Social theory : twenty introductory lectures, Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl ; translated by Alex Skinner

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Social theory : twenty introductory lectures, Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl ; translated by Alex Skinner

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twenty introductory lectures

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Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl ; translated by Alex Skinner

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• Social theory : twenty introductory lectures

Publication

• Cambridge, UK | New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009
• Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Contents

What is theory? -- The classical attempt at synthesis: Talcott Parsons -- Parsons on the road to normativist functionalism -- Parsons and the elaboration of normativist functionalism -- Neo-utilitarianism -- Interpretive approaches (1): symbolic interactionism -- Interpretive approaches (2): ethnomethodology -- Conflict sociology and conflict theory -- Habermas and critical theory -- Habermas' 'theory of communicative action' -- Niklas Luhmann's radicalization of functionalism -- Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration and the new British sociology of power -- The renewal of Parsonianism and modernization theory -- Structuralism and poststructuralism -- Between structuralism and theory of practice: the cultural sociology of Pierre Bourdieu -- French anti-structuralists (Cornelius Castoriadis, Alain Touraine and Paul Ricoeur) -- Feminist social theories -- A crisis of modernity? New diagnoses (Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Robert Bellah, and the debate between liberals and communitarians) -- Neopragmatism -- How things stand

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FIEb17209219

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24 cm.

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xii, 605 pages

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9780521690881

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u296778

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(OCoLC)286434685