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Author |
: Jessica Kuper |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 2014-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317651666 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317651669 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Key Thinkers, Past and Present (RLE Social Theory) by : Jessica Kuper
This volume provides a fascinating perspective on the social sciences through its examination of the leading proponents, their ideas and careers. It includes useful suggestions for further reading. All the great names in the history of the subject are here – Freud, Marx, Weber, Adam Smith and so on – along with many less prominent but nevertheless important thinkers.
Author |
: Jessica Kuper |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2014-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317651659 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317651650 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Key Thinkers, Past and Present (RLE Social Theory) by : Jessica Kuper
This volume provides a fascinating perspective on the social sciences through its examination of the leading proponents, their ideas and careers. It includes useful suggestions for further reading. All the great names in the history of the subject are here – Freud, Marx, Weber, Adam Smith and so on – along with many less prominent but nevertheless important thinkers.
Author |
: Rob Stones |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 478 |
Release |
: 2017-09-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781349931668 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1349931667 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Key Sociological Thinkers by : Rob Stones
The third edition of this popular and established core textbook provides an invaluable guide to 24 of the most influential thinkers in Sociology. Written by leading academics in the field, Key Sociological Thinkers provides a clear and contextualised introduction to classical and contemporary theory. Each chapter offers an insightful assessment of a different theorist, exploring their lives, works and legacies, and in a much-valued 'Seeing Things Differently' section authors demonstrate how each thinker's ideas can be used to illuminate aspects of social life in new ways. With frameworks for deep learning around group discussion, this continues be an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate modules on sociological and social theory. New to this Edition: - Four new chapters, on Mead, Du Bois, Latour and Alexander - Five chapters by new authors on existing key thinkers: Durkheim, Merton, Goffman, Bourdieu, and Giddens - A major new introduction - An updated, structured and annotated 'Further Reading' section for each thinker - Extended accounts of 13 additional thinkers who have influenced, or been influenced by, the key thinkers
Author |
: Steven Seidman |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 371 |
Release |
: 2016-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781119167587 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1119167582 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contested Knowledge by : Steven Seidman
In the sixth edition of Contested Knowledge, social theorist Steven Seidman presents the latest topics in social theory and addresses the current shift of 'universalist theorists' to networks of clustered debates. Responds to current issues, debates, and new social movements Reviews sociological theory from a contemporary perspective Reveals how the universal theorist and the era of rival schools has been replaced by networks of clustered debates that are relatively 'autonomous' and interdisciplinary Features updates and in-depth discussions of the newest clustered debates in social theory—intimacy, postcolonial nationalism, and the concept of 'the other' Challenges social scientists to renew their commitment to the important moral and political role social knowledge plays in public life
Author |
: Hans Joas |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691150840 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691150842 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis War in Social Thought by : Hans Joas
While focusing on social thought, this book draws on many disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, and political science. It demonstrates the profound difficulties social thinkers - including liberals, socialists, and those intellectuals who could be regarded as the sociologists - had in coming to terms with the phenomenon of war.
Author |
: Jason L. Powell |
Publisher |
: Nova Science Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1628084537 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781628084535 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Key Thinkers in Social Science by : Jason L. Powell
This book explores the relevance of key thinkers in social science from historical traditions to contemporary philosophers and the nature of modern society and how theories and concepts can be used to shed light on trends and inequalities around the world in which these thinkers lived. History is fast moving. The book attempts to explore the works of Weber, Durkheim, and Marx in the first three chapters to illustrate how their varieties of social science gave intimation about the social world in terms of social disorder and the remedies and actions needed to bring about social justice. The latter three chapters explore arguably the three most influential thinkers in social science of the 20th Century: Parsons, Foucault and Habermas. These thinkers in different ways gave a number of diagnoses of modern society. Some arguing for more balance between individuals and society as best regulated by institutions such as the family (Parsons), others argued for a more sophisticated understanding of power and how it plays out for social groups in modern society (Foucault) whilst for others critical social scientists should be focusing on defending the enlightenment ideals of reason and rationality as we go further into the 21st century. The book raises questions and provides many examples to stimulate thoughtful reflection about all our yesterdays, todays and tomorrows.
Author |
: Max Horkheimer |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 1972-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780826400833 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0826400833 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Critical Theory by : Max Horkheimer
These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and the to much current social-philosophical thought, including the work of Herbert Marcuse. Apart from their historical significance and even from their scholarly eminence, these essays contain an immediate relevance only now becoming fully recognized.
Author |
: Mike Gane |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2014-08-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317652472 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317652479 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Baudrillard (RLE Social Theory) by : Mike Gane
Baudrillard is widely recognised as a powerful new force in cultural and social criticism, and is often referred to as the ‘High Priest of Postmodernism’. This study presents a detached assessment of his social thought and his reputation, challenging the way his work has been received in postmodernism and proposing a new reading of his contribution to social theory. Using many sources currently available only in French, Mike Gane provides the keys to understanding Baudrillard’s project and reveals the extent and scope of Baudrillard’s challenge to modern social theory and cultural criticism. He looks at the sources of Baudrillard’s ideas, analysing how Baudrillard has turned these sources against themselves. He describes Baudrillard’s dramatic encounter with critical Marxist theory and psychoanalysis, showing how Baudrillard’s post-Marxist writings define, through the exploration of fatal theory, a new episode in cultural history: a period of cultural implosion. This balanced account of Baudrillard’s social theory emphasises the originality of his work and argues that his significance can only be understood by grasping the paradoxes of his project – Baudrillard’s work is poetic, yet, at the same time, critical and fatal.
Author |
: Christian Fuchs |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2021-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000432909 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000432904 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Foundations of Critical Theory by : Christian Fuchs
This second volume of Christian Fuchs’ Media, Communication and Society book series outlines key concepts and contemporary debates in critical theory. The book explores the foundations of a Marxist-Humanist critical theory of society, clarifying and updating key concepts in critical theory – such as the dialectic, critique, alienation, class, capitalism, ideology, and racial capitalism. In doing so, the book engages with and further develops elements from the works of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, David Harvey, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, C.L.R. James, Adolph L. Reed Jr., and Cornel West. Written for a broad audience of students and scholars, this book is an essential guide for readers who are interested in how to think critically from perspectives such as media and communication studies, sociology, philosophy, political economy, and political science.
Author |
: Tony Simmons |
Publisher |
: Fernwood Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 602 |
Release |
: 2020-05-21T00:00:00Z |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781773633183 |
ISBN-13 |
: 177363318X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Restless Ideas by : Tony Simmons
How do we make sense of the rise of political strongmen like Trump and Erdoğan, or the increase in hate crimes and terrorism? How can we understand Brexit and xenophobic, anti-immigrant sentiments and policies? More importantly, what can we do to make it all stop? In Restless Ideas, Tony Simmons illustrates how social theory provides us with the skills for more informed observation, analysis and empathic understanding of social behaviour and social interaction. Social theory deepens our understanding of the world around us by empowering us to become practical theorists in our own lives. Simmons traces the roots of contemporary social theory back to the works of the early structural functionalists, systems theorists, conflict theorists, symbolic interactionists, and ethnomethodologists, and incorporates contemporary social thinkers theorizing from the margins who are redefining the canon. Later chapters focus on the current influence of structuration theory, feminist and queer theory, Indigenous theory, third wave critical theory, postmodernism and poststructuralism, and liquid and late modernity theories and globalization theories.