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Social theory for today : making sense of social worlds / Alex Law.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : SAGE, [2015]Description: 333 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781446209028 (paperback)
  • 1446209024 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 300.1 23
LOC classification:
  • HM585 LAW 2015
Contents:
Introduction : the narcissism of minor differences -- Social theory and crisis -- Positivist turn : Auguste Comte -- Marx's turn -- Nietzsche's turn : Max Weber and Georg Simmel -- Ideological turn : Antonio Gramsci and Georg Lukacs -- Reflexive turn : Otto Neurath and empirical sociology -- Modernist turn : Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer -- Critical turn : The Frankfurt School -- Negative turn : Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas -- Quotidian turn : Henri Lefebvre -- Corporeal turn : Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Pragmatic turn : social theory in the US -- Cultural turn : social theory in France and Britain -- Relational turn : Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu -- Conclusion
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books City Campus Library General Stacks City Campus Library Non-fiction HM 585 LAW 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available 030932
Books Books Mashava Campus Library General Stacks Mashava Campus Library Non-fiction HM 585 LAW 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.2 Available 028959
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-326) and index.

Introduction : the narcissism of minor differences -- Social theory and crisis -- Positivist turn : Auguste Comte -- Marx's turn -- Nietzsche's turn : Max Weber and Georg Simmel -- Ideological turn : Antonio Gramsci and Georg Lukacs -- Reflexive turn : Otto Neurath and empirical sociology -- Modernist turn : Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer -- Critical turn : The Frankfurt School -- Negative turn : Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas -- Quotidian turn : Henri Lefebvre -- Corporeal turn : Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Pragmatic turn : social theory in the US -- Cultural turn : social theory in France and Britain -- Relational turn : Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu -- Conclusion

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