Joe Bailey is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology and previous Head of the School of Social Science at Kingston University UK. He is the author of Ideas and Intervention (1980), Pessimism (1988) and Social Europe (ed 1992: 1998). He was educated at the University of Kent and The London School of Economics. Social Theory for Planning was an outcome of a course taught in the Planning Department of the Architectural Association in London in the early 1970s.

• Preface and Acknowledgments. 1. The Context of Social Theory 2. The Uses of Knowledge 3. Social Change and Evolutionary Theory 4. Systems Theory 5. Conflict Theory 6. Interpretative Sociology 7. Urban Sociology at a ‘High’ Level 8. Urban Sociology at a ‘Low’ Level 9. Social Theory, Social Problems and Social Control. Bibliography. Index.

Joe Bailey is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology and previous Head of the School of Social Science at Kingston University UK. He is the author of Ideas and Intervention (1980), Pessimism (1988) and Social Europe (ed 1992: 1998). He was educated at the University of Kent and The London School of Economics. Social Theory for Planning was an outcome of a course taught in the Planning Department of the Architectural Association in London in the early 1970s.

• Preface and Acknowledgments. 1. The Context of Social Theory 2. The Uses of Knowledge 3. Social Change and Evolutionary Theory 4. Systems Theory 5. Conflict Theory 6. Interpretative Sociology 7. Urban Sociology at a ‘High’ Level 8. Urban Sociology at a ‘Low’ Level 9. Social Theory, Social Problems and Social Control. Bibliography. Index.