Matthias Benzer, Kate Reed

Social Life (eBook, PDF)

Contemporary Social Theory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Social Life, the authors highlight, explain, and scrutinize socio-theoretical analyses of contemporary social relations and conditions - put forward by eight modern social theorists - and analyse how these have informed sociological inquiries into people's lives in today's social world.

The book discusses the works of the following social theorists:

• Anthony Giddens
• Pierre Bourdieu
• Bruno Latour
• Donna Haraway
• Zygmunt Bauman
• Jean-Francois Lyotard
• Michel Foucault
• Jean Baudrillard

In each chapter, the authors identify the key components of each theorist's conception of society and apply the theories outlined to specific, modern phenomena. This connection with modern-day phenomena allows for a critical interrogation of issues in contemporary society, including: Inequality and Capital, Power, Fear and Terrorism, Immune System Discourse, Suffering, and Climate Change.

Essential reading for all sociology students studying social theory and the works of modern social theorists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526415875
• Artikelnr.: 56839532

Autorenporträt

Dr Matthias Benzer is a Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Sheffield. He previously held the Peacock Fellowship at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics (2010-2012), and a Lectureship in Sociology at the University of Manchester (2008-2010). Matthias obtained a PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics in 2008 with a thesis in Sociological Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Anthony Giddens: Living with Radical Modernity
Pierre Bourdieu: Capital and Forms of Social Suffering
Bruno Latour: Rethinking Modern Social Life
Donna Haraway: New Modes of Sociality
Zygmunt Bauman: Liquid Social Life
Jean-François Lyotard: Living in Postmodernity
Michel Foucault: Power over Life
Jean Baudrillard: Terror, Death, Exchange
Emerging Sociological Themes and Concerns
Conclusion

Rezensionen

Benzer and Reed grab their favourite things from their favourite theorists and assemble those closely examined nuggets into their own kaleidoscopic-fragmentary theory of contemporary society. Avoiding the fetish of comprehensiveness that ruins most textbooks, they have produced a tool that students will actually find useful for studying.

Dr Marcel Stoetzler, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Bangor University