Authors: Steven Seidman
ISBN-13: 9781405170017, ISBN-10: 1405170018
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: April 2008
Edition: 4th Edition
Steven Seidman is Professor of Sociology at State University of New York at Albany. He is a world renowned social theorist working in the areas of social theory, culture, sexuality, comparative sociology, theory of democracy, nationalism and globalization. He is the author and editor of several books including Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America (1992), The Postmodern Turn : New Perspectives on Social Theory (editor, 1995), Queer Theory/Sociology (Blackwell, 1996), The New Social Theory Reader: Contemporary Debates (edited with Jeffrey C. Alexander, 2001), and Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life (2002).
Contested Knowledge has established itself as a leading text that brings social theory into the present day by providing the most up to date perspectives on social theory by one of the most important thinkers of our time, Steven Seidman.
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. I | The Rise of the Classical Tradition | 7 |
1 | The Idea of a Science of Society: The Enlightenment and Auguste Comte | 11 |
2 | The Revolutionary Theory of Karl Marx | 22 |
3 | The Promise of Sociology: Emile Durkheim | 36 |
4 | The Ironic Social Theory of Max Weber | 49 |
Pt. II | Rethinking the Classical Tradition: American Sociology | 65 |
5 | The Grand Theory of Talcott Parsons and Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann | 70 |
6 | The Scientific Theory of Randall Collins and Peter Blau | 86 |
7 | The Moral Sociology of C. Wright Mills and Robert Bellah | 97 |
Pt. III | Rethinking the Classical Tradition: European Theory | 117 |
8 | The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas | 121 |
9 | Stuart Hall and British Cultural Studies | 134 |
10 | The Critical Sociology of Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu | 142 |
Pt. IV | Revisions and Revolts: The Postmodern Turn | 157 |
11 | The Postmodern World of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Jean Baudrillard | 161 |
12 | Michel Foucault's Disciplinary Society | 178 |
13 | Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology of Postmodernity | 192 |
Pt. V | Revisions and Revolts: Identity Politics and Theory | 205 |
14 | Feminist Theory | 209 |
15 | Critical Race Theory | 231 |
16 | Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Theory | 245 |
17 | Colonialism and Empire | 261 |
Afterword | 274 | |
Epilogue: Social Theory Today | 277 | |
Index | 283 |