Studies in Social and Political Theory

RLE Social Theory

Anthony Giddens

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Routledge
08 August 2014

Social theory

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory

The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' – i.e. from the middle years of the nineteenth century until the First World War – and have the aim of working out some of the implications of that encounter for the position and prospects of the social sciences today. The issues involved relate to the following series of problems: method and epistemology; social development and transformation; the origins of 'sociology' in nineteenth-century social theory; and the status of social science as critique. In each of these areas, Giddens develops views that challenge existing orthodoxies, and connects these ideas to a reconstruction of social theory in the contemporary era.

By: Anthony Giddens
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 725g
ISBN: 9781138786035
ISBN 10: 1138786039
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
Pages: 418
Publication Date: 08 August 2014
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Some Issues in the Social Sciences Today. 1. Positivism and Its Critics. Max Weber on Facts and Values 2. Functionalism: après la lutte. Notes on the Theory of Structuration 3. Habermas's Critique of Hermeneutics 4. Hermeneutics, Ethnomethodology and Problems of Interpretive Analysis. Max Weber on Interpretive Sociology 5. Marx, Weber and the Development of Capitalism. Marx and Weber: Problems of Class Structure 6. Four Myths in the History of Social Thought 7. Durkheim's Political Sociology 8. The 'Individual' in the Writings of Emile Durkheim. Durkheim on Social Facts 9. A Theory of Suicide. The Suicide Problem in French Sociology 10. 'Power' in the Writings of Talcott Parsons. Remarks on the Theory of Power

Anthony Giddens