Social theory in the twentieth century and beyond / Patrick Baert and Filipe Carreira de Silva.

Author: Baert, Partick, 1961-

Edition Statement:2nd ed.

Imprint:Cambridge ; Malden, MA: Polity c2010.

Descriptionix, 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Previous ed.: 1998.

Note:One hundred years of French social theory : from structuralism to pragmatism -- The biological metaphor : functionalism and neo-functionalism -- The enigma of everyday life : symbolic interactionism, the dramaturgical approach and ethnomethodology -- The invasion of economic man : from rational choice theory to the new institutionalism -- Sociology meets history : Giddens's theory of modernity -- The history and the present : Foucault's archaeology and genealogy -- The spread of reason : Habermas's critical theory and beyond -- A brave new world? : the empirical turn in social theory -- Conclusion : social theory for the twenty-first century.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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