An examination of the work of key figures and seminal institutions in the classical tradition and the agenda they provide for contemporary sociology. Bryan Turner, himself an eminent sociologist, defends classical perspectives as a living tradition for understanding social life. The first part of the book examines the theories of: Karl Marx; Max ......
Traditionally social science has treated culture as a peripheral issue. However, culture has moved to the core of the debate. It examines the impact of this transformation or "cultural turn" on the major social science disciplines. The authors draw on inter-disciplinary perspectives to pinpoint the weaknesses involved in overstating the cultural ......
Understanding Contemporary Society: Theories of the Present is a comprehensive textbook to guide students through the complexities of social theory today. Over 30 chapters, written by an international team of contributors, demonstrate clearly the practical applications of social theory in making sense of the modern world. Students are both ......
An account of the competing schools of thought in traditional and contemporary international theory, offering new ways of thinking about international political morality. It explains the role and place of normative theory in international politics, critically examines mainstream approaches in international relations and applied ethics, and ......
In the social sciences, the term d is used to divide the observed effect by the standard deviation of the dependent variable. This book lays out the computational methods for d with a variety of designs, including ANOVA and ANCOVA.'
A theory of embodiment, which interprets modern individuals as complex bodies of thought, as embodied symbolic and material beings. Steering between constructionist and realist theories of the social actor, the work assesses Foucaultian, Eliasian, and feminist approaches to the body and provides a critique of post-Cartesian dualisms such as mind and body; thought and emotion; rationality and irrationality; and the mental and the material.
Traditionally social science has treated culture as a peripheral issue. However, culture has moved to the core of the debate. It examines the impact of this transformation or "cultural turn" on the major social science disciplines. The authors draw on inter-disciplinary perspectives to pinpoint the weaknesses involved in overstating the cultural ......
A critical inquiry into the relations of space, time and technology. Paul Virilio shows how technology has made inertia the defining condition of modernity. He argues that the real time of "action at a distance" through telecommunication has replaced the real space of immediate action. Everything now happens without the need to go anywhere. This ......
In a wide-ranging historical introduction to social theory, Alex Callinicos explores the controversies over modernity and examines the connections between social theory and modern philosophy, political economy and evolutionary biology since the Enlightenment.
