Contemporary social and sociological theory : visualizing social worlds /: visualizing social worlds. ([2011])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kenneth Allan.
• Other Names: Allan, Kenneth, 1951-; Allan, Kenneth, 1951-
• Contents: Introduction (to be read): The Real You; Acknowledgments; Part I. Introduction; 1. In the Beginning There Was Modernity; 2. Defining Moments in 20th-Century Theory: Talcott Parsons and The Frankfurt School; Part II. The Social Situation and Its People; 3. Symbolic Interaction: Herbert Blumer (1900–1987); 4. Organizing Ordinary Life: Harold Garfinkel (1917–); 5. Performing the Self: Erving Goffman (1922–1982); 6. Social Exchanges: George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins; Elementary Forms of Social Behavior: George Homans (1910–1989); Social Exchanges and Power: Peter Blau (1918–2002); Ritualized Exchanges: Randall Collins (1941–); Part III. Social Structures and Systems; 7. Structures of Racial and Gender Inequality: William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz; The Declining Significance of Race: William Julius Wilson (1935–); The Structures of Gender Inequality: Janet Saltzman Chafetz (1942–2006); 8. Structuring Class: Pierre Bourdieu (1960–2002); 9. Global Capitalism: Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–); 10. The Network Society: Manuel Castells (1942–); Part IV: Modernity and Postmodernity; 11. Modernity and Reason: Jürgen Habermas (1929–); 12. Runaway Modernity: Anthony Giddens (1938–); 13. Defining the Possible and Impossible: Michel Foucault (1926–1984); 14. The End of Everything: Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007); Part V. Identity Politics; 15. Racial Wounds and the Niggerization of America: Cornel West (1953–); 16. Text, Power, and Women: Dorothy E. Smith (1926–); 17. Embodying Sex: Judith Butler (1956–); Glossary; References; Index; About the Author;
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (464 pages)
• Subjects: 301; Sociology; Sociology -- Philosophy; Sociologists
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483389493; 1483389499
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.