Sociological Theory Routledge Revivals

Author : George Ritzer
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506337724
Total Pages : 751 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociological Theory written by George Ritzer and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Now with SAGE Publishing, and co-authored by one of the foremost authorities on sociological theory, the Tenth Edition of Sociological Theory by George Ritzer and Jeffrey Stepnisky gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought, from sociology′s origins through the early 21st century. Key theories are integrated with biographical sketches of theorists, and are placed in their historical and intellectual context. This text helps students better understand the original works of classical and contemporary theorists, and enables them to compare and contrast the latest substantive concepts.

Author : Russell Keat
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136839232
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals) written by Russell Keat and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life. This book combines an evaluation of different conceptions of the nature of science with an examination of important sociological theorists and frameworks. This second edition of the work was originally published in 1982.

Author : David Frisby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415831215
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociological Impressionism (Routledge Revivals) written by David Frisby and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sociological Impressionism was first published in 1981, it was the first comprehensive study on Simmel's social theory to appear in English since 1925. A pioneering work, it did much to bring about the rediscovery of Georg Simmel as one of the key sociologists of the twentieth century. This is a reissue of the second edition, published in 1992, which includes a new afterword confronting critical responses to the first edition.

Author : Tim Dant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317829492
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Ideology & Discourse written by Tim Dant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This student textbook, originally published in 1991, tackles the traditional problems of the sociology of knowledge from a new perspective. Drawing on recent developments in social theory, Tim Dant explores crucial questions such as the roles of power and knowledge, the status of rational knowledge, and the empirical analysis of knowledge. He argues that, from a sociological perspective, knowledge, ideology and discourse are different aspects of the same phenomenon, and reasserts the central thesis of the sociology - that knowledge is socially determined.

Author : Anthony D. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136971076
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Social Change (Routledge Revivals) written by Anthony D. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Smith's important work on the concept of social change, first published in 1973, puts forward the paradigm of historical change as an alternative to the functionalist theory of evolutionary change. He shows that, in attempting to provide a theory of social change, functionalism reveals itself as a species of 'frozen' evolutionism. Functionalism, he argues, is unable to cope with the mechanisms of historical transitions or account for novelty and emergence; it confuses classification of variations with explanation of processes; and its endogenous view of change prevents it from coming to grips with the real events and transformations of the historical record. In his assessment of functionalism, Dr Smith traces its explanatory failures in its accounts of the developments of civilisation, modernisation and revolution. He concludes that the study of 'evolution' is largely irrelevant to the investigation of social change. He proposes instead an exogenous paradigm of social change, which places the study of contingent historical events at its centre.

Author : Chris Rojek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317821211
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and Leisure Theory (Routledge Revivals) written by Chris Rojek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985, this title explores theories of leisure in a capitalist society. Basing his argument on a refutation of the conventional association of leisure with freedom and free time, Chris Rojek examines the four main structural characteristics of modern leisure practice: privatisation, individuation, commercialisation and pacification. The writings of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Freud are used to locate the question of leisure in more mainstream social theory. This interesting reissue will be of particular value to students of sociology and leisure studies, and those with an interest in the relationship between leisure and power.

Author : David Frisby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780415072755
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simmel and Since written by David Frisby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom B. Bottomore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136923152
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociology as Social Criticism (Routledge Revivals) written by Tom B. Bottomore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1975, this collection of essays embodies a conception of sociological thought as a critical analysis of social theories and doctrines, of social institutions and political regimes, of recent social movements. They deal, in particular, with some conservative versions of sociology and with attempts to develop more radical theories; they extend the author's previous writings on classes, elites and politics; and they analyse some of the problems of socialism in the late twentieth century. There is a close unity of theme througout the book in its critical attempt to formulate new intellectual bases for future radical and egalitarian politics. It is written with that quiet wisdom and impressive command of sources which readers have come to associate with Professor Bottomore's work.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136955542
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hermeneutics and Social Science (Routledge Revivals) written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978, this important work, by one of the leading European social theorists, is arguably the best introduction to the hermeneutic tradition as a whole. It is designed to help students of sociology and philosophy place the problems of "understanding social science" in their historical and philosophical context. It does so by presenting the major current in sociological thought as responses to the challenge of hermeneutics. The idea that true knowledge of social life can be attained only if human conduct is seen as meaningful action whose meaning is accordingly grasped has been presented as a discovery of recent sociology. In fact its history is long and its connections plentiful, reaching beyond the boundaries of sociology itself. Yet it is in sociology that the hermeneutic tradition has attracted most interest but most misinterpretation. The debate is in full swing and there is no attempt to offer "correct" solutions - the emphasis instead is upon revealing the strengths and weaknesses of each of the main approaches. However it is Bauman's view that the theory of understanding may achieve valid results only if it treats the problem of understanding as an aspect of the ongoing process of social life.

Author : John Urry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136721010
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reference Groups and the Theory of Revolution (Routledge Revivals) written by John Urry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1973, this is a reissue of John Urry's important and influential study of the theory of revolution. Part 1 offers a detailed discussion of the concept of the reference group, tracing its development from the symbolic interactionist tradition and then showing how it came to be used in ways which emasculated some of the suppositions of that tradition. Part 2 sets out a theory of revolutionary dissent, in which Dr Urry emphasizes the interconnection between analyses on the level of the social structure and the social actor. The final section demonstrates the value of this theory by using it to account for the varying patterns of action and revolutionary thought and action in the Dutch East Indies in the first half of this century.