Joe Bailey

Social Theory for Planning (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1975, this book brings to the attention of an important group of sociology-users some of the latest developments and insights of social theory at the time. The emphasis is on the value of theory in defining planning problems in sociologically conscious terms rather than in solving them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040330432
• Artikelnr.: 73130096

Autorenporträt

Joe Bailey is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology and previous Head of the School of Social Science at Kingston University UK. He is the author of Ideas and Intervention (1980), Pessimism (1988) and Social Europe (ed 1992: 1998). He was educated at the University of Kent and The London School of Economics. Social Theory for Planning was an outcome of a course taught in the Planning Department of the Architectural Association in London in the early 1970s.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments. 1. The Context of Social Theory 2. The Uses of
Knowledge 3. Social Change and Evolutionary Theory 4. Systems Theory 5.
Conflict Theory 6. Interpretative Sociology 7. Urban Sociology at a 'High'
Level 8. Urban Sociology at a 'Low' Level 9. Social Theory, Social Problems
and Social Control. Bibliography. Index.