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Social theory for beginners /
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: who is this book for and how do I use it?
- What is social theory?
- Where did social theory come from?
- Emile Durkheim and the coming of industrial society
- Karl Marx, capitalism and revolution
- Max Weber, rational capitalism and social action
- Talcott Parsons, functionalism and the social system
- Social interactionism and the real lives of social actors
- Western Marxism, Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt School
- Language, structure, meaning
- Discourse and power: Post-structuralist social theory
- Feminist social theory
- Reviving theories of modernity: Habermas, Giddens and Bourdieu
- Theories of modernity and post-modernity
- Reflexive modernisation: the global dimension and cultural theory
- The boundary problem in contemporary social theory.