Social Theory Today - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804715149 ISBN 13: 9780804715140

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1988

Synopsis

Social theory has undergone dramatic changes over the past fifteen years. The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive survey of those changes and an authoritative statement on current trends of development in social thought.

The contents of the book range in a systematic way across the major traditions of social theory prominent today. Among the topics covered are the relationships between modern social theory and the 'classics' of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the connections between social theory and mathematical social science; and the logical status of generalizations in the social sciences. Traditions of thought discussed include: behaviourism; symbolic interactionism; Parsonian theory; analytical theory; structuralism and post-structuralism; ethnomethodology; structuration theory; world systems theory; Marxism and critical theory.

The highly distinguished group of contributors comprises Jeffrey Alexander, Ira Cohen, Anthony Giddens, John Heritage, George Homans, Axel Honneth, Hans Joas, Ralph Milipand, R. Munch, Jonathan H. Turner, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Thomas Wilson.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0804715149
• ISBN 13: 9780804715140
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 434
• Editor: Giddens Anthony