TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joas, Hans,
AU  - Knöbl, Wolfgang,;Skinner, Alex.
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ED  - 
ED  - 
ED  - 
TI  - : twenty introductory lectures 
SN  - 9780521870634 (hardback : alk. paper);0521870631 (hardback : alk. paper);9780521690881;0521690889
SN  - 2
PY  - 2009///46
CY  - Cambridge, UK ;;New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - 
KW  - 2
KW  - 0
KW  - 6
KW  - 20
KW  - Philosophy;History;Philosophy;History
KW  - Social sciences;Sociology
KW  - 20th century.;20th century.20
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; What is theory? -- The classical attempt at synthesis: Talcott Parsons -- Parsons on the road to normativist functionalism -- Parsons and the elaboration of normativist functionalism -- Neo-utilitarianism -- Interpretive approaches (1): symbolic interactionism -- Interpretive approaches (2): ethnomethodology -- Conflict sociology and conflict theory -- Habermas and critical theory -- Habermas' 'theory of communicative action' -- Niklas Luhmann's radicalization of functionalism -- Anthony Giddens' theory of structuration and the new British sociology of power -- The renewal of Parsonianism and modernization theory -- Structuralism and poststructuralism -- Between structuralism and theory of practice: the cultural sociology of Pierre Bourdieu -- French anti-structuralists (Cornelius Castoriadis, Alain Touraine and Paul Ricoeur) -- Feminist social theories -- A crisis of modernity? New diagnoses (Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Robert Bellah, and the debate between liberals and communitarians) -- Neopragmatism -- How things stand; 5
ER  -