Social Theory

  • Social Theory: Central Issues in Sociology
    By John Scott

    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 ...

  • Social Theory: Central Issues in Sociology
    By John Scott

    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.

  • Social Theory: A guide to central thinkers
    By Peter Beilharz

    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 ...

  • Social Theory: Roots and Branches : Readings
    By Peter Kivisto

    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 .

  • Social Theory: Central Issues in Sociology
    By John Scott

    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.

  • Social Theory: A Textbook
    By Mads P. Sørensen, Carsten Bagge Laustsen, Lars Thorup Larsen

    The book includes sociology’s "founding fathers", major 20th-century thinkers and recent voices such as Butler and Zizek.

  • Social Theory: An Introduction
    By Jonathan Joseph

    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 .

  • Social Theory: The Multicultural, Global, and Classic Readings
    By Charles Lemert

    ... 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 ...

  • Social Theory: Twenty Introductory Lectures
    By Hans Joas, Wolfgang Knöbl

    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 ...

  • Social Theory: A Textbook
    By Mads P. Sørensen, Carsten Bagge Laustsen, Lars Thorup Larsen

    The book includes sociology’s "founding fathers", major 20th-century thinkers and recent voices such as Butler and Zizek.

  • Social Theory: A New Introduction
    By Mark Murphy

    The book also provides useful information on key theoretical movements such as feminism, Marxism, and post-structuralism, as well as biographies of key theorists.

  • Social Theory: Classical and Contemporary – A Critical Perspective
    By Berch Berberoglu

    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 ...

  • Social Theory: Ideas in Profile
    By William Outhwaite

    We move from the the work of Rousseau to the still powerful insights of Marx and on to the great sociologists, Weber and Durkheim.

  • Social Theory: A New Introduction
    By Mark Murphy

    The book also provides useful information on key theoretical movements such as feminism, Marxism, and post-structuralism, as well as biographies of key theorists.

  • Social Theory: A Historical Introduction
    By Alex Callinicos

    A concluding chapter considers the contemporary condition of social theory including the analysis of "late modernity" by Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens.

  • Social Theory: Classical and Contemporary a Critical Perspective
    By Berch Berberoglu

    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.

  • Social Theory: A Historical Introduction
    By Alex Callincos

    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.

  • Social Theory: Classical and Contemporary a Critical Perspective
    By Berch Berberoglu

    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
    By John Wilson

    Social Theory

  • Social Theory: A Reader
    By Jonathan Joseph

    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, ...