Contemporary social theory
By: Ramon Flecha, Jesus Gomez & Lidia Puigvert, preface by Ulrich Beck.
Contributors: Gómez, Jesús.; Puigvert, Lidia, 1970-
Series: Counterpoints : studies in the postmodern theory of education -- v. 250.; Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) -- v. 250.
Publisher: Peter Lang. Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Sociology -- Philosophy; Social sciences -- Philosophy
Work titles: Teoría sociológica contemporánea.
Notes: Translation of: Teoría sociológica contemporánea.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-141) and index.
Table of contents: title: Society as a system of subsystems; title: Manifest and latent functions : the Matthew effect; title: An automated utopia : systems theory; title: From functionalism to structuralism; title: Constructivist structuralism : habitus; title: The analysis of socially constructed reality; title: Interactionism; title: Dramaturgy; title: Ethnomethodology; title: The information society; title: A new modernity; title: Individuals as the basis of social actions; title: The theory of communicative action; title: The dialogic turn in the social sciences.