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Paperback Social Theory Today Book

ISBN: 0804715149

ISBN13: 9780804715140

Social Theory Today

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Social theory has undergone dramatic changes over the past fifteen years. The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive survey of those changes and an authoritative statement on current trends of development in social thought.

The contents of the book range in a systematic way across the major traditions of social theory prominent today. Among the topics covered are the relationships between modern social theory and the 'classics'...

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Major Traditions in Sociology from Parsonian Theory to Symbolic Interaction

From Front Cover: "Social theory has undergone dramatic changes over the past 15 years. The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive survey of those changes, and an authoritative statement on current trends of development in social thought. The contents of the book range in a systematic way across the major traditions of social theory prominent today. Among the topics covered are the realatsionships between modern social theory and the 'classics' of the late 18th and 19th Centuries; the connections between social theory and mathematical social science; and the logical status of generalizations in the social science. Traditions of thought discussed include behaviorism; symbolic interactionism; Parsonian theory; analytical theory; structuralism and post-structuralism; ethnomethodology; structuration theory; world systems theory; Marxism; and critical theory. The distinguished group of contributors consists of Jeffrey Alexander, Ira Cohen, Anthony Giddens, John Heritage, George Homas, Axel Honneth, Hans Joas, Ralph Miliband, R. Munch, Jonathan Turner, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Thomas Wilson."
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