Current Perspectives in Social Theory – serie
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Current Perspectives in Social Theory
Inbunden, 1996
1610 kr
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This is the 16th volume in the series discussing a variety of topics in the field of current perspectives in social theory.
Current Perspectives in Social Theory
Inbunden, 1980
1555 kr
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Current Perspectives in Social Theory (CPST) presents essays on major issues in contemporary theoretical sociology, providing both critical overviews of major debates and original contributions by specialists working in social theory, sociological theory, and critical theory.
Current Perspectives in Social Theory
Inbunden, 1991
1738 kr
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This is the 18th volume in a series discussing a topics in social theory. It is divided into three parts which address: critical social theory beyond critical theory; critical social theory and contemporary social structures; and critical and contemporary social H locies.
Current Perspectives in Social Theory
Av Jennifer M. Lehmann, Ben Agger
Inbunden, 1999
1738 kr
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"Current Perspectives in Social Theory" presents essays on the major issues in contemporary theoretical work in sociology, providing both a critical overview of the development of major debates and original formulations by specialists working in various fields. Emphasis is put upon the presentation …
Current Perspectives in Social Theory
Inbunden, 2000
1161 kr
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Current Perspectives in Social Theory (CPST) presents essays on major issues in contemporary theoretical sociology, providing both critical overviews of major debates and original contributions by specialists working in social theory, sociological theory, and critical theory.
Bringing Capitalism Back for Critique by Social Theory
Inbunden, 2002
1470 kr
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Reflecting the cultural diversity in critical theory, Current perspectives in social theory presents work from a variety of theoretical traditions demonstrating the problems of sociological theorizing. Volume 21 echoes a current trend by publishing articles that reconsider Marx, Althusser and …
Critical Theory
Diverse Objects Diverse Subjects
Inbunden, 2002
1400 kr
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The contributions in this 22nd volume of "Current Perspectives in Social Theory" explore the arguments for and against a view of the world in which multiple, distinct and conflicting societies differ both over time and contemporaneously.
Social Theory as Politics in Knowledge
Inbunden, 2005
1738 kr
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This volume discusses, and manifests, three interrelated perspectives in social theory. First, that all knowledge, including scientific knowledge, is theoretical: there are alternative perspectives, or theories, about any phenomenon. Second, that all knowledge, including scientific knowledge is …
Globalization between the Cold War and Neo-Imperialism
Av Jennifer M. Lehmann, Harry F. Dahms
Inbunden, 2006
1646 kr
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This work contains an Introduction by Harry F. Dahms. It includes contents such as: Periodizing Globalization: From Cold War Modernization to the Bush Doctrine Robert J. Antonio and Alessandro Bonanno; Recognizing Empire: Alienation, Authority, and Delusions of Grandeur David Norman Smith; …
No Social Science without Critical Theory
Inbunden, 2008
1536 kr
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Since the linguistic turn in Frankfurt School critical theory during the 1970s, philosophical concerns have become increasingly important to its overall agenda, at the expense of concrete social-scientific inquiries. At the same time, each of the individual social sciences especially economics and …
Theorizing the Dynamics of Social Processes
Av Harry F. Dahms, Lawrence Hazelrigg
Inbunden, 2010
2086 kr
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The chapters in this volume represent steps in the direction of demonstrating the importance of efforts to theorize the dynamics of specific social, cultural, political, and/or economic processes to the social sciences in general. They aim to clarify how those efforts are central to the core …
Vitality of Critical Theory
Inbunden, 2011
1471 kr
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The common theme of this volume is that the critical theory of the Frankfurt School is as important today, if not more so, as it was at its inception during the 1930s. It looks at the distinguishing features of this tradition and how it is critical, yet also complementary, of other approaches in …
Diversity of Social Theories
Inbunden, 2011
1372 kr
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Since the time when Talcott Parsons pursued the project of one overarching "general theory of society", the landscape of social theory has vastly changed, and the pluralism and multidimensionality increased tremendously. Today, with so many different approaches in and to social theory, and multiple …
Recent Developments in the Theory of Social Structure
Av J. David Knottnerus, Christopher Prendergast
Inbunden, 1995
1555 kr
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"Recent Developments in the Theory of Social Structure" is an integrated collection of essays reviewing and assessing progress in social structural analysis since 1970. Organizationally, the book is divided into six parts corresponding to six analytical levels of social structure: social …
Theorizing Modern Society as a Dynamic Process
Av Harry F. Dahms, Lawrence Hazelrigg
Inbunden, 2012
1217 kr
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While it was evident to the classics of social theory that modern societies are highly dynamic forms of social organization, and that this dynamic nature must be reflected explicitly and confronted directly in modes of analysis across the social sciences, over the course of the twentieth century, …
No Social Science without Critical Theory
Häftad, 2012
555 kr
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Since the linguistic turn in Frankfurt School critical theory during the 1970s, philosophical concerns have become increasingly important to its overall agenda, at the expense of concrete social-scientific inquiries. At the same time, each of the individual social sciences especially economics and …
Social Theories of History and Histories of Social Theory
Inbunden, 2013
1760 kr
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In different ways, social theory and social history represent discourses that implicitly or explicitly highlight the need to apply perspectives on modern social realities that are conducive to discerning and scrutinizing the centrality of large-scale processes that have been influencing and shaping …
Mediations of Social Life in the 21st Century
Inbunden, 2014
1709 kr
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Since the beginning of the modern age, studies of ongoing transformations of social life, human sociality, and social relations and institutions have been at the forefront of social theory, alongside changes in politics, culture, and economy - and links between all of the above. In the twenty-first …
States and Citizens
Accommodation, Facilitation and Resistance to Globalization
Av Jon Shefner
Inbunden, 2015
1526 kr
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Globalization has been subjected to a variety of analyses over the past thirty years, ranging from examinations of homogenizing cultural trends to the pressures of economic austerity and trade relations to the declining influence of states. This volume examines how states and citizens have been …
Globalization, Critique and Social Theory
Diagnoses and Challenges
Inbunden, 2015
1526 kr
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In recent years, under the impression and the burden of globalization and neoliberalism, debates about the relationship between the theory and practice of progress - including the theory and practice of social critique - have gone through an unexpected and momentous revival, renewal and …
Reconstructing Social Theory, History and Practice
Av Harry F. Dahms, Eric R. Lybeck
Inbunden, 2016
1442 kr
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With regard to developments in social theory, the past 30 years can be characterized as an Age of Deconstruction. Inspired by post-structuralism, postmodernism, critical theory, and science studies, as well as combinations of related approaches, theorists have endeavored to shatter historical …
Challenge of Progress
Theory Between Critique and Ideology
Inbunden, 2019
1173 kr
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Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. In recent decades, this has cast doubt over the validity and reliability of many working assumptions about the nature and logic of progress in modern societies, at all …
Planetary Sociology
Beyond the Entanglement of Identity and Social Structure
Inbunden, 2023
1341 kr
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In Planetary Sociology: Beyond the Entanglement of Identity and Social Structure, Harry F. Dahms gathers a team of interdisciplinary junior social scientists who examine their individual identity as being shaped by specific social contexts such as nationality, class, and race, to scrutinize how …
Society in Flux
Two Centuries of Social Theory
Inbunden, 2021
1118 kr
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The defining feature of modern society is change - it never rests or provides its members or researchers the comfort and certainty of having attained an adequate understanding of its operations, how it functions, or where it is. Society in Flux: Two Centuries of Social Theory traces how tensions …
Centrality of Sociality
Responses to Michael E. Brown’s The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and the Humanities
Av Jeffrey A. Halley, Harry F. Dahms
Inbunden, 2022
1187 kr
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What do we mean by the word “social?” In The Centrality of Sociality, scholars respond to themes of The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and Humanities in dialogue with Michael E. Brown.The Centrality of Sociality provides analyses of important distinctions between individual …
Mad Hazard
A Life in Social Theory
Inbunden, 2022
1187 kr
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Mad Hazard is a memoir of the career and life of Stephen Turner, chronicling a life in social theory. Showcasing how Turner’s later work on expertise, tacit knowledge, cognitive science, leadership, and liberal democracy developed out of his early interests, this volume describes the institutional …
Insecurity and the Eclipse of Enlightenment
Av Harry F. Dahms, Daniel Krier m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1273 kr
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Looking back upon the first quarter of the twenty-first century, two themes have risen to the top of the social theory agenda and are likely to continue to become more pronounced: the proliferating sense and reality of insecurity, and the accelerating eclipse of enlightenment.Thus far, this century …
Future of Agency
Between Autonomy and Heteronomy
Inbunden, 2025
1339 kr
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In this thought-provoking volume, leading scholars address the multifaceted concept of agency, dissecting its significance, applications, and challenges across various domains, and situate agency in changing socio-historical contexts in which individuals as members of larger groups try to reconcile …
Nature, Knowledge and Negation
Inbunden, 2009
1355 kr
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The first emphasis of the volume is on developments in the social theory of environmental issues, the environment, and the environmental crisis. The second emphasis is on the increasingly questionable possibility of shared knowledge at a time of increasing fragmentation of common frameworks, …
