{"product_id":"social-theory-twenty-introductory-lectures-hardback-9780521870634","title":"Social Theory; Twenty Introductory Lectures (Hardback) 9780521870634","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSocial Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTwenty Introductory Lectures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn unrivalled overview of social theory and its development from 1945 to the present day.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHans Joas (Author), Wolfgang Knöbl (Author), Alex Skinner (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521870634, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 July 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e618 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 3.3 cm, 1.1 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl's Social Theory: Twenty Introductory Lectures is a remarkable book. There is nothing that I know that comes anywhere near to it in the contemporary landscape of social theory. [It] is, in addition to other things, an intellectually heavyweight textbook for graduate students and professors, providing a summation of, and critical commentary on, virtually all the major and minor currents in social theory since the middle of the twentieth century.' Rob Stones, Journal of Classical Sociology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSocial theory is the theoretical core of the social sciences, clearly distinguishable from political theory and cultural analysis. This book offers a unique overview of the development of social theory from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the present day. Spanning the literature in English, French and German, it provides an excellent background to the most important social theorists and theories in contemporary sociological thought, with crisp summaries of the main books, arguments and controversies. It also deals with newly emerging schools from rational choice to symbolic interactionism, with new ambitious approaches (Habermas, Luhmann, Giddens, Bourdieu), structuralism and antistructuralism, critical revisions of modernization theory, feminism and neopragmatism. Written by two of the world's leading sociologists and based on their extensive academic teaching, this unrivalled work is ideal both for students in the social sciences and humanities and for anyone interested in contemporary theoretical debates.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. What is theory?\u003cbr\u003e 2. The classical attempt at synthesis: Talcott Parsons\u003cbr\u003e 3. Parsons on the road to normativist functionalism\u003cbr\u003e 4. Parsons and the elaboration of normativist functionalism\u003cbr\u003e 5. Neo-utilitarianism\u003cbr\u003e 6. Interpretive approaches (1): symbolic interactionism\u003cbr\u003e 7. Interpretive approaches (2): ethnomethodology\u003cbr\u003e 8. Conflict sociology and conflict theory\u003cbr\u003e 9. Habermas and critical theory\u003cbr\u003e 10. Habermas' 'theory of communicative action'\u003cbr\u003e 11. Niklas Luhmann's radicalization of functionalism\u003cbr\u003e 12. Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration and the new British sociology of power\u003cbr\u003e 13. The renewal of Parsonianism and modernization theory\u003cbr\u003e 14. Structuralism and poststructuralism\u003cbr\u003e 15. Between structuralism and theory of practice: the cultural sociology of Pierre Bourdieu\u003cbr\u003e 16. French anti-structuralists (Cornelius Castoriadis, Alain Touraine and Paul Ricoeur)\u003cbr\u003e 17. Feminist social theories\u003cbr\u003e 18. A crisis of modernity? New diagnoses (Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Robert Bellah, and the debate between liberals and communitarians)\u003cbr\u003e 19. Neopragmatism\u003cbr\u003e 20. How things stand\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political science \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political science \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20science%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BJPA%5D%22\"\u003eJPA\u003c\/a\u003e], Social theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20theory%20%5BJHBA%5D%22\"\u003eJHBA\u003c\/a\u003e], History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e], Social \u0026amp; political philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; political philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20political%20philosophy%20%5BHPS%5D%22\"\u003eHPS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265301500184,"sku":"9780521870634","price":86.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521870634i.jpg?v=1692021514","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/social-theory-twenty-introductory-lectures-hardback-9780521870634","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}