Social Theory
Subtitle: A Historical Introduction
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: September 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780814715932
Subjects: Modernism; Political science & theory; Social theory; History Of Sociological Thought; Social Science; Sociology; Sociology - Social Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCES_PHILOSOPHY; SOCIOLOGY_PHILOSOPHY; Social Science / General; Sociology - General; History
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.