What is Social Theory C

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-631-20954-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 616 g

An innovative and wide ranging collection of original essays by today's leading social theorists aiming to clarify the current uses being made of philosophical ideas in the creation of social thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sica, Alan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors.

1. Philosophy's Tutelage of Social Theory: A Parody of Profundity? Alan Sica (Pennsylvania State University).

2. Mapping Postmodern Theory: Robert J. Antonio (University of Kansas).

3. A Thesaurus of Experience: Maurice Natanson, Phenomenology and Social Theory: Mary F. Rogers (University of West Florida).

4. A Social Epistemology of the Structure-Agency Craze: From Content to Context: Steve Fuller (University of Durham).

5. Making Normative Soup with Non-normative Bones: Stephen Turner (University of South Florida).

6. Criteria for a Theory of Knowledge: Jennifer Croissant (University of Arizona).

7. Examples, Submerged Statements and the Neglected Application of Philosophy to Social Theory: Stanley Lieberson (Harvard University).

8. Loosening the Chains of Philosophical Reductionism: Steven Rytina (McGill University).

9. Social Order and Emergent Rationality: Michael Macy (Cornell University).

10. Theoretical Models: Sociology's Missing Links: John Skvoretz (University of South Carolina).

11. Sociological Models: Paul Humphreys (University of Virginia).

12. Culture and Social Structure: Peter Blau (University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill).

Name Index.

Subject Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Sica is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Graduate Program in Social Thought at Pennsylvania State University. For five years the editor of Sociological Theory, his other books include Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order (1988) and Ideologies and Corruption of Thought (1997) and forthcoming with Blackwell Max Weber and the New Century.