Research Catalog

Title

The Blackwell companion to social theory / edited by Bryan S. Turner.

Publication

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Turner, Bryan S.

Description

xx, 570 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Blackwell companions to sociology

Uniform Title

Blackwell companions to sociology.

Subjects

• Sociology > Philosophy
• Social sciences > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Bryan S. Turner -- I. Foundations -- 1. The Foundations of Social Theory: Origins and Trajectories / Gerard Delanty -- 2. The Philosophy of Social Science / William Outhwaite -- II. Actions, Actors, Systems -- 3. Theories of Action and Praxis / Ira J. Cohen -- 4. Systems Theory and Functionalism / Frank J. Lechner -- 5. Psychoanalysis and Social Theory / Anthony Elliott -- 6. Structuralism / Roy Boyne -- III. Perspectives on Social and Cultural Analysis -- 7. Symbolic Interactionism in the Twentieth Century / Ken Plummer -- 8. Sociological Theory and Rational Choice Theory / Peter Abell -- 9. Anthropology and Social Theory / James D. Faubion -- 10. Phenomenology and Sociology / Steven Vaitkus -- 11. Feminisms of the Second Wave / Terry Lovell -- 12. Feminisms Transformed? Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism / Terry Lovell -- 13. Cultural Sociology and Cultural Sciences / Steven Connor -- IV. Perspectives on Time and Space -- 14. Historical Sociology / John Mandalios -- 15. Sociology of Time and Space / John Urry -- V. Contemporary Developments in Social Theory -- 16. Postmodern Social Theory / Barry Smart -- 17. An Outline of a General Sociology of the Body / Bryan S. Turner -- VI. Intellectuals and the Public Sphere -- 18. Social Theory and the Public Sphere / Craig Calboun.

ISBN

• 0631213651 (hb : alk. paper)
• 063121366X (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

99048589

OCLC

• 42463098
• ocm42463098
• SCSB-3841215

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries