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Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Mainstream and Critical Social Theory written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey C Alexander
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780761967781
Total Pages : 3328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (677 download)
Download or read book Mainstream and Critical Social Theory written by Jeffrey C Alexander and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2001-06-25 with total page 3328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unrivalled in scope and depth, and prepared by one of the acknowledged giants of contemporary social theory, this boxed set provides a magisterial review of the central canons, discourses and research programs in social theory. The reader is provided with a route-map through the complex terrain of social theory from classical to contemporary times. Alexander distils an amazingly rich set of resources into eight exceptional volumes. For the specialist who does not have all of these materials to hand, the set offers an incisive and invaluable research aid. For the non-specialist, the volumes constitute an elegant and reliable entry into the heart of what is important in social theory. For specialist and non-specialist alike, Alexander's choices will be a fascinating insight into his view of the essentials in the Western tradition of social theory. The collection begins with a specially prepared essay by Alexander that precludes a view of social theory as a "glorious" onward march. Instead, he concentrates on the relativity of social theory, a relativity that derives from the status of sociology as a human science rather than a science of nature. The Introduction provides the reader with a guide through the main structural shifts in social theory. It demonstrates why the classics are significant and elucidates their contemporary relevance; and indicates the limitations of the classical tradition, tracing where these limitations have borne fruit in contemporary research initiatives and achievements. Alexander identifies central canons in sociological research and lays the groundwork for framing each. Urbane, shrewd and compelling, Alexander's mapping of the canons will inspire debate in sociology and offers an exciting new reorientation for reading and understanding social theory.
Author : Jeffrey C Alexander
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780761974567
Total Pages : 1664 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (745 download)
Download or read book Mainstream and Critical Social Theory written by Jeffrey C Alexander and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2001-06-25 with total page 1664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unrivalled in scope and depth, and prepared by one of the acknowledged giants of contemporary social theory, this boxed set provides a magisterial review of the central canons, discourses and research programs in social theory. The reader is provided with a route-map through the complex terrain of social theory from classical to contemporary times. Alexander distills an amazingly rich set of resources into eight exceptional volumes. For the specialist who does not have all of these materials to hand, the set offers an incisive and invaluable research aid. For the non-specialist, the volumes constitute an elegant and reliable entry into the heart of what is important in social theory.
Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Mainstream and Critical Social Theory: Canons and critical discourses written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Mainstream and Critical Social Theory: Canons and critical discourses written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Mainstream and Critical Social Theory: Research programs and current controversies written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Max Horkheimer
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826400833
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Critical Theory written by Max Horkheimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and the to much current social-philosophical thought, including the work of Herbert Marcuse. Apart from their historical significance and even from their scholarly eminence, these essays contain an immediate relevance only now becoming fully recognized.
Author : Dennis R. Fox
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761952114
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (521 download)
Download or read book Critical Psychology written by Dennis R. Fox and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-05-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad-ranging introduction to the diverse strands of critical psychology explores the history, practice and values of psychology, scrutinises a wide range of sub-disciplines, and sets out the major theoretical frameworks.
Author : Crawford Brough Macpherson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802063366
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Property, Mainstream and Critical Positions written by Crawford Brough Macpherson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legitimate role of the state in relation to property and the justification of property institutions of various kinds are matters of increasing concern in the modern world. Political and social theorists, jurists, economists, and historians have taken positions for and against the property institutions upheld in their time by the state, and further dehate seems inevitable. This book brings together ten classic statements which set out the main arguments that are now appealed to and places them in historical and critical perspective. The extracts presented here - all substantial - are from Loeke, Rousseau, Bentham, Marx, Mill, Green, Veblen, Tawney, Morris Cohen, and Charles Reich. A note hy the editor at the head of each extract highlights the arguments in it and relates it to the time at which it was written. Professor Macpherson's introductory and concluding essays expose the roots of some common misconceptions of property, identify current changes in the concept of property, and predict future changes. Macpherson argues that a specific change in the concept (which now appears possible) is needed to rescue liberal democracy from its present impasse. Property is both a valuable text on a crucial topic in political and social theory and a significant contribution to the continuing debate
Author : Jeffrey C Alexander
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780761974567
Total Pages : 1664 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (745 download)
Download or read book Mainstream and Critical Social Theory written by Jeffrey C Alexander and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2001-06-25 with total page 1664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nick Crossley
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761970606
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory written by Nick Crossley and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Provides brief accounts of the central ideas behind key concepts of critical social theory • Prepares students to tackle primary texts and gives them a point of reference when they find themselves stuck • Is essential reading for undergraduates in sociology and across the social sciences.
Author : Richard C Box
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317473574
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Critical Social Theory in Public Administration written by Richard C Box and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential premise of critical social theory is that contemporary society is neither democratic nor free, but that modern global capitalism creates a citizenry satiated with consumer goods, unaware of alternative ways of living. In the public sector, critical theory suggests that governing systems are influenced, if not controlled, by the wealthy and powerful, leaving public professionals to decide whether to serve those interests or the interests of a broader public. This book provides a framework for the application of critical social theory in public administration. Its goal is to encourage awareness among public administration scholars and practitioners of social conditions that tend to shape and constrain scholarship, practice, teaching, and social change. At a time when concern for public interest and a civil society have largely been displaced by the goals of economic efficiency and the "New Public Management," Critical Social Theory in Public Administration presents a viable alternative that incorporates the latest views of postmodern thinking with the central elements of critical social theory.
Author : Harry F. Dahms
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849505381
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)
Download or read book No Social Science without Critical Theory written by Harry F. Dahms and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the problematic nature of mainstream perspectives, and the growing need to reaffirm how the specific kind of critique the early Frankfurt School theorists advocated is not less, but far more important today. This book also includes chapters that offer a broad and diverse look at social science and critical theory.
Author : Ben Agger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781594512070
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Critical Social Theories written by Ben Agger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive analysis of leading social and cultural theories. This book addresses diverse perspectives, from feminism and cultural studies to postmodernism and critical theory. It includes chapters on the need for a new public sociology in the post 9/11-era - one that moves beyond both positivism and postmodernism.
Author : Harry F. Dahms
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857247972
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
Download or read book The Vitality of Critical Theory written by Harry F. Dahms and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: States that the critical theory of the Frankfurt School is as important today, if not more so, as it was at its inception during the 1930s. This title looks at the distinguishing features of this tradition and how it is critical, yet also complementary, of other approaches in the social sciences, especially in sociology.
Author : Penelope Deutscher
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154362X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Critical Theory in Critical Times written by Penelope Deutscher and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in critical times. We face a global crisis in economics and finance, a global ecological crisis, and a constant barrage of international disputes. Perhaps most dishearteningly, there seems to be little faith in our ability to address such difficult problems. However, there is also a more positive sense in which these are critical times. The world's current state of flux gives us a unique window of opportunity for shaping a new international order that will allow us to cope with current and future global crises. In Critical Theory in Critical Times, eleven of the most distinguished critical theorists offer new perspectives on recent crises and transformations of the global political and economic order. Essays from Jürgen Habermas, Seyla Benhabib, Cristina Lafont, Rainer Forst, Wendy Brown, Christoph Menke, Nancy Fraser, Rahel Jaeggi, Amy Allen, Penelope Deutscher, and Charles Mills address pressing issues including international human rights and democratic sovereignty, global neoliberalism, novel approaches to the critique of capitalism, critical theory's Eurocentric heritage, and new directions offered by critical race theory and postcolonial studies. Sharpening the conceptual tools of critical theory, the contributors to Critical Theory in Critical Times reveal new ways of expanding the diverse traditions of the Frankfurt School in response to some of the most urgent and important challenges of our times.
Author : Patricia Hill Collins
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478007095
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory written by Patricia Hill Collins and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory Patricia Hill Collins offers a set of analytical tools for those wishing to develop intersectionality's capability to theorize social inequality in ways that would facilitate social change. While intersectionality helps shed light on contemporary social issues, Collins notes that it has yet to reach its full potential as a critical social theory. She contends that for intersectionality to fully realize its power, its practitioners must critically reflect on its assumptions, epistemologies, and methods. She places intersectionality in dialog with several theoretical traditions—from the Frankfurt school to black feminist thought—to sharpen its definition and foreground its singular critical purchase, thereby providing a capacious interrogation into intersectionality's potential to reshape the world.
