Handbook of Social Theory

Author George Ritzer - Barry Smart

Publisher Sage UK

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George Ritzer - Barry Smart

George Ritzer is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. He received the 2000 Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award from the American Sociological Association and has chaired its sections on Theoretical Sociology and Organizations and Occupations. Among his most recent books are The McDonaldization of Society, New Century Edition, Enchanting a Disenchanted World , and, with Barry Smart, The Handbook of Social Theory.

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Sage UK

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Copyright

2001

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9781847876737

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eBook

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College Freshman - College Senior

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This title is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the roots, current debates and future development of social theory. It draws together a team of outstanding international scholars, and presents an authoritative and panoramic critical survey of the field.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
List of Contributors.
1: Introduction: Theorists, Theories and Theorizing.
Classical Social Theory.
2: Modernity, Enlightenment, Revolution and Romanticism: Creating Social Theory.
3: The Origins of Positivism: The Contributions of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer.
4: Maintaining Marx.
5: Max Weber: Work and Interpretation.
6: The Continuing Relevance of Georg Simmel: Staking Out Anew the Field of Sociology.
7: Durkheim’s Project for a Sociological Science.
8: The Emergence of the New: Mead’s Theory and Its Contemporary Potential.
9: Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge.
10: Psychoanalysis and Sociology: From Freudo-Marxism to Freudo-Feminism.
11: Classical Feminist Social Theory.
Contemporary Social Theory.
12: Functional, Conflict and Neofunctional Theories.
13: Talcott Parsons: Conservative Apologist or Irreplaceable Icon?.
14: Nietzsche: Social Theory in the Twilight of the Millennium.
15: Critical Theory.
16: Jürgen Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action: An Incomplete Project.
17: Symbolic Interactionism at the End of the Century.
18: Phenomenology and Social Theory.
19: Fundamentals of Ethnomethodology.
20: Theories of Social Exchange and Exchange Networks.
21: Sociological Rational Choice.
22: Contemporary Feminist Theory.
23: Multiculturalism.
24: Social Theory and the Postmodern.
25: Michel Foucault: A Man in Danger.
26: The Macro/Micro Problem and the Problem of Structure and Agency.
27: Norbert Elias and Process Sociology.
Issues in Social Theory.
28: Positivism in the Twentieth Century.
29: Metatheorizing in Sociology.
30: Cultural Studies and Social Theory: A Critical Intervention.
31: Theories of Consumption.
32: Sexualities: Social Theory and the Crisis of Identity.
33: The Embodied Foundations of Social Theory.
34: Globalization Theory 2000+: Major Problematics.
35: Nationalism: Between Nation and State.
36: Socialism: Modern Hopes, Postmodern
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