Versions of organicism influenced by Spencer were produced in Germany almost simultaneously by Pavel Lilienfeld ( 1873-81 , 1898 ) and Albert Schaffle ( 1875-80 , 1903 ) . Lilienfeld , who spent his working life in Germany ...
The book will become a key resource for students and scholars alike." - Barry Smart, Portsmouth University This is a comprehensive, critical review of social theory that places leading contributions in their larger context.
One consequence of this was that what became two of the key texts accorded status by the English-speaking world in the 1960s and 1970s-Marcuse's One Dimensional Man (1964) and Adorno's and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment ...
53 Philosophy and Critical Theory Herbert Marcuse Herbert Marcuse ( 1898–1979 ) was one of the key figures associated with the critical theory developed at the Frankfurt School between World Wars I and II .
The Active Society. New York. Evans-Pritchard, Edward 1937. Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Evans-Pritchard, Edward 1940. The Nuer. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Evans-Pritchard, Edward 1948.
The book includes sociology’s "founding fathers", major 20th-century thinkers and recent voices such as Butler and Zizek.
Alcoff , L. ( 1990 ) Feminist Politics and Foucault : The Limits to a Collaboration ' , in A. Dallery and C. Scott ( eds ) , Crises in ... Anderson , P. ( 1976 ) “ The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci ' , New Left Review , 100 : 5-81 .
... when as yet there was not a rift in the clouds overhanging her people: “Yes, Ethiopia shall stretch Her bleeding hands ... Fannie Jackson Coppin, the teacher and organizer, pre-eminent among women of whatever country or race in ...
Originallyfrom South Africa, he arrivedin England inthelate 1940s, making a name for himself chiefly through the analysis ofethnic conflicts. In Key Problems of Sociological Theory, Rex criticized Parsons primarily for his onesided ...
The book includes sociology’s "founding fathers", major 20th-century thinkers and recent voices such as Butler and Zizek.
The book also provides useful information on key theoretical movements such as feminism, Marxism, and post-structuralism, as well as biographies of key theorists.
Willie, The Caste and Class Controversy on Race and Poverty, 82. Willie, The Caste and Class Controversy on Race and Poverty, 86. Willie, The Caste and Class Controversy on Race and Poverty, 55. Willie, The Caste and Class Controversy ...
We move from the the work of Rousseau to the still powerful insights of Marx and on to the great sociologists, Weber and Durkheim.
The book also provides useful information on key theoretical movements such as feminism, Marxism, and post-structuralism, as well as biographies of key theorists.
A concluding chapter considers the contemporary condition of social theory including the analysis of "late modernity" by Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens.
The author's concise presentation allows students and instructors to focus on central themes. The text lets theorists speak for themselves, presenting key passages from each theorist's corpus, bringing theory to life.
In this wide-ranging historical introduction to social theory, Alex Callinicos explores the controversies over modernity and examines the connections between social theory and modern philosophy, political economy and evolutionary biology.
Preface -- Introduction -- Classical social theory -- Hegel on dialectics, the state, and society -- Marx and Engels on social class and class struggle -- Durkheim on society and social order -- Weber on bureaucracy, power, and social ...
Social Theory
As well as a general introduction to the concept of social theory, each section is prefaced by an introduction to the relevant theorist(s) and each reading is accompanied by a short explanatory introduction.Including a broad range of texts, ...