Politics, Sociology, and Social Theory: Encounters with Classical and Contempora

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This work consists of a series of critical engagements with major figures in classical and present-day social and political thought. It offers a challenging critique of major traditions of social and political analysis amd unique insights into the ideas that Anthony Giddens has developed.

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This book consists of a series of critical engagements with major figures in classical and present-day social and political thought. It offers not only a challenging critique of major traditions of social and political analysis but also unique insights into the ideas that Anthony Giddens has developed over the past two decades. In selecting the ten essays for this volume, Giddens has attempted to strike a balance between classical and contemporary theorists. Two essays discuss politics and sociology in the thought of Weber, notably his views on the development of capitalism. Two essays analyse Durkheim's political sociology and his interpretation of individualism and solidarity in modern societies. An essay on Comte and the origins of positivism provides a useful link between the nineteenth century and current preoccupations. The last four essays deal with such figures as Parsons (the concept of power), Marcuse (One-Dimensional Man), Garfinkel (ethnomethodology and hermeneutics), Habermas (labor and interaction), and Foucault (the new French conservatism), with a backward glance at Nietzsche and Marx.In sum, the volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to some of the main debates in the social sciences and politics today. A number of themes associated with Giddens's thought run through each of the essays: the methodological reconstruction of social investigation, the reinterpretation of modernity, and the reformulation of a critical theory of politics.

Details ISBN0804726221 Author Anthony Giddens Pages 312 Publisher Stanford University Press Year 1995 ISBN-10 0804726221 ISBN-13 9780804726221 Format Hardcover Publication Date 1995-01-01 Imprint Stanford University Press Subtitle Encounters with Classical and Contemporary Social Thought Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States DEWEY 301.01 Illustrations bibliography, index Birth 1950 Short Title Politics, Sociology, and Social Theory Language English Media Book DOI 10.1604/9780804726221 AU Release Date 1995-01-01 NZ Release Date 1995-01-01 US Release Date 1995-01-01 UK Release Date 1995-01-01 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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