Contemporary Social and Sociological Theory: Visualizing Social Worlds

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Pine Forge Press, 2006 - 455 pages
This social theory textbook introduces undergraduates to a multitude of different theorists. Their contributions to contemporary social and sociological theory are presented around nine distinct theoretical ideas.
 

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Contents

Mead 18631931 and Herbert Blumer 19001987
5
Building Your Theory Toolbox
6
The Necessary Self
13
Empiricism and Symbolic Interactionism
19
Peter Berger 1929
27
Web Byte Stuart Hall and Reading Culture Through
46
Erving Goffman 19221982
73
Randall Collins 1941
95
Anthony Giddens 1938
263
Jacques Derrida 19302004
311
Jean Baudrillard 1929
331
IDENTITY POLITICS
353
Dorothy E Smith 1926
383
Judith Butler 1956
403
On Being Unsettled
425
References
437

INTRODUCTION TO SECTION
119
Janet Saltzman Chafetz 1942
147
Pierre Bourdieu 19302002
169
Global Capitalism and the Decline of American
191
Index
447
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About the Author
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About the author (2006)

Kenneth Allan is Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of California at Riverside, 1995). Most recent teaching is in the areas of: Sociological Theory, Social Psychology, and Sociology of Culture. He has published numerous articles in theory, and a book in 1998, The Meaning of Culture, explicating cultural theory. He also contributed to Turner's last two editions of The Structure of Sociological Theory. Over the past eight years he has taught well over 30 courses in social theory.

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TitleContemporary Social and Sociological Theory: Visualizing Social Worlds
AuthorKenneth Allan
Editionillustrated
PublisherPine Forge Press, 2006
ISBN1412913624, 9781412913621
Length455 pages
  
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