TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ransome, Paul
TI  - Social theory for beginners
SN  - 9781847426741
U1  - 300.1 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - UK
PB  - Policy Press
KW  - Social sciences -- Philosophy.
KW  - Sociology -- Philosophy
N1  - 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 modernization: the global dimension and cultural theory; 
The boundary problem in contemporary social theory
ER  -