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Social theory for today : making sense of social worlds /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Law, Alex
Format: Printed Book
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the narcissism of minor differences
  • Social theory and crisis
  • Positivist turn : Auguste Comte
  • Marx's turn
  • Nietzsche's turn : Max Weber and Georg Simmel
  • Ideological turn : Antonio Gramsci and Georg Lukacs
  • Reflexive turn : Otto Neurath and empirical sociology
  • Modernist turn : Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer
  • Critical turn : The Frankfurt School
  • Negative turn : Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas
  • Quotidian turn : Henri Lefebvre
  • Corporeal turn : Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Pragmatic turn : social theory in the US
  • Cultural turn : social theory in France and Britain
  • Relational turn : Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu
  • Conclusion