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Pattern and Meaning in History (RLE Social Theory)
Wilhelm Dilthey's Thoughts on History and Society
Av H.P. Rickman
Häftad, 2015
505 kr
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'One may state Dilthey's significance in most general fashion by characterizing his work as the first thorough-going and sophisticated confrontation of history with positivism and natural science. Dilthey's sweep was universal: he strove to reduce to order the multifarious realms of knowledge, the …
Interests and the Growth of Knowledge (RLE Social Theory)
Av Barry Barnes
Häftad, 2015
798 kr
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Intriguingly different in approach from conventional works in the same area of inquiry, this study deals with the central problems and concerns of the sociology of knowledge as it has traditionally been conceived of. In other words, it is concerned with the relationship of knowledge, social …
Advances in Social Theory and Methodology (RLE Social Theory)
Toward an Integration of Micro- and Macro-Sociologies
Av Karin Knorr Cetina, A.V. Cicourel
Inbunden, 2014
2526 kr
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After a period in which sociology was torn apart by the polarized claims of micro- and macro-methodology, an increasing number of sociologists are now attempting a fusion of the two approaches. In this volume, some of the most distinguished sociologists set out possible resolutions of the debate. …
Agency and Structure (RLE Social Theory)
Reorienting Social Theory
Inbunden, 2014
2526 kr
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A striking feature of the human condition is its dual, contradictory, inherently split character; on the one hand, autonomy and freedom; on the other, constraint and dependence on social structure. This volume addresses this central problem of the linkage between human action and social structure …
Animals and Society (RLE Social Theory)
The Humanity of Animal Rights
Av Keith Tester
Inbunden, 2014
2526 kr
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Animals and Society uses a variety of historical sources and a coherent social theory to tell the story of the invention of animal rights. It moves from incidents like the medieval execution of pigs to a discussion of the politics and strategies of modern rights organisations. The book also …
Back to the Future (RLE Social Theory)
Modernity, Postmodernity and Locality
Av Philip Cooke
Inbunden, 2014
2145 kr
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Is modernity being replaced by an opposite culture of postmodernity, or is postmodernism simply an internal critique of modernist culture? This key question is central to this stimulating book which explores the transformations taking place in social life, cultural preferences, economic …
Baudrillard (RLE Social Theory)
Critical and Fatal Theory
Av Mike Gane
Inbunden, 2014
2526 kr
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Baudrillard is widely recognised as a powerful new force in cultural and social criticism, and is often referred to as the ‘High Priest of Postmodernism’. This study presents a detached assessment of his social thought and his reputation, challenging the way his work has been received in …
Capital, Labour and the Middle Classes (RLE Social Theory)
Av John Urry, Nicholas Abercrombie
Inbunden, 2014
2145 kr
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Most recent sociological work on the theory of class is based on a distinction between Weberian and Marxist approaches. For the first part of this volume, the authors use this distinction to review the literature on the middle class, concentrating particularly on the traditions of Marxist theory …
Capitalism, Class Conflict and the New Middle Class (RLE Social Theory)
Av Bob Carter
Inbunden, 2014
2526 kr
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Non-manual workers are fast becoming the largest occupational category in Western capitalist countries. This is the first book to present a detailed socialist analysis of this much discussed change in the class structure of contemporary capitalism.Focusing on the class position of managerial and …
Choice, Rationality and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory)
Inbunden, 2014
2085 kr
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Choice, Rationality and Social Theory is a powerful rebuttal of the remarkably influential theories underlying 'rational choice analysis'. Rational choice analysis maintains that social life is principally to be explained as the outcome of rational choices on the part of individual actors. …
Civil Society (RLE Social Theory)
Av Keith Tester
Inbunden, 2014
1237 kr
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This major study discusses some of the meanings and preconditions of freedom, responsibility and social order. The author argues that these are problems of modernity. The imagination of civil society created a milieu which was at once the location and defence of social self-sufficiency in the …
Flaneur (RLE Social Theory)
Av Keith Tester
Inbunden, 2014
2526 kr
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Timely and original, this collection of essays from the leading figures in their fields throws new and valuable light on the significance and future of flânerie. The flâneur is usually identified as the ‘man of the crowd’ of Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Baudelaire, and as one of the heroes of Walter …
Class and Space (RLE Social Theory)
The Making of Urban Society
Av Nigel Thrift, Peter Williams
Inbunden, 2014
2145 kr
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This book is abut the place of space in the study of class formation. It consists of a set of papers that fix on different aspects of the human geography of class formation at different points in the history of Britain and the United States over the course of the last 200 years. The book shows that …
Concepts and Society (RLE Social Theory)
Inbunden, 2014
2455 kr
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The main concern of Dr Jarvie’s book is the relation of belief to action. He argues that people act in society because of beliefs, because of ‘the way they see things’. There is the world of physical and social conditioning – where fixed roles, tropisms, adaptations seem to operate; there is the …
Family, Politics, and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory)
Inbunden, 2014
2526 kr
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This book explores and clarifies all the major issues and developments within ‘family theorising’. It covers the extraordinary growth and variety of approaches to the family over the last decade, the most significant being the impact of feminism and the professional and state intervention into the …
Social Theory and the Family (RLE Social Theory)
Inbunden, 2014
2526 kr
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An experienced teacher of courses on the sociology of the family, D.H.J. Morgan frequently encounters a gulf between ‘the family’ as it is often treated in sociological texts and ‘the family’ as it is usually experienced. In this book he provides an extremely valuable bridge between the two by …
Functionalism, Exchange and Theoretical Strategy (RLE Social Theory)
Inbunden, 2014
2526 kr
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M.J. Mulkay traces the development of certain recent versions of functionalism and exchange theory in sociology, with special attention to 'theoretical strategy'. He uses this term to refer to the policies which theorists adopt to ensure that their work contributes to their long range theoretical …
Science and the Sociology of Knowledge (RLE Social Theory)
Inbunden, 2014
2145 kr
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How far is scientific knowledge a product of social life? In addressing this question, the major contributors to the sociology of knowledge have agreed that the conclusions of science are dependent on social action only in a very special and limited sense. In Science and the Sociology of Knowledge …
Social Philosophy (RLE Social Theory)
Av Hans Fink
Inbunden, 2014
2145 kr
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The programmes of political parties and movements are attempts to formulate policies or guidelines in relation to social change. Social philosophy concerns the fundamental issues on which those programmes divide. This introductory work gives an account of several highly influential systems of …
Social Theory and Political Practice (RLE Social Theory)
Av Brian Fay
Inbunden, 2014
2145 kr
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This book examines the question of how our knowledge of social life affects, and ought to affect, our way of living it. In so doing, it critically discusses two epistemological models of social science – the positivist and the interpretive – from the viewpoint of the political theories which, it is …
Sociological Theory in Transition (RLE Social Theory)
Av Mark Wardell, Stephen Turner
Inbunden, 2014
1530 kr
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Current sociological theories appear to have lost their general persuasiveness in part because, unlike the theories of the ‘classical era’, they fail to maintain an integrated stance toward society, and the practical role that sociology plays in society. The authors explore various facets of this …
Sociological Theory in Use (RLE Social Theory)
Inbunden, 2014
2526 kr
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Central to most sociologists’ self-image is the claim that their theories are based on research. However, using a random sample of 680 articles appearing in major American, British and Canadian journals, Dr Menzies shows that in some areas of sociology the wide gap between theory and research means …
Talcott Parsons and the Social Image of Man (RLE Social Theory)
Av Ken Menzies
Inbunden, 2014
2145 kr
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This account of Talcott Parsons’s work clarifies his basic concepts and sets out their correlation. Dr Menzies believes that the philosophy of science working within the confines of the analytic-synthetic distinction tends to provide a rigid, static and sterile account of theories. He presents a …
Structuralist Analysis in Contemporary Social Thought (RLE Social Theory)
A Comparison of the Theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Louis Althusser
Inbunden, 2014
2145 kr
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The primary concern of this book is to investigate whether or not structuralism constitutes a distinctive framework in the social sciences. The author focuses on two major structuralist thinkers, Louis Althusser and Claude Lévi-Strauss. She analyses and compares the structure of their theory, and …
Structure, Interaction and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory)
Av Derek Layder
Inbunden, 2014
2145 kr
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A central problem in contemporary social theory is that of providing an account of social interaction that does justice both to the self-monitoring capacities of the individuals involved and to the society that ‘frames’ the interaction. This book attempts to resolve this problem, arguing for an …
Talcott Parsons and the Conceptual Dilemma (RLE Social Theory)
Inbunden, 2014
2526 kr
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This systematic analysis of the nature and development of Talcott Parson’s theory of action offers first an introduction to the conceptual paradigm upon which this theory is based – an introduction, that is, which will make Parson’s writing more easily accessible. Second, the book gives an …
Theories of Industrial Society (RLE Social Theory)
Inbunden, 2014
2145 kr
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The concept of industrial society plays a dominant role in the social sciences. The ‘Great Divide’ between pre-industrial and industrial societies is commonly assumed to be the main bridge separating modern societies from the past, and distinguishing ‘developed’ from ‘undeveloped’ states in the …
Classes, Strata and Power (RLE Social Theory)
Inbunden, 2014
2145 kr
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Professor Wesolowski presents a detailed study of Marx's theory of class structure and compares it with non-Marxist theories of social stratification, in particular the functionalist theory of stratification and the theory of power elite. He is also concerned to develop and extend the Marxist …
Conservative Capitalism in Britain and the United States (RLE Social Theory)
A Critical Appraisal
Av Raymond Plant, Kenneth Hoover
Inbunden, 2014
2526 kr
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The shock waves of conservative advances have reached into every corner of American and British politics. Parties of the right have prospered, while parties of the left have stumbled, retreated, and are now regrouping. The agenda for both right and left is set by the terms of the free-market …
Field-theory
A Study of its Application in the Social Sciences
Av Harald Mey
Inbunden, 2014
2455 kr
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This is an important account of the development of the ‘field-theory’ approach in the social sciences. Harald Mey concentrates on the writers from the 1930s to the present day who have used this approach to the study of the individual and of society, and gives a clear exposition of such …
