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Handbook of Social Theory [electronic resource] / edited by George Ritzer and Barry Smart.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles : Sage, 2001.ISBN:
  • 0761941878
  • 9780761958406
  • 9781848608351 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780761941873:
Other title:
  • Social Theory
Uniform titles:
  • Sage eReference
Subject(s): Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : theorists, theories and theorizing / G. Ritzer and B. Smart -- Modernity, enlightenment, revolution and romanticism : creating social theory / John Rundell -- The origins of positivism : the contributions of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer / Jonathan H. Turner -- Maintaining Marx / Gregor McLennan -- Max Weber : work and interpretation / Sam Whimster -- The continuing relevance of Georg Simmel : staking out anew the field of sociology / Birgitta Nedelmann -- Durkheim's Project for a sociological science / Mike Gane -- The emergence of the new : Mead's Theory and its contemporary potential / Hans Joas -- Karl Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge / David Kettler and Volker Meja -- Psychoanalysis and sociology : from Freudo-marxism to Freudo-feminism / John O'Neill -- Classical feminist social theory / Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley; Functional, conflict and neofunctional theories / Mark Abrahamson -- Talcott Parsons : conservative apologist or irreplaceable icon? / Robert J. Holton -- Nietzsche : social theory in the twilight of the millennium / Robert J. Antonio -- Critical theory / Craig Calhoun and Joseph Karaganis -- Jürgen Habermas' Theory of communicative action : an incomplete project / Richard Harvey Brown and Douglas Goodman -- Symbolic interactionism at the end of the century / Kent L. Sandstrom, Daniel D. Martin and Gary Alan Fine -- Phenomenology and social theory / Harvie Ferguson -- Fundamentals of ethnomethodology / Wes Sharrock -- Theories of social exchange and exchange networks / Linda D. Molm -- Sociological rational choice / Douglas D. Heckathorn -- Contemporary feminist theory / Mary F. Rogers -- Multiculturalism / Charles Lemert -- Social theory and the postmodern / Stephen Crook -- Michel Foucault : 'a man in danger' / Mitchell Dean; The macro/micro problem and the problem of structure and agency / Barry Barnes -- Norbert Elias and process sociology / Robert van Krieken -- Positivism in the twentieth century / Peter Halfpenny -- Metatheorizing in sociology / Shanyang Zhao -- Cultural studies and social theory : a critical intervention / Douglas Kellner -- Theories of consumption / G. Ritzer, D. Goodman and Wendy Wiedenhoft -- Sexualities : social theory and the crisis of identity / Anthony Elliott -- The embodied foundations of social theory / Chris Shilling -- Globalization theory 2000+ : major problematics / Roland Robertson -- Nationalism : between nation and state / Gerard Delanty -- Socialism : modern hopes, postmodern shadows / Peter Beilharz; Modern societies as knowledge societies / Nico Stehr -- Sociology, morality and ethics : on being with others / B. Smart -- Postsocial relations : theorizing sociality in a postsocial environment / Karin Knorr Cetina.
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Introduction : theorists, theories and theorizing / G. Ritzer and B. Smart -- Modernity, enlightenment, revolution and romanticism : creating social theory / John Rundell -- The origins of positivism : the contributions of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer / Jonathan H. Turner -- Maintaining Marx / Gregor McLennan -- Max Weber : work and interpretation / Sam Whimster -- The continuing relevance of Georg Simmel : staking out anew the field of sociology / Birgitta Nedelmann -- Durkheim's Project for a sociological science / Mike Gane -- The emergence of the new : Mead's Theory and its contemporary potential / Hans Joas -- Karl Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge / David Kettler and Volker Meja -- Psychoanalysis and sociology : from Freudo-marxism to Freudo-feminism / John O'Neill -- Classical feminist social theory / Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley; Functional, conflict and neofunctional theories / Mark Abrahamson -- Talcott Parsons : conservative apologist or irreplaceable icon? / Robert J. Holton -- Nietzsche : social theory in the twilight of the millennium / Robert J. Antonio -- Critical theory / Craig Calhoun and Joseph Karaganis -- Jürgen Habermas' Theory of communicative action : an incomplete project / Richard Harvey Brown and Douglas Goodman -- Symbolic interactionism at the end of the century / Kent L. Sandstrom, Daniel D. Martin and Gary Alan Fine -- Phenomenology and social theory / Harvie Ferguson -- Fundamentals of ethnomethodology / Wes Sharrock -- Theories of social exchange and exchange networks / Linda D. Molm -- Sociological rational choice / Douglas D. Heckathorn -- Contemporary feminist theory / Mary F. Rogers -- Multiculturalism / Charles Lemert -- Social theory and the postmodern / Stephen Crook -- Michel Foucault : 'a man in danger' / Mitchell Dean; The macro/micro problem and the problem of structure and agency / Barry Barnes -- Norbert Elias and process sociology / Robert van Krieken -- Positivism in the twentieth century / Peter Halfpenny -- Metatheorizing in sociology / Shanyang Zhao -- Cultural studies and social theory : a critical intervention / Douglas Kellner -- Theories of consumption / G. Ritzer, D. Goodman and Wendy Wiedenhoft -- Sexualities : social theory and the crisis of identity / Anthony Elliott -- The embodied foundations of social theory / Chris Shilling -- Globalization theory 2000+ : major problematics / Roland Robertson -- Nationalism : between nation and state / Gerard Delanty -- Socialism : modern hopes, postmodern shadows / Peter Beilharz; Modern societies as knowledge societies / Nico Stehr -- Sociology, morality and ethics : on being with others / B. Smart -- Postsocial relations : theorizing sociality in a postsocial environment / Karin Knorr Cetina.

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