventionality, and unusual scope of his work. The authors of these essays, many of whom are former students or collaborators, view their subject from a variety of perspectives. What emerges is a full assessment of Lasswell's many-faceted contribution to the social scholarship of his time.
Book Synopsis Social Theory and Modernity by : Nigel Dodd
Download or read book Social Theory and Modernity written by Nigel Dodd and published by Polity. This book was released on 1999-10-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new textbook in social theory takes the concept of modernity as its guiding theme.
Book Synopsis British Social Theory by : John Scott
Download or read book British Social Theory written by John Scott and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique contribution to discussions of social theory, this book examines pre-20th century histories and discussions that culminated in the classical period of sociology, how they were lost, and why they remain important today.
