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Modernity after postmodernism

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posted on 2023-06-26, 07:13 authored by Gerard Delanty
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the core topics, theories and debates in modern social theory. Fourteen chapters have been written by leading specialists in the field, providing up-to-date guidance on the full sweep of the modern sociological imagination, from the legacies of the classical figures of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel and Parsons to the work of cutting-edge contemporary theorists. Separate chapters discuss functionalism and its critics, interpretive and interactionist theory, historical social theory, western Marxism, psychoanalytic social theory, structuralism and post-structuralism, structure and agency theory, feminist social theory, postmodernism and its critics, and theories about globalization. All chapters are supplied with questions for discussion, study boxes, guidance on further reading and useful website addresses. It is ideal for students of sociology and cultural studies pursuing foundational courses in the history and theory of social analysis, and is also accessible for the general reader.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Page range

273-291

Pages

19

Book title

Modern Social Theory

Place of publication

Oxford

ISBN

9780200000000

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  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Austin Harrington

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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