Shaun Best

A Beginner's Guide to Social Theory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Best offers a comprehensive overview of social theory from classical sociology to the present day. The reader is guided through the work of Durkheim, Marx and Weber and contemporary thinkers like Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Gilles Deluze, Manuel Castells, Luce Irigary, Naomi Woolf and Camille Paglia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9780761965336
• ISBN-10: 0761965335
• Artikelnr.: 21702460

Autorenporträt

Shaun Best is a Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Manchester, and author of Understanding Social Divisions, (2005) and A Beginner¿s Guide to Social Theory (2003, both SAGE).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The Theoretical Self
Functionalist Perspectives
Theorizing Systems and Structures
Marxism
Theorizing Capitalism - Debates and Developments
The Action Perspectives
Theorizing Social Action and Self
Feminist Approaches
Theorizing Patriarchy and Oppression
Anthony Giddens
Theorizing Agency and Structure
Postmodernism
Theorizing Fragmentation and Uncertainty