Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-0-7456-3981-9
Paperback
248 pages
January 2010, Polity
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Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
1. A Timeless Order and its Achievement: Structuralism and Genetic Structuralism
2. The Biological Metaphor: Functionalism and Neo-functionalism
3. The Enigma of Everyday Life: Symbolic Interactionism, the Dramaturgical Approach and Ethnomethodology
4. The Invasion of Economic Man: From Rational Choice Theory to the New Institutionalism
5. As Sociology meets History: Giddens’s Structuration Theory and Historical Sociology
6. The History of the Present: Foucault’s Archaeology and Genealogy
7. The Spread of Reason: Habermas’s Critical Theory and Beyond
8. A Brave New World?: Current Trends in Social Theory
9. Conclusion: Social Theory for the Twenty-First Century