George Ritzer / Barry Smart

Handbook of Social Theory

Herausgeber: Ritzer, George; Smart, Barry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the roots, current debates and future development of social theory. It draws together a team of international scholars, and presents an authoritative and panoramic critical survey of the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications UK
• Seitenzahl: 566
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 964g
• ISBN-13: 9780761941873
• ISBN-10: 0761941878
• Artikelnr.: 20974217

Autorenporträt

George Ritzer is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. He received the 2000 Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award from the American Sociological Association and has chaired its sections on Theoretical Sociology and Organizations and Occupations. Among his most recent books are The McDonaldization of Society, New Century Edition, Enchanting a Disenchanted World , and, with Barry Smart, The Handbook of Social Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - George Ritzer and Barry Smart Theorists, Theories and Theorizing PART ONE: CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY Modernity, Enlightenment, Revolution and Romanticism - John Rundell Creating Social Theory The Origins of Positivism - Jonathan H Turner The Contributions of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer Maintaining Marx - Gregor McLennan Max Weber - Sam Whimster Work and Interpretation The Continuing Relevance of Georg Simmel - Birgitta Nedelmann Staking Out Anew the Field of Sociology Durkheim
s Project for a Sociological Science - Mike Gane The Emergence of the New - Hans Joas Mead
s Theory and Its Contemporary Potential Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge - David Kettler and Volker Meja Psychoanalysis and Sociology - John O
Neill From Freudo-Marxism to Freudo-Feminism Classical Feminist Social Theory - Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY Functional, Conflict and Neofunctional Theories - Mark Abrahamson Talcott Parsons - Robert J Holton Conservative Apologist or Irreplaceable Icon? Nietzsche - Robert J Antonio Social Theory in the Twilight of the Millennium Critical Theory - Craig Calhoun and Joseph Karaganis J[um]urgen Habermas
Theory of Communicative Action - Richard Harvey Brown and Douglas Goodman An Incomplete Project Symbolic Interactionism at the End of the Century - Kent L Sandstrom, Daniel D Martin and Gary Alan Fine Phenomenology and Social Theory - Harvie Ferguson Fundamentals of Ethnomethodology - Wes Sharrock Theories of Social Exchange and Exchange Networks - Linda D Molm Sociological Rational Choice - Douglas D Heckathorn Contemporary Feminist Theory - Mary F Rogers Multiculturalism - Charles Lemert Social Theory and the Postmodern - Stephen Crook Michel Foucault - Mitchell Dean `A Man in Danger
The Macro/Micro Problem and the Problem of Structure and Agency - Barry Barnes Norbert Elias and Process Sociology - Robert van Krieken PART THREE: ISSUES IN SOCIAL THEORY Positivism in the Twentieth Century - Peter Halfpenny Metatheorizing in Sociology - Shanyang Zhao Cultural Studies and Social Theory - Douglas Kellner A Critical Intervention Theories of Consumption - George Ritzer, Douglas Goodman and Wendy Wiedenhoft Sexualities - Anthony Elliott Social Theory and the Crisis of Identity The Embodied Foundations of Social Theory - Chris Shilling Globalization Theory 2000+ - Roland Robertson Major Problematics Nationalism - Gerard Delanty Between Nation and State Socialism - Peter Beilharz Modern Hopes, Postmodern Shadows Modern Societies as Knowledge Societies - Nico Stehr Sociology, Morality and Ethics - Barry Smart On Being with Others Postsocial Relations - Karin Knorr Cetina Theorizing Sociality in a Post-social Environment