ISBN:
0-7456-0361-0
,
0-7456-0362-9
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 310 Seiten
Edition:
Reprinted
Keywords:
Soziologie Theorie
;
Methodologie
;
Sozialgeschichte
;
Strukturalismus
;
Postmoderne
Abstract:
In this book Anthony Giddens addresses a range of issues concerning current developments in social theory, relating them to the prospects for sociology in the closing decades of the twentieth century. Composed of closely integrated papers, all written over the past few years, the book includes seven essays not previously published, plus two have not appeared in English before. In assessing the likely future evolution of sociology in particular, and the social sciences in general, the author both draws upon ideas established in his more abstract theoretical writings and examines critically competing traditions of thought.
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; 1 What do sociologists do?; 2 Nine theses on the future of sociology; 3 The social sciences and philosophy - trends in recent social theory; 4 Structuralism, post-structuralism and the production of culture; 5 Erving Goffman as a systematic social theorist; 6 Time and social organization; 7 Nation-states and violence; 8 Social theory and problems of macroeconomics; 9 Out of the Orrery: E. P. Thompson on consciousness and history; 10 Reason without revolution? Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action; 11 Alvin Gouldner and the intellectuals; 12 The perils of punditry: Gorz and the end of the working class. - Index
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