Social Theory
Subtitle: A Historical Introduction (Historical & Critical Introduc)
Publisher: Polity Pr
Published: April 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780745616452
Subjects: Political science & theory; Sociology, Social Studies; Sociology - General; Social Science; Politics/International Relations; Sociology
First sentence: Social theory, as it has developed over the past two centuries, has concerned itself more than anything else with the three main dimensions of social power - economic relations, which have reached their furthest development in the market system known as capitalism; the ideologies through which forms of special power are justified and the place in the world of those subject to them defined; and the various patterns of political domination.