TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ransome,Paul
TI  - Social theory for beginners
SN  - 9781847426758 (hbk.)
U1  - 300.1 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Bristol
PB  - Policy Press
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-472) and index; Introduction: who is this book for and how do I use it? -- What is social theory? -- Where did social theory come from? -- Emile Durkheim and the coming of industrial society -- Karl Marx, capitalism and revolution -- Max Weber, rational capitalism and social action -- Talcott Parsons, functionalism and the social system -- Social interactionism and the real lives of social actors -- Western Marxism, Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt School -- Language, structure, meaning -- Discourse and power: Post-structuralist social theory -- Feminist social theory -- Reviving theories of modernity: Habermas, Giddens and Bourdieu -- Theories of modernity and post-modernity -- Reflexive modernisation: the global dimension and cultural theory -- The boundary problem in contemporary social theory
ER  -