Rethinking Social Theory
Author: Roger Sibeon
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2004-03-27
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780761950691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdentifies and explores unresolved controversies and ambiguities in present day sociological theorizing.
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Rethinking Sociological Theory
Author: Stephen K. Sanderson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-11-17
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1317252780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStephen K. Sanderson s latest book recaptures a scientific theoretical sociology, one whose fundamental aim is the formulation of real theories that can be empirically tested. Sanderson reviews the major theoretical traditions within contemporary sociology, explicating their key principles, critically evaluating these principles and their applications, and showcasing exemplars. He judges each tradition by asking whether it has generated falsifiable research programs. Although principally a work of theoretical critique, "Rethinking Sociological Theory" is also a valuable textbook for both undergraduate and graduate courses in sociological theory."
From Anthropology to Social Theory
Author: Arpad Szakolczai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-17
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1108423809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rethinking of contemporary social theory that provides a vision about the modern world through key ideas developed by 'maverick' anthropologists.
Rethinking Social Theory
Author: Roger Sibeon
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2004-02-24
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1847871615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoger Sibeon′s distinctive new book forms part of a movement towards what many others have referred to as the `return′ to sociological theory and method. Offering both description and critique of contemporary theoretical and illustrative empirical materials, the goal of this book is a renewal of sociology and social theory that will facilitate worthwhile social knowledge that contributes to an understanding of the practical problems of making sense of social theory.
Illuminating Social Life
Author: Peter Kivisto
Publisher: Pine Forge Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 1412978157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIlluminating Social Life has enjoyed increasing popularity with each edition. It is the only book designed for undergraduate teaching that shows today's students how classical and contemporary social theories can be used to shed new light on such topics as the internet, the world of work, fast food restaurants, shopping malls, alcohol use, body building, sales and service, and new religious movements.A perfect complement for the sociological theory course, it offers 13 original essays by leading scholars in the field who are also experienced undergraduate theory teachers. Substantial introductions by the editor link the applied essays to a complete review of the classical and modern social theories used in the book.
Revisiting Social Theory
Author: D.V. Kumar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-04-08
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1040017207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book revisits social theory with a view to highlighting certain essential features of ‘good’ social theory: its ability to raise certain questions, its explanatory power, its critical and reflexive interrogation of concepts, its search for objectivity, its concern to make sense of empirical data and its aim of projecting some degree of generality and abstraction. With particular attention to issues of nationalism, democracy, civil society, state, feminism, neoliberalism, minority rights, environment and North-East Indian society, it considers whether new and more relevant theoretical questions need to be asked. It will therefore appeal to scholars of social theory and political sociology with interests in new approaches to social theory and the development of local or ‘indigenous’ social thought.
Revisiting Vygotsky for Social Change
Author: Adolfo Tanzi Neto
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781433170386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book adds critical and social perspectives to Vygotsky's initial principles to expand his legacy to global contemporary needs such as a critical reflection from the perspective of social change, ethical-political situations of action power, and awareness of the social environment to actively change the existing forms of life.
Critical Social Theory and the End of Work
Author: Edward Granter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-22
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1317157028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritical Social Theory and the End of Work examines the development and sociological significance of the idea that work is being eliminated through the use of advanced production technology. Granter’s engagement with the work of key American and European figures such as Marx, Marcuse, Gorz, Habermas and Negri, focuses his arguments for the abolition of labour as a response to the current socio-historical changes affecting our work ethic and consumer ideology. By combining history of ideas with social theory, this book considers how the 'end of work' thesis has developed and has been critically implemented in the analysis of modern society. This book will appeal to scholars of sociology, history of ideas, social and cultural theory as well as those working in the fields of critical management and sociology of work.
Rethinking Contemporary Social Theory
Author: Roberta Garner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-19
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1317252837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors recontextualize contemporary sociological theory to argue that in recent decades sociology has been deeply permeated by a new paradigm, conflict constructionism. Their analysis integrates and sheds new light on eight prominent domains of recent social thought: the micro-level; discourses, framing, and renewed interest in signs and language; the construction of difference and dominance; regulation and punishment; cultural complexity and transculturation; the body; new approaches to the role of the state; and a consistent conflict perspective. The paradigm combines elements of both social construction theory and conflict theory. It has deep roots in critical theory and more recent links to postmodernism. It is associated with postmodern social thought, although it is less radical and more adaptable to empirical inquiry than postmodernism. The authors tie their new conceptualization of social theory to contemporary applications of social theory in everyday life. Features of this text:
Revisiting Institutionalism in Sociology
Author: Seth Abrutyn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-07
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1134463499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere may not be a concept so central to sociology, yet so vaguely defined in its contemporary usages, than institution. In Revisiting Institutionalism in Sociology, Abrutyn takes an in-depth look at what institutions are by returning to some of the insights of classical theorists like Max Weber and Herbert Spencer, the functionalisms of Talcott Parsons and S.N. Eisenstadt, and the more recent evolutionary institutionalisms of Gerhard Lenski and Jonathan Turner. Returning to the idea that various levels of social reality shape societies, Abrutyn argues that institutions are macro-level structural and cultural spheres of action, exchange, and communication. They have emergent properties and dynamics that are not reducible to other levels of social reality. Rather than fall back on old functionalist solutions, Abrutyn offers an original and synthetic theory of institutions like religion or economy; the process by which they become autonomous, or distinct cultural spaces that shape the color and texture of action, exchange, and communication embedded within them; and how they gain or lose autonomy by theorizing about institutional entrepreneurship. Finally, Abrutyn lays bare the inner workings of institutions, including their ecology, the way structure and culture shape lower-levels of social reality, and how they develop unique patterns of stratification and inequality founded on their ecology, structure, and culture. Ultimately, Abrutyn offers a refreshing take on macrosociology that brings functionalist, conflict, and cultural sociologies together, while painting a new picture of how the seemingly invisible macro-world influences the choices humans make and the goals we set.
