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Handbook of Social Theory, Paperback / softback Book

Handbook of Social Theory Paperback / softback

Edited by George Ritzer, Barry Smart

Paperback / softback

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This book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the roots, current debates and future development of social theory.

It draws together a team of outstanding international scholars and presents an authoritative and panoramic critical survey of the field.

The volume is divided into three parts. The first part examines the classical tradition. Included here are critical discussions of Comte, Spencer, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead, Freud, Mannheim and classical feminist thought.

This part conveys the classical tradition as a living resource in social theory, it demonstrates not only the critical significance of classical writings, but their continuing relevance. The second part moves on to examine the terrain of contemporary social theory. The contributions discuss the significance and strengths and weaknesses of structural functionalism, recent Marxian theory, critical theory, symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, ethnomethodology, exchange theory, rational choice, contemporary feminism, multiculturalism, postmodernism, the thought of Foucault and Habermas, and figurational sociology. The reader gains a comprehensive and informed picture of the key issues and central figures of the day. The final part ranges over the key debates in current social theory.

Questions relating to positivism, metatheorizing, cultural studies, consumption, sexualities, the body, globalism, nationalism, socialism, knowledge societies, ethics and morality, as well as post-social relations are fully discussed.

The dilemmas and promise of contemporary social theory are revealed with pinpoint accuracy.

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  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:552 pages
  • Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
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  • ISBN:9780761941873
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  • Out of stock

  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:552 pages
  • Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
  • Publication Date:
  • Category:
  • ISBN:9780761941873