Routledge handbook of social and cultural theory /

If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michel Foucault and Anthony giddens, then proper regard to the questino of culture means that they should also read Raymond williams, Stuart Hall and Slavoj Zizek. The Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory offers a concise, comprehe...

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Group Author: Elliott, Anthony, 1964
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: Abingdon, Oxon :
Publication Dates: 2014.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Routledge international handbooks.
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Summary: If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michel Foucault and Anthony giddens, then proper regard to the questino of culture means that they should also read Raymond williams, Stuart Hall and Slavoj Zizek. The Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory offers a concise, comprehensive overview of the convergences and divergences of social and cultural theory, and in so doing offers a novel agenda for social and cultural research in the twenty-first century.
Carrier Form: ix, 412 pages ; illustration : 26 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780415696098 (hardback) :
0415696097 (hardback)
Index Number: HM585
CLC: C91
Call Number: C91/R869-1
Contents: Part I: Contemporary Social Theory -- 1. The Trajectories of Social and Cultural Theory / Anthony Elliott -- 2. Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School / Jordan Mckenzie -- 3. Structuralism and Post-Structuralism / Sam Han -- 4. Structuration Theories: Giddens and Bordieu / Anthony Elliott -- 5. Feminist and Post-Feminist Social Theories / Ann Branaman -- 6. Zygmunt Bauman and Social Theory / Keith Tester -- 7. Ideology and Social and Cultural Theory / John Cash -- 8. Psychoanalytic Social Theory / Anthony Elliott -- 9. Social Theories of Risk / Patrick Brown -- 10. Networks / Thomas Birtchn