Gary Browning is Professor in Political Theory for Oxford Brookes University. He joined the Department in September 1991. He lectures on political theory, teaching undergraduate courses on political thought, democracy, freedom, justice and the community and on global political theory on the Masters programme in International Politics. Professor Frank Webster comes from a small coal-mining village in the south west of County Durham in North East England. He attended Coundon Junior School from 1956-62 and Spennymoor Secondary School from 1962-69, then read Sociology at the University of Durham (BA, MA, 1972, 1974). He completed his formal studies at the London School of Economics (LSE, PhD 1978

An excellent text that gives student an understnadeing of some of the current theories in sociology

• Theory, Theorists and Themes - Gary Browning, Abigail Halcli and Frank WebsterA User′s Guide to Understanding the PresentPART ONE: THEORIES Postmodernism - Christopher NorrisA Guide for the PerplexedPost-Feminism - Mich[gr]ele BarrettPost-History - Krishan KumarLiving at the EndPost-Marxism - Terrell CarverPost-Colonialism and Beyond - Don RobothamReflexive Modernization - Ted BentonNarrative - Susan StephensonRational Choice Theory - John ScottComplexity Theory - Tim BlackmanContemporary Liberalism - Gary BrowningDemocracy - Nick HewlettLiberal and DirectCommunitarianism - Elizabeth FrazerNew Thinking in International Relations - Kimberly HutchingsUtopia and Dystopia - Stephen CrookPART TWO: THEMESPost-Modernity - David LyonGlobalization - Barrie AxfordRestructuring - Andy KilmisterCities in the Global Economy - Saskia SassenCultural Studies - Rick MaxwellIntellectuals - Carl BoggsHigher Education - Frank WebsterMass Communication - Kaarle NordenstrengThe Web - Vincent MoscoNationalism - Murray LowIslam - Sarah AnsariCultural Pluralism Today - Avigail EisenbergFamilies and Households - Mary MaynardThe Body - Chris ShillingIntimate Choices - Ken PlummerEnvironmentalism - David PepperSocial Movements - Abigail HalcliSocial Inequalities - Harriet BradleyComing to Terms with Complexity

Gary Browning is Professor in Political Theory for Oxford Brookes University. He joined the Department in September 1991. He lectures on political theory, teaching undergraduate courses on political thought, democracy, freedom, justice and the community and on global political theory on the Masters programme in International Politics. Professor Frank Webster comes from a small coal-mining village in the south west of County Durham in North East England. He attended Coundon Junior School from 1956-62 and Spennymoor Secondary School from 1962-69, then read Sociology at the University of Durham (BA, MA, 1972, 1974). He completed his formal studies at the London School of Economics (LSE, PhD 1978

An excellent text that gives student an understnadeing of some of the current theories in sociology

• Theory, Theorists and Themes - Gary Browning, Abigail Halcli and Frank WebsterA User′s Guide to Understanding the PresentPART ONE: THEORIES Postmodernism - Christopher NorrisA Guide for the PerplexedPost-Feminism - Mich[gr]ele BarrettPost-History - Krishan KumarLiving at the EndPost-Marxism - Terrell CarverPost-Colonialism and Beyond - Don RobothamReflexive Modernization - Ted BentonNarrative - Susan StephensonRational Choice Theory - John ScottComplexity Theory - Tim BlackmanContemporary Liberalism - Gary BrowningDemocracy - Nick HewlettLiberal and DirectCommunitarianism - Elizabeth FrazerNew Thinking in International Relations - Kimberly HutchingsUtopia and Dystopia - Stephen CrookPART TWO: THEMESPost-Modernity - David LyonGlobalization - Barrie AxfordRestructuring - Andy KilmisterCities in the Global Economy - Saskia SassenCultural Studies - Rick MaxwellIntellectuals - Carl BoggsHigher Education - Frank WebsterMass Communication - Kaarle NordenstrengThe Web - Vincent MoscoNationalism - Murray LowIslam - Sarah AnsariCultural Pluralism Today - Avigail EisenbergFamilies and Households - Mary MaynardThe Body - Chris ShillingIntimate Choices - Ken PlummerEnvironmentalism - David PepperSocial Movements - Abigail HalcliSocial Inequalities - Harriet BradleyComing to Terms with Complexity