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Social theory : classical and contemporary : a critical perspective /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Classical social theory
- Hegel on dialectics, the state, and society
- Marx and Engels on social class and class struggle
- Durkheim on society and social order
- Weber on bureaucracy, power, and social status
- Pareto, Mosca, and Michels on elites and masses
- Simmel on social relations and group affiliations
- Cooley and mead on human nature and society
- Freud on the development of society and civilization
- Adams and early women social theorists
- Veblen on the leisure class and conspicuous consumption
- Mannheim on ideology and utopia
- Gramsci and Lenin on ideology, the state, and revolution
- Kollontai on class, gender, and patriarchy
- Du Bois and Frazier on race, class, and social emancipation
- Contemporary social theory
- Parsons, Merton, and functionalist theory
- Mills on the power elite
- Domhoff on the power structure and the governing class
- Althusser, Poulantzas, and Miliband on politics and the state
- Trimberger, Block, and Skocpol and neo-weberian theorizing
- Homans on social exchange
- The Frankfurt school of critical theory
- Goffman and Garfinkel on dramaturgy, ethnomethodology, and everyday life
- Wilson and Willie on race, class, and poverty
- Feminist theory : yesterday and today
- Wallerstein and world-systems theory
- Theories of globalization
- Therborn and Szymanski on contemporary marxist theory
- Foucault on the diffusion of power
- Harvey and Callinicos on postmodernism and its critique
- Social movements and transformation
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author.