Contemporary social and sociological theory
Subtitle: visualizing social worlds
By: Kenneth Allan
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9781412978200
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning there was modernity; title: Defining moments in twentieth-century theory : Talcott Parsons and the Frankfurt School; title: Symbolic interaction : Herbert Blumer (1900-1987); title: Organizing ordinary life : Harold Garfinkel (1917- ); title: Performing the self : Erving Goffman (1922-1982); title: Social exchanges : George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins; title: Structures of racial and gender inequality : William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz; title: Structuring class : Pierre Bourdieu (1960-2002); title: Global capitalism : Immanuel Wallerstein (1930- ); title: The network society : Manuel Castells (1942- ); title: Modernity and reason : Jürgen Habermas (1929- ); title: Runaway modernity : Anthony Giddens (1938- ); title: Defining the possible and impossible : Michel Foucault (1926-1984); title: The end of everything : Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007); title: Racial wounds and the niggerization of America : Cornel West (1953- ); title: Text, power, and women : Dorothy E. Smith (1926- ); title: Embodying sex : Judith Butler (1956- ).