Anthony Elliott (ed.)

The Routledge Companion to Social Theory

Herausgeber: Elliott, Anthony

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of introductory essays by an international range of expert contributors giving an insightful and accessible overview of classical and contemporary social theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780415470155
• ISBN-10: 0415470153
• Artikelnr.: 28175698

Autorenporträt

Anthony Elliott is Professor of Sociology at Flinders University, Australia, and Visiting Research Professor in Sociology at The Open University, UK. His publications for Routledge include The Contemporary Bauman (2007), Contemporary Social Theory: An Introduction (2009), and The New Individualism: The Emotional Costs of Globalization with Charles Lemert (revised edition, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part One: Traditions and Riddles of Social Theory 1. What is
Social Theory? 2. Classical Social Theory 3. Social Theory and Symbolic
Interactionism 4. Social Theory and Psychoanalysis 5. Social Theory,
Structuralism and Poststructuralism 6. Structuration Theories 7. Social
Theory of the Body 8. Postmodern Social Theory 9. Social Theory of Identity
10. New Media, Popular Culture and Social Theory 11. Citizenship,
Cosmopolitanism and Social Theory 12. Social Theory and Cultural Sociology
13. Social Theory of Globalization. Part Two: Central Terms and Thinkers.
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