Modern social theory : an introduction
"This new book provides a comprehensive introduction to core topics, schools, and debates in modern social theory." "Written by leading specialists in the field, the text provides up-to-date guidance on the full sweep of the modern sociological imagination, from the classical legacies of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Parsons to the work of cutting-edge contemporary theorists. Separate chapters discuss functionalism and its critics, interpretive and interactionist theory, historical social theory, Western Marxism, psychoanalytic social theory, structuralism and post-structuralism, structure and agency, feminist social theory, postmodernism and its critics, and theories of globalization." "Modern Social Theory is an ideal text for students of sociology and cultural studies following courses in the history and theory of social analysis."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2005
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005