Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 The Emergence of Social Theory
- 2 “What Is a Classic?”
- 3 Karl Marx
- 4 The Marxist Legacy
- 5 Émile Durkheim: Theorist of Solidarity
- 6 What’s in a Name?
- 7 Max Weber
- 8 Weberian Social Theory
- 9 Georg Simmel and the Metropolitization of Social Life
- 10 Pounding on Parsons: How Criticism Undermined the Reputation of Sociology’s Incurable Theorist
- 11 Symbolic Interactionism
- 12 Erving Goffman and Dramaturgical Sociology
- 13 Structuralism
- 14 Norbert Elias, Civilising Processes, and Figurational (or Process) Sociology
- 15 Phenomenology and Social Theory
- 16 Pierre Bourdieu: An Intellectual Legacy
- 17 Developing Ethnomethodology: Garfinkel on the Constitutive Interactional Practices in Social Systems of Interaction
- 18 Jürgen Habermas
- 19 Anthony Giddens, Structuration Theory, and Radical Politics
- Index
The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
Volume I: A Contested Canon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 The Emergence of Social Theory
- 2 “What Is a Classic?”
- 3 Karl Marx
- 4 The Marxist Legacy
- 5 Émile Durkheim: Theorist of Solidarity
- 6 What’s in a Name?
- 7 Max Weber
- 8 Weberian Social Theory
- 9 Georg Simmel and the Metropolitization of Social Life
- 10 Pounding on Parsons: How Criticism Undermined the Reputation of Sociology’s Incurable Theorist
- 11 Symbolic Interactionism
- 12 Erving Goffman and Dramaturgical Sociology
- 13 Structuralism
- 14 Norbert Elias, Civilising Processes, and Figurational (or Process) Sociology
- 15 Phenomenology and Social Theory
- 16 Pierre Bourdieu: An Intellectual Legacy
- 17 Developing Ethnomethodology: Garfinkel on the Constitutive Interactional Practices in Social Systems of Interaction
- 18 Jürgen Habermas
- 19 Anthony Giddens, Structuration Theory, and Radical Politics
- Index
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory , pp. iiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020