A Beginners Guide to Social Theory
A Beginners Guide to Social Theory
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Summary
Best offers a comprehensive overview of social theory from classical sociology to the present day. The reader is guided through the work of Durkheim, Marx and Weber and contemporary thinkers like Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Gilles Deluze, Manuel Castells, Luce Irigary, Naomi Woolf and Camille Paglia.
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A Beginners Guide to Social Theory by Shaun Best
Best offers a comprehensive overview of social theory from classical sociology to the present day. The reader is guided through the work of Durkheim, Marx and Weber and contemporary thinkers like Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Gilles Deluze, Manuel Castells, Luce Irigary, Naomi Woolf and Camille Paglia.
`This book is accessible, as a beginner′s guide should be, but without an over-simplification of the argumentsIt should prove an immensely durable text for generations of students to come′ - John Hughes, Professor of Sociological Analysis, Lancaster University
Shaun Best is a Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Manchester, and author of Understanding Social Divisions, (2005) and A Beginner′s Guide to Social Theory (2003, both SAGE).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780761965336 |
| ISBN 10 | 0761965335 |
| Title | A Beginners Guide to Social Theory |
| Author | Shaun Best |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Sage Publications Ltd |
| Year published | 2003-02-24 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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