Introducing Social Theory

Third edition
3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-5095-0504-3
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

This revised edition of this extremely popular introduction to social theory has been carefully and thoroughly updated with the latest developments in this continually changing field. Written in a refreshingly lucid and engaging style, Introducing Social Theory provides readers with a wide-ranging, well organized and thematic introduction to all the major thinkers, issues and debates in classical and contemporary social theory.

Introducing Social Theory traces the development of social theorizing from the classical ideas about modernity of Durkheim, Marx and Weber, right up to a uniquely accessible review of the contemporary theoretical controversies in sociology that surround post-colonialism, gender and feminist theories, and public sociology.
The ideal textbook for students of sociology at all levels, from A-level to undergraduates, Introducing Social Theory is remarkably easy to follow and understand. This new edition lives up to its predecessors' goal that students need never be intimidated by social theory again.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Pip

Bradbury, Liz

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1. An Introduction to Sociological Theories
- 2. Marx and Marxism
- 3. Max Weber
- 4. Emile Durkheim
- 5. Interpretive Sociology: Action Theories
- 6. Language, Discourse and Power in Modernity: Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault
- 7. Social Structures and Social Action
- 8. Feminist and Gender Theories
- 9. Sociology and Its Publics

Über Autor(innen)

Pip Jones is a former Principal Lecturer in Sociology at Anglia Ruskin University
Liz Bradbury is a Principal Lecturer in Sociology at Anglia Ruskin University