Social Theory Twenty Introductory Lectures

Name: Social Theory Twenty Introductory Lectures
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ISBN: 9780521690881

ISBN-10: 0521690889

ISBN-13: 9780521690881

Edition: 2009

Authors: Hans Joas, Wolfgang Knï¿½bl, Alex Skinner

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List price: $69.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/9/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 618
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.70" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.134



Introduction



What is theory?



The classical attempt at synthesis: Talcott Parsons



Parsons on the road to normativist functionalism



Parsons and the elaboration of normativist functionalism



Neo-utilitarianism



Interpretive approaches (1): symbolic interactionism



Interpretive approaches (2): ethnomethodology



Conflict sociology and conflict theory



Habermas and critical theory



Habermas' 'theory of communicative action'



Niklas Luhmann's radicalization of functionalism



Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration and the new British sociology of power



The renewal of Parsonianism and modernization theory



Structuralism and poststructuralism



Between structuralism and theory of practice the cultural sociology of Pierre Bourdieu



French anti-structuralists (Cornelius Castoriadis, Alain Touraine and Paul Ricoeur)



Feminist social theories



A crisis of modernity? New diagnoses (Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Robert Bellah, and the debate between liberals and communitarians)



Neopragmatism



How things stand


Bibliography