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New directions in social theory : race, gender and the canon / Kate Reed.

LIBRA H61 .R395 2006
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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.)

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