Social Theory Today

'This is an excellent collection of essays which, now that it has been published in paperback, deserves to reach a wide audience. It provides a comprehensive survey of current issues in social theory, although the collection is of interest as much for the authors it brings together as for the topics they cover.' Sociology 'Social Theory Todayis a highly useful and satisfying work ... In the first place Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner have comprehensively charted their own field ... In the second place, [they] have been largely successful in persuading their authors to observe a consistent format ... Finally, Giddens and Turner, thanks to their own personal standing as productive and original practitioners of sociological theory, have been able to enlist the collaboration of a number of highly distinguished authors.' Times Higher Education Supplement

• Introduction: Anthony Giddens and Jonathan H. Turner. 1. The Centrality of the Classics:.Jeffrey C. Alexander.2. Behaviourism and After:.George C. Homans.3. Symbolic Interactionism:.Hans Joas.4. Parsonian Theory Today:.In Search of a New Synthesis: Richard Munch.5. Analytical Theorizing:.Jonathan H. Turner.6. Structuralism, Post-Structuralism and the Production of Culture: Anthony Giddens.7. Ethnomethodology:.John C. Heritage.8. Structuration Theory and Social Praxis:.Ira J. Cohen.9. World-Systems Analysis:.Immanuel Wallerstein.10. Class Analysis: Ralph Miliband.11. Critical Theory: Axel Honneth.12. Sociology and the Mathematical Method: Thomas P. Wilson.Index.