Politics and Social Theory

ISBN-13: 9780415678957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 178 str.

Peter Lassman

Opis

These contributions, by international scholars, reflect the re-examination of the boundaries between the 'political' and the 'social', the 'public' and 'private', and 'state' and 'society'. There issue will be of great value to students in both sociology and political science.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Politics and Social Theory  2. Vocabularies of the State  3. Marxism, Democracy and the Public Sphere  4. Class Analysis as Social Theory  5. States, Populations and Productivity: Towards a Political Theory of Welfare States  6. Foucault: Power and Politics  7. Women, Welfare and the Politics of Need Interpretation  8. Socialism as a Sociological Problem  9. Postmodernity and Contemporary Social Thought

O autorze

Peter Lassman