Social theory :
Joas, Hans, 1948-
Social theory : twenty introductory lectures / Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl ; translated by Alex Skinner. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - xii, 605 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
What is theory? -- The classical attempt at synthesis: Talcott Parsons -- Parsons on the road to normativist functionalism -- Parsons and the elaboration of normativist functionalism -- Neo-utilitarianism -- Interpretive approaches (1): symbolic interactionism -- Interpretive approaches (2): ethnomethodology -- Conflict sociology and conflict theory -- Habermas and critical theory -- Habermas' 'theory of communicative action' -- Niklas Luhmann's radicalization of functionalism -- Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration and the new British sociology of power -- The renewal of Parsonianism and modernization theory -- Structuralism and poststructuralism -- Between structuralism and theory of practice: the cultural sociology of Pierre Bourdieu -- French anti-structuralists (Cornelius Castoriadis, Alain Touraine and Paul Ricoeur) -- Feminist social theories -- A crisis of modernity? New diagnoses (Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Robert Bellah, and the debate between liberals and communitarians) -- Neopragmatism -- How things stand.
Translated from the German.
9780521690881 (pbk.) 0521690889
Social sciences--Philosophy--History--20th century.
Sociology--Philosophy--History--20th century.
300.1 JOA / 000460
Social theory : twenty introductory lectures / Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl ; translated by Alex Skinner. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - xii, 605 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
What is theory? -- The classical attempt at synthesis: Talcott Parsons -- Parsons on the road to normativist functionalism -- Parsons and the elaboration of normativist functionalism -- Neo-utilitarianism -- Interpretive approaches (1): symbolic interactionism -- Interpretive approaches (2): ethnomethodology -- Conflict sociology and conflict theory -- Habermas and critical theory -- Habermas' 'theory of communicative action' -- Niklas Luhmann's radicalization of functionalism -- Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration and the new British sociology of power -- The renewal of Parsonianism and modernization theory -- Structuralism and poststructuralism -- Between structuralism and theory of practice: the cultural sociology of Pierre Bourdieu -- French anti-structuralists (Cornelius Castoriadis, Alain Touraine and Paul Ricoeur) -- Feminist social theories -- A crisis of modernity? New diagnoses (Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Robert Bellah, and the debate between liberals and communitarians) -- Neopragmatism -- How things stand.
Translated from the German.
9780521690881 (pbk.) 0521690889
Social sciences--Philosophy--History--20th century.
Sociology--Philosophy--History--20th century.
300.1 JOA / 000460