Key Sociological Thinkers

ISBN-13: 9781137332226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 478 str.

Rob Stones; Bob Jessop; Craig Browne

Opis

This is a stimulating guide to the lives, works and legacies of 24 of the most influential thinkers in sociology. The book gives a clear and contextualized introduction to classical and contemporary theory, illuminating complex ideas with examples from the everyday world. It continues to be an essential text for all students of sociological theory.

Spis treści

Introduction; Rob Stones PART I 1. Karl Marx; Bob Jessop After Marx: Culture and Politics in 20th and 21st Century Marxism: Antonio Gramsci & Ernesto Laclau 2. Max Weber; Lawrence Scaff 3. Emile Durkheim; Edward Tiryakian 4. Georg Simmel; Patrick Watier 5. W.E.B. DuBois; Reiland Rabaka 6. G.H Mead; Filipe Carreira da Silva 7. Talcott Parsons; Robert Holton PART II 8. Robert K. Merton; Piotr Sztompka After Merton: Structural Thinking in the 21st Century: Ulrich Beck 9. Norbert Elias; Jason Hughes 10. Erving Goffman; Susie Scott 11. Harold Garfinkel; John Heritage 12. Louis Althusser; Ted Benton After Althusser: State Theory: Nicos Poulantzas & Bob Jessop 13. Jurgen Habermas; William Outhwaite After Habermas: Critical Theory and Recognition: Nancy Fraser & Axel Honneth 14. Pierre Bourdieu; Derek Robbins After Bourdieu: Adding Morals and Emotions to Habitus: Andrew Sayer 15. Michel Foucault; Lawrence Barth PART III 16. Dorothy Smith; Karin Widerberg 17. Stuart Hall; Michèle Barrett 18. Nancy Chodorow; Karin Martin Before and After Chodorow: Fruitful Dialectics in Feminist Thought: Simone de Beauvoir & Carol Gilligan 19. Anthony Giddens; Craig Browne After Giddens: Social and System Integration: Nicos Mouzelis 20. Michael Mann; Ralph Schroeder Before Mann: The Tradition of Historical Sociology: Barrington Moore & Theda Skocpol 22. Zygmunt Bauman; Tony Blackshaw 16. Arlie Hochschild; Simon Williams 23. Bruno Latour; Steve Matthewman 24. Jeffrey Alexander; Jason Mast

O autorze

Rob Stones is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University. He has a broad interest in social, sociological and political theory, their application in empirical research, and their importance to serious reflection on public issues. He has pioneered the version of structuration theory known as strong structuration theory (SST), designed to guide empirical case study research and adopted in diverse areas. His books include Sociological Reasoning (1996), Structuration Theory (2005), and Why Current Affairs Needs Social Theory (2015). He is the editor of two book series with Palgrave Macmillan, Themes in Social Theory and Traditions in Social Theory.

Blurb

Key Sociological Thinkers provides a clear and contextualised overview of the best of sociological thought. Written by leading academics, it offers stimulating and insightful assessments of 24 of the most influential thinkers in sociology: from Marx, Weber and Simmel to Chodorow, Foucault and Bauman. In addition, there are extended glossary accounts of thirteen additional theorists who have influenced, or been influenced by, these key thinkers.

The third edition of this popular and established text is updated to cover the lives, works and legacies of Mead, Du Bois, Latour and Alexander, and to include five newly-authored chapters on Durkheim, Merton, Goffman, Bourdieu and Giddens. It contains a major new introduction, linking sociological theory to events and processes in three different historical periods of modernity.

With frameworks for deep learning around group discussion, and much-valued ‘Seeing Things Differently’ sections to demonstrate how each thinker’s ideas can be used to illuminate aspects of social life in new ways, this continues be an essential text for all students of sociological theory.

Online-only chapters on Adorno, Blumer, De Beauvoir, Freud and Lockwood can be found on www.macmillanihe.com/stones