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Teaching yourself social theory /

This text demonstrates how social theory can be made into an intelligible discourse that touches upon key aspects of everyday life. The abstraction and formalism of much contemporary social theory is criticized as unnecessarily 'scholastic' for the beginner.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harris, David, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2003.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I; 1
  • Economic Constraints: Marxism and the Mode of Production; 2
  • Moral Constraints: Functionalism; PART II; 3
  • The Emergent Qualities of Social Life: Weber and Elias; 4
  • Theorising Subjective Action; PART III; 5
  • Weber, Class and the Politics of Closure; 6
  • The Turn to Gramsci; 7
  • Critical Theory, Positivism and Critique; 8
  • Feminism(s); 9
  • The Politics of Otherness; 10
  • Foucault; 11
  • Politics in the 'Everyday'; PART IV; 12
  • Language Games and Linguistic Turns; 13
  • Hitting the 'Posts'; References; Index.