TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joas,Hans
AU  - Knöbl,Wolfgang
AU  - Skinner,Alex
TI  - Social theory: twenty introductory lectures 
SN  - 9780521690881 (pbk.)
U1  - 300.1 JOA 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Sociology
N1  - 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
UR  - http://openisbn.com/isbn/0521690889/
ER  -