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- catalog abstract ""This innovative textbook presents a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of the central debates in contemporary social thought. It enables the reader with a basic grasp of sociology to develop an advanced understanding of the vast and complex body of sociological theory." "Malcolm Waters offers a different and illuminating framework for the study of social theory. By focusing on the core concepts and issues - rather than on schools of thought or individual theorists - he relates past and present theory to the key concerns of sociology today." "Modern Sociological Theory gives a lucid overview of the core concepts that sociological theory must address and attempt to reconcile agency, rationality, structure and system; and the main phenomena that sociological theory seeks to explain - culture, power, gender, differentiation and stratification." "It not only explains the major contributions to the analysis of each concept or phenomenon by both classical and contemporary theorists, but also links these ideas to current sociological issues, such as change and globalization, feminism and social theory and the return to cultural analysis." "Covering a wide range of material in an accessible and engaging way, this is an invaluable textbook for all students of sociology, as well as for those in cultural studies, women's studies, organization studies, urban studies and geography who are interested in social theory."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b5637791.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""This innovative textbook presents a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of the central debates in contemporary social thought. It enables the reader with a basic grasp of sociology to develop an advanced understanding of the vast and complex body of sociological theory." "Malcolm Waters offers a different and illuminating framework for the study of social theory. By focusing on the core concepts and issues - rather than on schools of thought or individual theorists - he relates past and present theory to the key concerns of sociology today." "Modern Sociological Theory gives a lucid overview of the core concepts that sociological theory must address and attempt to reconcile agency, rationality, structure and system; and the main phenomena that sociological theory seeks to explain - culture, power, gender, differentiation and stratification." "It not only explains the major contributions to the analysis of each concept or phenomenon by both classical and contemporary theorists, but also links these ideas to current sociological issues, such as change and globalization, feminism and social theory and the return to cultural analysis." "Covering a wide range of material in an accessible and engaging way, this is an invaluable textbook for all students of sociology, as well as for those in cultural studies, women's studies, organization studies, urban studies and geography who are interested in social theory."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Founding arguments: Durkheimian functionalism. Parsonsian structural-functionalism: systems within systems. Neofunctionalism: paradise regained. Habermas' communicationism: steering theory straight -- 6. Culture and ideology. Founding arguments. NeoMarxian critical theory. Contemporary constructionist theories of culture. The neoWeberian critique of ideology theory. Postmodernism: culture triumphant -- 7. Power and the state. Founding arguments. Critical structuralism: power from the possession of property. Functionalism and constructionism: power as politics. Utilitarianism: power as individual performance. Polymorphic power -- 8. Gender and feminism. Malestream theory. Foundations. Contemporary developments. Feminist critiques. Biological and sexual structuralist theory. Psychoanalytic structuralist theory. Critical and materialist structuralist theory. Constructionist theories. Poststructuralist theories -- 9. Differentiation and stratification. Founding arguments.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Modernization: the utopias of functionalism. Theories of the future of differentiation. Founding arguments. Critical structuralist theory: possession is all. Constructionist theory: market forces. Functionalist theory: class as status -- 10. Conclusion: the past and the future of sociological theory. Three diagnoses. The accomplishments of theory. Moving forward.".
- catalog extent "xii, 368 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Modern sociological theory.".
- catalog identifier "0803985312 (cased)".
- catalog identifier "0803985320 (pbk)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Modern sociological theory.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage,".
- catalog relation "Modern sociological theory.".
- catalog subject "302 20".
- catalog subject "HM24 .W283 1994".
- catalog subject "Sociology Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Founding arguments: Durkheimian functionalism. Parsonsian structural-functionalism: systems within systems. Neofunctionalism: paradise regained. Habermas' communicationism: steering theory straight -- 6. Culture and ideology. Founding arguments. NeoMarxian critical theory. Contemporary constructionist theories of culture. The neoWeberian critique of ideology theory. Postmodernism: culture triumphant -- 7. Power and the state. Founding arguments. Critical structuralism: power from the possession of property. Functionalism and constructionism: power as politics. Utilitarianism: power as individual performance. Polymorphic power -- 8. Gender and feminism. Malestream theory. Foundations. Contemporary developments. Feminist critiques. Biological and sexual structuralist theory. Psychoanalytic structuralist theory. Critical and materialist structuralist theory. Constructionist theories. Poststructuralist theories -- 9. Differentiation and stratification. Founding arguments.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Modernization: the utopias of functionalism. Theories of the future of differentiation. Founding arguments. Critical structuralist theory: possession is all. Constructionist theory: market forces. Functionalist theory: class as status -- 10. Conclusion: the past and the future of sociological theory. Three diagnoses. The accomplishments of theory. Moving forward.".
- catalog title "Modern sociological theory / Malcolm Waters.".
- catalog type "text".