The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Bryan S.

Series:

Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences -- Philosophy.

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology -- Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (636 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2008.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction: A New Agenda for Social Theory?

Part I: Foundations

1: The Foundations of Social Theory

2: Contemporary Sociological Theory: Post-Parsonian Developments

3: Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Part II: Actions, Actors, and Systems

4: Theories of Social Action

5: Functionalism and Social Systems Theory

6: Structuralism and Poststructuralism

7: Actor Network Theory and Material Semiotics

8: Ethnomethodology and Social Theory

9: Rational Choice Theory

Part III: Perspectives on Social and Cultural Analysis

10: Pragmatism and Symbolic Interactionism

11: Phenomenology

12: Feminist Theory

13: Postmodern Social Theory

14: Social Constructionism

15: Conversation Analysis as Social Theory

16: Globalization Theory

Part IV: Sociology and the Social Sciences

17: Genetics and Social Theory

18: Economic Sociology

19: Cultural Sociology

20: Historical Sociology

21: The Sociology of Religion

22: Demography

23: Science and Technology Studies: From Controversies to Posthumanist Social Theory

Part V: New Developments

24: Mobilities and Social Theory

25: Sociological Theory and Human Rights: Two Logics, One World

26: The Sociology of the Body

27: Cosmopolitanism and Social Theory

28: The Future of Social Theory

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Turner, Bryan S. The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory

ISBN:

9781444305005

OCLC:

437098090