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Contested Knowledge Social Theory Today.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Seidman, Steven
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2016.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Conflicting Views of Social Theory
  • Part I The Rise of the Classical Tradition
  • Introduction to Part I
  • Chapter 1 The Idea of a Science of Society: The Enlightenment and Auguste Comte
  • Auguste Comte
  • Chapter 2 The Revolutionary Theory of Karl Marx
  • The Unity of Theory and Practice
  • Historical Materialism: A Revolutionary Science
  • Das Kapital: The Logic of Social Revolution
  • Tensions between a Scientific and Moral Vision
  • Chapter 3 The Promise of Sociology: Emile Durkheim
  • Durkheim's Liberal Vision of History and Modernity
  • Suicide: Individualism and Community Revisited
  • Science, Truth, and Moral Hope
  • Chapter 4 The Ironic Social Theory of Max Weber
  • Puritanism and the Making of the Middle Class
  • Explaining Western Modernity and the Irony of History
  • Charisma and Bureaucracy: The Modern Dream Turned Nightmare
  • Science, Truth, and Values
  • Afterword to Part I
  • Part II Rethinking the Classical Tradition: American Sociology
  • Introduction to Part II
  • Chapter 5 The Grand Theory of Talcott Parsons, Peter Berger, and Thomas Luckmann
  • Talcott Parsons
  • Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann
  • Chapter 6 The Scientific Theory of Randall Collins and Peter Blau
  • Randall Collins
  • Peter Blau
  • Chapter 7 The Moral Sociology of C. Wright Mills and Robert Bellah
  • C. Wright Mills
  • Robert Bellah
  • Afterword to Part II
  • Part III Rethinking the Classical Tradition: European Theory
  • Introduction to Part III
  • Chapter 8 The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas
  • Social Critique as Reason
  • Reconstructing Marxism as General Theory and Critique
  • Failed Modernization: The Triumph of Instrumental Reason
  • Chapter 9 Stuart Hall and British Cultural Studies
  • Chapter 10 The Critical Sociology of Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu
  • Anthony Giddens
  • Pierre Bourdieu
  • Afterword to Part III
  • Part IV Revisions and Revolts:: The Postmodern Turn
  • Introduction to Part IV
  • Chapter 11 The Postmodern World of Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, and Jean Baudrillard
  • Structuralism: A Vision of a Scientific Human Studies
  • Jacques Derrida
  • Jean-François Lyotard
  • Jean Baudrillard
  • Chapter 12 Michel Foucault's Disciplinary Society
  • Rethinking Sexual Liberation: Foucault's Genealogy of Sexuality
  • The Idea of a Disciplinary Order
  • Chapter 13 Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology of Postmodernity
  • From Modernity to Postmodernity
  • Postmodernity and Sociology
  • Afterword to Part IV
  • Part V Revisions and Revolts: Identity Politics and Theory
  • Introduction to Part V
  • Chapter 14 Feminist Theory/Masculinity Studies
  • Gynocentric Feminism: Dorothy Smith
  • Difference Feminism: The Intersection of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Class
  • Postmodern Feminism: Judith Butler
  • Theorizing Masculinity