This first truly multicultural anthology collects important, readable texts representative of the full range of social theory as it has developed from the nineteenth century to the present. It brings texts together in unexpected and exciting ways: those of Parsons and Dorothy Smith, Merton and Lacan, Wallerstein and Frantz Fanon, James Coleman and Molefi Asante. Extensive introductory essays by the editor situate the writings in their times, identifying the currents of social change that shaped fundamental questions of modern and postmodern life. This third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. This first truly multicultural anthology collects important, readable texts representative of the full range of social theory as it has developed from the nineteenth century to the present. Now that social theory is practiced in many disciplines, it is time to reflect on the variety of theories being read today and the earlier sources that are customarily neglected. If today we read Donna Haraway, Henry Louis Gates, and Michel Foucault, we should also read and understand Charlotte Perkins Gilman and W.E.B. Du Bois, alongside Weber, Simmel, William James, and others of their contemporaries from the end of the nineteenth century. This book, therefore, sets a wider gauge for the understanding of the history of social thought than could have been possible before. It brings texts together in unexpected and exciting ways: those of Parsons and Dorothy Smith, Merton and Lacan, Wallerstein and Frantz Fanon, James Coleman and Molefi Asante. Extensive introductory essays by the editor situate the writings in their times, identifying the currents of social change that shaped fundamental questions of modern and postmodern life. This third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated.
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Collecting the full range of social theory developed from the 19th century to the present, this anthology brings together texts such as those of Parsons and Dorothy Smith, Merton and Lacan and James Coleman and Molefi Asante.
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Social Theory: Its Uses and Pleasures Modernity's Classical Age, 1848-1919Estranged Labour; Camera Obscura (Karl Marx) Class Struggle (K. Marx and Friedrich Engels) The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte; On Imperialism in India; The Values of Commodities; The Fetishism of Commodities; Labour-Power and Capital (K. Marx) The Patriarchal Family (F. Engels) Anomie and the Modern Division of Labor; Sociology and Social Facts; Suicide and Modernity (Emile Durkheim) Primitive Classifications and Social Knowledge (E. Durkheim and Marcel Mauss) The Cultural Logic of Collective Representations (E. Durkheim) The Spirit of Capitalism and the Iron Cage; The Bureaucratic Machine; What Is Politics?; The Types of Legitimate Domination; Class, Status, Party (Max Weber) The Psychical Apparatus and the Theory of Instincts; Dream-Work and Interpretation; Oedipus, the Child; Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through; The Return of the Repressed in Social Life; Civilization and the Individual (Sigmund Freud) Arbitrary Social Values and the Linguistic Sign (Ferdinand de Saussure) The Self and Its Selves (William James) Double-Consciousness and the Veil; The Spirit of Modern Europe (W.E.B. Du Bois) The Yellow Wallpaper; Women and Economics (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) The Colored Woman's Office (Anna Julia Cooper) The Stranger (Georg Simmel) The Looking-Glass Self (Charles Horton Cooley) Social Theories And World Conflict, 1919-1945The Psychology of Modern Society; The New Liberalism (John Maynard Keynes) The Irrational Chasm Between Subject and Object (Georg Lukcs) Notes on Science and the Crisis (Max Horkheimer) The Unit Act of Action Systems (Talcott Parsons) What Is to Be Done? (V. I. Lenin) The Sociology of Knowledge and Ideology (Karl Mannheim) Psychoanalysis and Sociology (Erich Fromm) The Self, the I, and the Me (George Herbert Mead) Social Structure and Anomie (Robert K. Merton) Moral Man and Immoral Society (Reinhold Niebuhr) The Negro Problem as a Moral Issue (Gunnar Myrdal) Disorganization of the Polish Immigrant (William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki) Personality
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9780813342160
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3. utgave
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Westview Press Inc
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229 mm
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152 mm
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U, P, 05, 06
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