TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ransome, Paul
AU  - Ransome,Paul
TI  - Social Theory
SN  - 9788131604243
U1  - P09 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Jaipur
PB  - Rawat Publications
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; 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 postmodernity 
Reflexive modernisation: the global dimension and cultural theory 
The boundary problem in contemporary social theory
 


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