ISBN:
9780415525725
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (911 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Introduction to Contemporary Social Theory
DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In this comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert examine the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to globalization and beyond. When first published, the book's wide range set new standards for introductory textbooks - social theorists discussed include Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu, Julia Kristeva, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek, Manuel Castells, Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Giorgio Agamben and Manuel De
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. The Textures of Society; What is society?; Society and social theory; Coping with climate change: Anthony Giddens; Key themes in contemporary social theory; Further questions; Further reading; 2. The Contemporary Relevance of the Classics; The contradictions of modernity: Marx; Modernity as iron cage: Weber; Modernity as moral bonds: Durkheim; Trauma, tragedy and Thanatos: Freud; Summary points; Further questions; Further reading; 3. The Frankfurt School
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Horkheimer and Adorno: Dialectic of EnlightenmentFreudian revolution: the uses of psychoanalysis; Fromm: fear of freedom; Adorno: The Authoritarian Personality, anti-Semitism and the psychodynamics of modernity; Written in the stars: Adorno on astrology; Marcuse: Eros, or one-dimensional futures?; Criticisms of Marcuse; Summary points; Further questions; Further reading; 4. American Pragmatisms; William James: experience and the social self; Pragmatism and Darwin's The Origin of the Species; The foundations of pragmatist social theory today
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Charles Sanders Peirce: semiotics and the unity of egoThe Progressive Era: John Dewey and Jane Addams; George Herbert Mead: mind, self and society; Herbert Blumer: Symbolic Interactionism; Pragmatism's limits and prospects: Habermas and Rorty; Summary points; Further questions; Further reading; 5. Structuralism; Saussure and structural linguistics; Criticisms of Saussure; The Raw and The Cooked: Lévi-Strauss and structural anthropology; Roland Barthes: structuralist semiology and popular culture; Foucault: knowledge, social order and power; Society and disciplined bodies
Description / Table of Contents:
The limits of structuralism: Foucault's History of SexualityGovernmentality; Criticisms of Foucault; Summary points; Further questions; Further reading; 6. Structures, Functions and Culture; Talcott Parsons: The Structure of Social Action; The Social System: Parsons and the AGIL paradigm; Robert K. Merton: social theory and social structures; Jeffery C. Alexander: theoretical logic of cultural sociology; Summary points; Further questions; Further reading; 7. Post-structuralism; Lacan: the mirror stage and imaginary
Description / Table of Contents:
Lacan's reformulation of structuralism: language, symbolic order and the unconsciousAfter Lacan: Althusser and society as interpellation; Žižek: beyond interpellation; Appraisal of Lacan; Derrida: difference and deconstruction; Rereading psychoanalysis: Derrida's critique of Lacan; Appraisal of Derrida; Post-structuralism and post-colonial theory: Bhabha's The Location of Culture; Summary points; Further questions; Further reading; 8. The Interaction Order; David Riesman: conformity and the American character; Erving Goffman: impression management and the interaction order
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Ethnomethodologies: Aaron Cicourel and Harold Garfinkel
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
