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Contemporary social and sociological theory: visualizing social worlds/ Kenneth Allan

By: Allan,KennethMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2013Edition: 3rd edDescription: 465 pISBN: 9781412992770Subject(s): Sociology | Sociology -- Philosophy | SociologistsDDC classification: 301

Contents:

Introductions. In the beginning was modernity -- Defining moments in twentieth-century theory / Talcott Parsons and the Frankfurt School -- Individuals and situations. The language of the self / Herbert Blumer -- Imaging the self / Erving Goffman -- Achieving social order / Harold Garfinkel -- Social exchanges / George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins -- Social structures and systems. Structures of racial and gender inequality / William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz -- Structuring class / Pierre Bourdieu -- Structures of power / Michel Foucault -- World systems theory / Immanuel Wallerstein -- The network society / Manuel Castells -- Modernity : possibilities and problems. Reason and democracy / Jurgen Habermas -- Civil society and democracy / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- Runaway modernity / Anthony Giddens -- Contemporary political identities. Being Black in America / Patricia Hill Collins and Cornel West -- Text, power, and women / Dorothy E. Smith -- Exposing sex / Judith Butler -- Conclusion : post-thinking.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	301 ALL/C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	08/02/2021	P29545

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Introductions. In the beginning was modernity --
Defining moments in twentieth-century theory / Talcott Parsons and the Frankfurt School --
Individuals and situations. The language of the self / Herbert Blumer --
Imaging the self / Erving Goffman --
Achieving social order / Harold Garfinkel --
Social exchanges / George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins --
Social structures and systems. Structures of racial and gender inequality / William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz --
Structuring class / Pierre Bourdieu --
Structures of power / Michel Foucault --
World systems theory / Immanuel Wallerstein --
The network society / Manuel Castells --
Modernity : possibilities and problems. Reason and democracy / Jurgen Habermas --
Civil society and democracy / Jeffrey C. Alexander --
Runaway modernity / Anthony Giddens --
Contemporary political identities. Being Black in America / Patricia Hill Collins and Cornel West --
Text, power, and women / Dorothy E. Smith --
Exposing sex / Judith Butler --
Conclusion : post-thinking.

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