Contested Knowledge Social Theory Today

Name: Contested Knowledge Social Theory Today
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ISBN: 9781405170017

ISBN-10: 1405170018

ISBN-13: 9781405170017

Edition: 4th 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Steven Seidman

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This fourth edition includes an exploration of globalization and a new section on the theories of global and world order. It provides a thoughtful and rigorous, yet highly accessible and reader-friendly account of social theory. The author combines social analysis and moral advocacy, to demonstrate how social theory can and does - and sometimes doesn't - work within the public and political sphere.

Book details

List price: $61.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Steven Seidman has lectured widely in the United States and Europe on the topic of sexuality. He is the author of many books, including Romantic Longings: Love in America, 1830-1980, Embattled Eros: Sexual Ethics and Politics in America, Queer Theory/Sociology, and Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life. He currently teaches sociology at the State University of New York at Albany.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Rise of the Classical Tradition:Introduction



The Idea of a Science of Society: The Enlightenment and Auguste Comte



The Revolutionary Theory of




The Promise of Sociology




The Ironic Social Theory of



Afterword



Rethinking the Classical Tradition: American Sociology:Introduction



The Grand Theory of Talcott Parsons and of




The Scientific Theory of




The Moral Sociology of



Afterword



Rethinking the Classical Tradition: European Theory:Introduction



The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas



Stuart Hall and British Cultural Studies



The Critical Sociology of



Afterword



Revisions and Revolts: The Postmodern Turn:Introduction



Post-Structural Theory




Michel Foucault's Disciplinary Society



Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology of Postmodernity


Afterword



Revisions and Revolts: Identity Politics and Theory:Introduction



Feminist and Gender Theory



Critical Race Theory



Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Theory



Colonial Discourse Studies


Afterword



Revisions and Revolts: Theories of World Order:Introduction



From Nation to Global Order




Global Capitalism




The Return of Empire?



Epilogue: Social Theory Today


Index