| Description |
xi, 552 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : theorists, theories and theorizing / George Ritzer and Barry Smart -- Modernity, enlightenment, revolution and romanticism : creating social theory / John Rundell -- The origins of positivism : the contributions of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer / Jonathan H. Turner -- Maintaining Marx / Gregor McLennan -- Max Weber : work and interpretation / Sam Whimster -- The continuing relevance of Georg Simmel : staking out anew the field of sociology / Birgitta Nedelmann -- Durkheim's Project for a sociological science / Mike Gane -- The emergence of the new : Mead's Theory and its contemporary potential / Hans Joas -- Karl Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge / David Kettler and Volker Meja -- Psychoanalysis and sociology : from Freudo-marxism to Freudo-feminism / John O'Neill -- Classical feminist social theory / Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley. |
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Functional, conflict and neofunctional theories / Mark Abrahamson -- Talcott Parsons : conservative apologist or irreplaceable icon? / Robert J. Holton -- Nietzsche : social theory in the twilight of the millennium / Robert J. Antonio -- Critical theory / Craig Calhoun and Joseph Karaganis -- Jürgen Habermas' Theory of communicative action : an incomplete project / Richard Harvey Brown and Douglas Goodman -- Symbolic interactionism at the end of the century / Kent L. Sandstrom, Daniel D. Martin and Gary Alan Fine -- Phenomenology and social theory / Harvie Ferguson -- Fundamentals of ethnomethodology / Wes Sharrock -- Theories of social exchange and exchange networks / Linda D. Molm -- Sociological rational choice / Douglas D. Heckathorn -- Contemporary feminist theory / Mary F. Rogers -- Multiculturalism / Charles Lemert -- Social theory and the postmodern / Stephen Crook -- Michel Foucault : 'a man in danger' / Mitchell Dean. |
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The macro/micro problem and the problem of structure and agency / Barry Barnes -- Norbert Elias and process sociology / Robert van Krieken -- Positivism in the twentieth century / Peter Halfpenny -- Metatheorizing in sociology / Shanyang Zhao -- Cultural studies and social theory : a critical intervention / Douglas Kellner -- Theories of consumption / George Ritzer, Douglas Goodman and Wendy Wiedenhoft -- Sexualities : social theory and the crisis of identity / Anthony Elliott -- The embodied foundations of social theory / Chris Shilling -- Globalization theory 2000+ : major problematics / Roland Robertson -- Nationalism : between nation and state / Gerard Delanty -- Socialism : modern hopes, postmodern shadows / Peter Beilharz. |
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Modern societies as knowledge societies / Nico Stehr -- Sociology, morality and ethics : on being with others / Barry Smart -- Postsocial relations : theorizing sociality in a postsocial environment / Karin Knorr Cetina. |
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Social Sciences. (DNLM)D012942
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Sociology. (DNLM)D012961
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70.02 philosophy and theory of the social sciences. (NL-LeOCL)07760119X
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01122940
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Soziologische Theorie (DE-588)4077628-1
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Einführung (DE-588)4151278-9
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Aufsatzsammlung (DE-588)4143413-4
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Soziologie (DE-588)4077624-4
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Sociologie.
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Sociale wetenschappen.
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Theorieën.
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Soziologie.
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Soziologie -- Theorie -- Handbuch.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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Einführung.
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Textbooks (form) (NL-LeOCL)088143252
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| Added Author |
Smart, Barry.
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Ritzer, George.
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| ISBN |
0761958401 (hbk.) |
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9780761958406 (hbk.) |
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9780761941873 |
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0761941878 |
| Standard No. |
9780761958406 |
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