Professor Tim May is Lead Director of the Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures (SURF). Dr. Jason L Powell is Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at University of Liverpool.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: SITUATING SOCIAL THEORY
1: The Enlightenment and the development of social theory
2: Seven traditions of renewal, modification and critique
PART II: CONTEMPORARY THEORIES ON SOCIETY AND SOCIAL LIFE
3: Symbolism and performance in everyday life
4: Social life as accomplishment
5: Reproducing society in social relations
6: Habitus, capital and field: society in social relations
7: Action, networks and intermediaries
8: The linguistic turn in critical theory
9: Where did all the women go?
10: The making of the modern subject
11: Beyond modernity?
PART III: THEORIES IN ACTION
12: Emotion in Social Relations
13: Globalization
CONCLUSION
Looking back and looking forward
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