Contemporary social and sociological theory : visualizing social worlds / Kenneth Allan.
Allan, Kenneth, 1951-
2011
HM585 .A52 2011 (Mapit)
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Title Contemporary social and sociological theory : visualizing social worlds / Kenneth Allan.
Author Allan, Kenneth, 1951-
Edition 2nd ed.
ISBN 9781412978200 (pbk.)
1412978203
Imprint Los Angeles : SAGE, ©2011.
Language English
Description xx, 437 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Call Number HM585 .A52 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 301.01
Summary Written in a conversational style that conveys the author's enthusiam for theory, this updated edition of Kenneth Allan's acclaimed text appeals to the reader to consider the "theoretical you" as an individual in 21st-century society.
Filled with examples drawn from daily life, this edition highlights diversity in contemporary society, exploring theories of race, gender, and sexuality that address today's most important social concerns. Students will learn to "think theoretically" and apply theory to their own lives.
Contemporary Social and Sociological Theory, Second Edition, is ideal as a core text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in sociology, such as Contemporary Sociological Theory, Social Theory, and Postmodernism. --Book Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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In the beginning there was modernity
Defining moments in twentieth-century theory : Talcott Parsons and the Frankfurt School
Symbolic interaction : Herbert Blumer (1900-1987)
Organizing ordinary life : Harold Garfinkel (1917- )
Performing the self : Erving Goffman (1922-1982)
Social exchanges : George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins
Structures of racial and gender inequality : William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz
Structuring class : Pierre Bourdieu (1960-2002)
Global capitalism : Immanuel Wallerstein (1930- )
The network society : Manuel Castells (1942- )
Modernity and reason : Jürgen Habermas (1929- )
Runaway modernity : Anthony Giddens (1938- )
Defining the possible and impossible : Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
The end of everything : Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
Racial wounds and the niggerization of America : Cornel West (1953- )
Text, power, and women : Dorothy E. Smith (1926- )
Embodying sex : Judith Butler (1956- ).

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