An Invitation to Social Theory

David Inglis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2024 | 3rd edition
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-6467-5 (ISBN)

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Social theory is a crucial resource for the social sciences. It provides rich insights into how human beings think and act and how contemporary social life is constructed. But often the key ideas of social theorists are expressed in highly technical and difficult language that can hide more than it reveals.

The new edition of this popular book continues to cut to the core of what social theory is about. Wide-ranging in scope and coverage, it is concise in presentation and free from jargon. Covering key themes and schools of thought from the classical thinkers up to the present, the third edition features a new chapter dedicated to post-colonial sociological theory. With updated literature and examples throughout, the book also includes refreshed pedagogical features to connect theory to readers’ own life experiences.

Showing why social theory matters, and why it is of far-reaching social and political importance, the book is ideal for readers seeking a clear, crisp mapping of a complex but very rewarding area.

David Inglis is Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki. Christopher Thorpe is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Exeter.

Introduction

1 Classical Social Theory
2 Functionalist and Systems Theory
3 Marxist and Critical Theory
4 Phenomenological Theory
5 Symbolic Interactionist Theory
6 Process Sociological Theory
7 Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Theory
8 Post-Modernist Theory
9 Structuration Theory
10 Feminist Theory
11 Actor-Network Theory
12 Globalization Theory
13 Post-Colonial Theory

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.11.2024
Co-Autor	Christopher Thorpe
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-5095-6467-5 / 1509564675
ISBN-13	978-1-5095-6467-5 / 9781509564675
Zustand	Neuware