社会理論ハンドブック<br>Handbook of Social Theory

社会理論ハンドブック
Handbook of Social Theory

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 552 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780761958406
  • DDC分類 300.1

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2001.

Full Description


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.

Contents

Introduction - George Ritzer and Barry SmartTheorists, Theories and TheorizingPART ONE: CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORYModernity, Enlightenment, Revolution and Romanticism - John RundellCreating Social TheoryThe Origins of Positivism - Jonathan H TurnerThe Contributions of Auguste Comte and Herbert SpencerMaintaining Marx - Gregor McLennanMax Weber - Sam WhimsterWork and InterpretationThe Continuing Relevance of Georg Simmel - Birgitta NedelmannStaking Out Anew the Field of SociologyDurkheim's Project for a Sociological Science - Mike GaneThe Emergence of the New - Hans JoasMead's Theory and Its Contemporary PotentialKarl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge - David Kettler and Volker MejaPsychoanalysis and Sociology - John O'NeillFrom Freudo-Marxism to Freudo-FeminismClassical Feminist Social Theory - Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-BrantleyPART TWO: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORYFunctional, Conflict and Neofunctional Theories - Mark AbrahamsonTalcott Parsons - Robert J HoltonConservative Apologist or Irreplaceable Icon?Nietzsche - Robert J AntonioSocial Theory in the Twilight of the MillenniumCritical Theory - Craig Calhoun and Joseph KaraganisJ[um]urgen Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action - Richard Harvey Brown and Douglas GoodmanAn Incomplete ProjectSymbolic Interactionism at the End of the Century - Kent L Sandstrom, Daniel D Martin and Gary Alan FinePhenomenology and Social Theory - Harvie FergusonFundamentals of Ethnomethodology - Wes SharrockTheories of Social Exchange and Exchange Networks - Linda D MolmSociological Rational Choice - Douglas D HeckathornContemporary Feminist Theory - Mary F RogersMulticulturalism - Charles LemertSocial Theory and the Postmodern - Stephen CrookMichel Foucault - Mitchell Dean`A Man in Danger'The Macro/Micro Problem and the Problem of Structure and Agency - Barry BarnesNorbert Elias and Process Sociology - Robert van KriekenPositivism in the Twentieth Century - Peter HalfpennyMetatheorizing in Sociology - Shanyang ZhaoCultural Studies and Social Theory - Douglas KellnerA Critical InterventionTheories of Consumption - George Ritzer, Douglas Goodman and Wendy WiedenhoftSexualities - Anthony ElliottSocial Theory and the Crisis of IdentityThe Embodied Foundations of Social Theory - Chris ShillingGlobalization Theory 2000+ - Roland RobertsonMajor ProblematicsNationalism - Gerard DelantyBetween Nation and StateSocialism - Peter BeilharzModern Hopes, Postmodern ShadowsModern Societies as Knowledge Societies - Nico StehrSociology, Morality and Ethics - Barry SmartOn Being with OthersPostsocial Relations - Karin Knorr CetinaTheorizing Sociality in a Post-social Environment