01882ctm a2200349 a 4500 17348326 20250312110450.0 ta 160906s2010 enka b 001 0 eng d 2012406183 9781847426758 (hbk.) : 1079.50 birr 9781847426758 (hbk.) 1847426743 (pbk.) (OCoLC)ocn466359665 BTCTA eng BTCTA YDXCP Z5U EYM CDX ERE BDX DLC lccopycat H61 .R2193 2010 300.1 22 Ransome, Paul. Social theory for beginners / [manuscript] / Paul Ransome. Bristol : Policy Press, c2010. xvi, 480 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-472) and index. Introduction: 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 post-modernity -- Reflexive modernisation: the global dimension and cultural theory -- The boundary problem in contemporary social theory. Social sciences Philosophy. 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg acquire 2 shelf copies policy default BK 9 5881 5881 0 0 0 0 EGSTL EGSTL CIRC 2025-03-09 0 300.1 Ran 2010 15812 2025-06-30 00:00:00 2025-03-09 BK