Law, Alex,

Social theory for today : making sense of social worlds / Alex Law. - 333 pages ; 24 cm

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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Sociology--Philosophy.
Social sciences--Philosophy.
Social sciences--Philosophy.
Sociology--Philosophy.

HM585 / LAW 2015

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