1 option
New directions in social theory : race, gender and the canon / Kate Reed.
LIBRA H61 .R395 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reed, Kate, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 176 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2006.
- Contents:
- Sociological Theory Past and Present 4
- Changing Concepts: Class, Gender and Race 6
- Reasons behind Changes in Sociological Theory 8
- Social Change 8
- Paradigm Shifts 9
- Selection and Exclusion 9
- This Book: Themes, Aims and Arguments 10
- Part 1 Classical Sociology
- 2 The Classical Tradition 19
- The Emergence of Sociology 20
- Race, Gender and the Classical Agenda 21
- Karl Marx and the Theory of Capitalism 23
- Emile Durkheim and the Study of Social Facts 27
- Max Weber and the Science of Interpretation 29
- Evaluating the Holy Trinity 32
- Peripheral Visions 32
- Georg Simmel and the Fragmentation of Society 32
- The Endurance of the Classics 35
- The Emergence of Sociological Exclusion 37
- 3 Race, Gender and Hidden Classics 42
- Race, Gender and Sociological Exclusion 43
- Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) 43
- W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963) 47
- Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964 51
- The Hidden Classics and Sociological Theory 54
- Why Were They Outsiders? 54
- From Hidden Classics to Contemporary Insiders 56
- Evaluating the Position of the Hidden Classics 57
- Changes in Sociology: The Interwar Years 58
- The Chicago School: A Move to Inclusion? 58
- Robert Park and the Sociology of Race 60
- Jane Addams and the Chicago Women's School 62
- Part 2 Modern Sociology
- 4 Theories of the Golden Age 69
- The Emergence of Modern Sociology 70
- Theories of the Golden Age 71
- Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) 72
- Crisis and Hope in the Sociological Canon 76
- C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) 77
- Alvin Gouldner (1920-1980) 80
- Gloom and Despair: The Frankfurt School 86
- Evaluating Modern Theorists 90
- 5 Race, Gender and Sociological Outsiders 94
- Race, Gender and Sociological Exclusion 95
- Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) 95
- Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) 100
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) 104
- Outsider Visions and Sociological Theory 108
- Why Were They Outsiders? 109
- From Modern Outsiders to Contemporary Insiders 110
- Evaluating Modern Outsiders 111
- The Challenge to Western Sociology 112
- The Feminist Challenge to Social Theory 113
- The Growth of the Sociology of Race 115
- Part 3 Contemporary Sociology
- 6 Postmodernism and Social Theory 121
- Changes in Sociological Theory 122
- Postmodernism and Sociological Theory 123
- Postmodernism, Class, Race and Gender 125
- Contemporary Social Theorists 127
- Anthony Giddens (1938-) 128
- Donna Haraway (1944-) 132
- Stuart Hall (1932-) 136
- Is This the End of Sociological Outsiders? 140
- 7 Beyond Sociological Exclusion 144
- Rewriting Sociological Theory's Past 146
- Writing Contemporary Social Theory 149
- Race, Gender and the Centring of Outsiders 149
- Gender, Race and Public Social Theory 152
- Empirically Orienting Social Theory 154
- Limitations to Gendered and Racial Inclusion 156
- The Future of Social Theory 157.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-171) and index.
- ISBN:
- 076194270X
- 0761942718
- OCLC:
- 60560426
- Publisher Number:
- 9780761942702 (hbk.)
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.