Modern social theory
Subtitle: an introduction
By: edited by Austin Harrington.
Contributors: Harrington, Austin, 1970-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Social sciences -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-364) and index.
Table of contents: title: Classical social theory, I: contexts and beginnings / Austin Harrington; title: Classical social theory, II: Karl Marx and Eḿile Durkheim / Antonino Palumbo and Alan Scott; title: Classical social theory, III: Max Weber and Georg Simmel / Gianfranco Poggi; title: Functionalism and its critics / John Holmwood; title: Interpretativism and interactionism / William Outhwaite; title: Historical social theory / Dennis Smith; title: Western Marxism / Douglas Kellner; title: Psychoanalytic social theory / Anthony Elliott; title: Structuralism and post-structuralism / Samantha Ashenden; title: Structure and agency / Anthony King; title: Feminist social theory / Lisa Adkins; title: Modernity and postmodernity: part I / Barry Smart; title: Modernity and postmodernity: part II / Gerard Delanty; title: Globalization / Robert Holton; title: Conclution: Social theory for the twenty-first century / Austin Harrington.