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Introducing social theory / Pip Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Pip.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : Distributed in the USA by Blackwell Pub., 2003.
- Summary:
- This text traces the development of social theorizing from the classical ideas about modernity of Durkheim, Marx and Weber, through 20th century debates around structure and agency and developments in feminist thinking, to a review of contemporary theoretical controversies in sociology.
- Contents:
- An introduction to sociological theories
- Emile Durkheim
- Marx and marxism
- Max Weber
- Feminist theories
- Interpretive sociology : action theories
- Michel Foucault : discourse theory and the body-centredness of modernity
- Language and social life : structuralism, post-structuralism and relativism
- Post-modernity and postmodernism
- Critical repsonses to post-modernity and postmodernism.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: Studying society. 1993.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-195) and index.
- ISBN:
- 074562698X
- 0745626998
- OCLC:
- 50476711
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