What Is Social Theory? The Philosophical Debates

Name: What Is Social Theory? The Philosophical Debates
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ISBN: 9780631209553

ISBN-10: 0631209557

ISBN-13: 9780631209553

Edition: 1998

Authors: Alan Sica, Alan Sica

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An innovative and wide ranging collection of original essays by today's leading social theorists aiming to clarify the current uses being made of philosophical ideas in the creation of social thought.

Book details

List price: $51.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/19/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.13" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.



List of Contributors


Introduction: Philosophy's Tutelage of Social Theory: "A Parody of Profundity"?




Mapping Postmodern Social Theory




A Thesaurus of Experience: Maurice Natanson, Phenomenology, and Social Theory




From Content to Context: A Social Epistemology of the Structure-Agency Craze




Making Normative Soup with Non-normative Bones




Criteria for a Theory of Knowledge




Examples, Submerged Statements, and the Neglected Application of Philosophy to Social Theory




Loosening the Chains of Philosophical Reductionism




Social Order and Emergent Rationality




Theoretical Models: Sociology's Missing Links




Sociological Models




Culture and Social Structure



Name Index


Subject Index