| Description |
483 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : themes and theories in contemporary sociological thought -- Ch. 1. [Extracts from] The social system / Talcot Parsons -- Ch. 2. Introduction to Social theory and social structure / Robert K. Merton -- Ch. 3. Class and power : the major themes / John Porter -- Ch. 4. The intellectuals / Antonio Gramsci -- Ch. 5. The rise and future demise of the world capitalist system : concepts for comparative analysis / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Ch. 6. The impoverishment of state theory / Leo Panitch -- Ch. 7. Society as symbolic interaction / Herbert Blumer -- Ch. 8. Introduction to The presentation of self in everyday life / Erving Goffman -- Ch. 9. Becoming a marihuana user / Howard Becker -- Ch. 10. Symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodology : a proposed synthesis / Norman K. Denzin -- Ch. 11. The metropolis and mental life / Georg Simmel -- Ch. 12. The new forms of control / Herbert Marcuse -- Ch. 13. Modernity - an incomplete project / Jurgen Habermas -- Ch. 14. The dynamics of the fields / Pierre Bourdieu -- Ch. 15. Moral capital / Mariana Valverde -- Ch. 16. The social relation of the sexes : methodological implications of women's history / Joan Kelly-Gadol -- Ch. 17. Feminism and Marxism - a place to begin, a way to go / Dorothy Smith -- Ch. 18. The significance of feminism / Bell Hooks -- Ch. 19. Postmodernity : the history of an idea / David Lyon -- Ch. 20. The end of sociological theory : the postmodern hope / Steven Seidman -- Ch. 21. Call yourself a sociologist - and you've never even been arrested?! / Marilyn Porter -- Ch. 22. Forward : on being light and liquid / Zygmunt Bauman -- Ch. 23. [Extracts from] The spirit of terrorism and Requiem for the Twin Towers / Jean Baudrillard -- Ch. 24. Reforming Foucault : a critique of the social control thesis / Dany Lacombe -- Ch. 25. The emergence of life politics / Anthony Giddens -- Ch. 26. Introduction : the cosmopolitan manifesto / Ulrich Beck -- Ch. 27. Running out of control : understanding globalization / R. Alan Hedley -- Ch. 28. [Extracts from] Fences and windows : dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate / Naomi Klein -- Ch. 29. Cosmopolitanism and the future of democracy : politics, culture, and the self / Nick Stevenson -- Ch. 30. Latent and manifest Orientalism / Edward Said -- Ch. 31. Cultural identity and diaspora / Stuart Hall -- Ch. 32. Citizenship in an era of globalization / Will Kymlicka -- Ch. 33. The politics of recognition / Charles Taylor |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Sociology -- Textbooks.
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Sociology -- Canada -- Textbooks.
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Author |
Hier, Sean P. (Sean Patrick), 1971-
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| ISBN |
1551302888 |
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