Social Theory
Twenty Introductory Lectures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19933751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hans Joas (University of Erfurt), Wolfgang Knöbl (0000-0002-5046-7288, University of Göttingen) |
| Translators | Alex Skinner |
| Year | 2009 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Social Theory (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781139878432 |
| OpenAlex | W4244141151 |
| Open Library | OL34503699M |
| ISBN | 9781139878432 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 112 |
Social theory is the theoretical core of the social sciences, clearly distinguishable from political theory and cultural analysis. This book offers a unique overview of the development of social theory from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the present day. Spanning the literature in English, French and German, it provides an excellent background to the most important social theorists and theories in contemporary sociological thought, with crisp summaries of the main books, arguments and controversies. It also deals with newly emerging schools from rational choice to symbolic interactionism, with new ambitious approaches (Habermas, Luhmann, Giddens, Bourdieu), structuralism and antistructuralism, critical revisions of modernization theory, feminism and neopragmatism. Written by two of the world's leading sociologists and based on their extensive academic teaching, this unrivalled work is ideal both for students in the social sciences and humanities and for anyone interested in contemporary theoretical debates
Epistemology · German · Ideal (ethics) · Ideology · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · Structuralism (philosophy of science) · Symbolic interactionism · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Philosophy
Drifting as method
Sociology of Social Practices
Cultural Conflict
Hegemony and Sociology
Ups and Downs of Sociology in Germany
Accomplishing the Public Encounter
Boots on the Ground
Whose Revisionism, Which International Order? Social Structure and Its Discontents
Get your Act(ors) Together! Theorizing Agency in Global Governance
Changing Power of Journalism
Rutine i emocije nastavnika kao strukturacijski element obrazovnog sustava tijekom nastave na daljinu
How do English-Speaking Users Discuss the Wuhan Lockdown
Human action and social structures. A Reformed theological critique of conflict theory and micro-interactionist theory
Sociology and moral character
Situated co-operative creativity
A Sociological Approach to the Extremist Radicalization in Islam
Resources in Relational Packages
Power and theory
The Constitutive Practices of Public Smartphone Use
Knowing through feeling
Utilitarianism as an Exercise of Suspicion
What Does It Mean to Measure a Smile? Assigning numerical values to emotions
Theorizing theory
A strong commitment
From ‘Corruption’ to ‘Democracy’
How to criticize? On Honneth’s method
Social theory and the everyday
The autonomy of the political and the challenge of social sciences
The Status of the Classics
Lost in translation
À contre-courant
S.N. Eisenstadt and African modernities
Education and transition from cohabitation to marriage in Lithuania
Geography and ethics III
Geography and ethics
Moving landscapes of Nordic basic education
Social change, competition and inequality
The Sola Model
Challenging the sociological canon
The Rhetoric of the Canon
On the Other Side of Interests
World Ordering
Family Power
Making sense of the sensemaking perspective
The 'Social Life of Methods
Making the Discovery
The Play of International Practice
Social conflict
Bourdieu’s Relational View of Interactions
Robert Bellah
Gjør empirisme sosiologien mer slagkraftig? Et svar til Marte Mangset
Individuell frihet og kollektiv selvbegrensning
Un intento de explicación teórica de la radicalización violenta islamista en España
Making Sense of Material Culture Transformation
Producing multiple ‘others’
Erving Goffman
Being and Knowledge
The Landscape of Meaning, a Metaphor in Process
The challenges and prospects of access to higher education at Unisa
The paradox of the education race
Logical fallacies in democratic theory or how dialectical logic may help
From Garfinkel’s ‘Experiments in Miniature’ to the Ethnomethodological Analysis of Interaction
Talcott Parsons’s sociology of education
A model-based approach to social ontology
Integrasjon av helsetjenester
Selvreferanse og refleksjon – Forholdet mellom teori og empiri i forskningsprosessen
Knowledge and Salvation for a Troubled World
Neither individualism nor anti‐individualism
Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis
Schutz and Becker on making music together
Producing Parsons' reputation
Understanding democratic conflicts
Lucidity and Its Limits
Theorizing democratic conflicts beyond agonism
Goffman and Empirical Research
Distributed Perception
A Novel Measure of Moral Boundaries
Rethinking Social Roles
The Moodiness of Action
The Different Roles of Parents and Friends
Parenting Support and its Different Functions - Parents' Experiences. A Case Study from Norway
Between openness and closure
Erving Goffman's presidential address on 'The interaction order
Goffman, Chicago sociology, and the classical canon
A single societal community with full citizenship for all
An appraisal of Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt's global historical sociology
Towards a paradigmatic enhancement of sociology
Habermas and the public sphere
Social roles and alienation
History of sociology and the quest for intellectual autonomy in the Global South
Looking laterally
Social theory anew
Reconceptualizing Agency within the Life Course
Familiarity as a tool of populism
Evidence and interest in social theory
The Neo-Marxist Legacy in American Sociology
On Wolfgang Schluchter's Interpretation of Weber
The Model social structure of an armed group
The disorganized family
How you keep going
| Unique citing works | 112 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 111 |