Name: Teaching Yourself Social Theory von David E Harris
SKU: 9780803976887
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Teaching Yourself Social Theory Zusammenfassung

Teaching Yourself Social Theory David E Harris

`Social theory is a very difficult subject to teach and it is one that students generally find hard to get to grips with. Teaching Yourself Social Theory offers a highly original and comprehensive resource that will be welcomed by students and teachers alike' - Barry Smart, University of Portsmouth

`I have no hesitation in recommending Harris' text to students and teachers of social theory' - Sociology

This refreshing and accessible text demonstrates how social theory can be made into an intelligible discourse that touches upon key aspects of everyday life. The abstraction and formalism of much contemporary social theory is criticized as unnecessarily `scholastic' for the beginner. The author maintains that the main problems in studying the subject are not intrinsic to social theory, but derive from how the subject is taught as a university discipline. This lively book uses non-specialist terms to introduce more complex themes, and incorporates a Website with questions and reading guides to some of the classic works.

Teaching Yourself Social Theory Bewertungen

`Social theory is a very difficult subject to teach and it is one that students generally find hard to get to grips with. Teach Yourself Social Theory offers a highly original and comprehensive resource that will be welcomed by students and teachers alike. In an exceptionally wide-ranging text that discusses the classical and contemporary contributions to social theory that students need to know about Harris manages to address the complex issues intrinsic to the field with admirable clarity. From the opening chapters on Marxism and Functionalism to the later chapters on Feminism, Otherness, Foucault, and Postmodernism Teach Yourself Social Theory offers a thoughtful account of the distinctive features of the various perspectives employed in contemporary social analysis to make sense of social life.

Teach Yourself Social Theory offers students a well-organized cognitive map of the landscape of social theory and where and when appropriate more specific online reading guides that will allow students to deepen their understanding of particular perspectives and approaches. Harris has produced a very effective social theory text that will be widely appreciated by both students and teachers' - Barry Smart, Professor of Sociology, University of Portsmouth

Über David E Harris

David Harris is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, College of St Mark & St John, Plymouth

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction PART ONE Economic Constraints Marxism and the Mode of Production Moral Constraints Functionalism PART TWO The Emergent Qualities of Social Life Weber and Elias Theorizing Subjective Action PART THREE Weber, Class and the Politics of Closure The Turn to Gramsci Critical Theory, Positivism and Critique Feminism(s) The Politics of Otherness Foucault Politics in the `Everyday' PART FOUR Language Games and Linguistic Turns Hitting the `Posts'

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR005308420

ISBN 13

9780803976887

ISBN 10

0803976887

Titel

Teaching Yourself Social Theory David E Harris

Autor

David E Harris

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

SAGE Publications Ltd

Datum

2002-12-13

Anzahl der Seiten

256

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N/A

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