Social Theory Today by Anthony Giddens
Social theory has undergone dramatic changes over the past fifteen years. The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive survey of those changes, and an authoritative statement on current trends of development in social thought. The contents of the book range in a systematic way across the major traditions of social theory prominent today. Among the topics covered are the relationships between modern social theory and the 'classics' of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the connections between social theory and mathematical social science; and the logical status of generalizations in the social sciences. Traditions of thought discussed include: behaviourism; symbolic interactionism; Parsonian theory; analytical theory; structuralism and post-structuralism; ethnomethodology; structuration theory; world systems theory; Marxism and critical theory.Former director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, Anthony Giddens He has since been elected to the House of Lords. The Third Way and Europe in the Global Age are two of his many books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780804713979 |
| ISBN 10 | 0804713979 |
| Title | Social Theory Today |
| Author | Anthony Giddens |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press |
| Year published | 1987-06-18 |
| Number of pages | 436 |
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