Ransome, Paul <br/><br/>
Social theory for beginners/ 
Paul Ransome 
 - Bristol:  Policy Press,  c2010. 
 - xvi, 480 p.   ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-472) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: who is this book for and how do I use it? -- What is social theory? -- Where did social theory come from? -- Emile Durkheim and the coming of industrial society -- Karl Marx, capitalism and revolution -- Max Weber, rational capitalism and social action -- Talcott Parsons, functionalism and the social system -- Social interactionism and the real lives of social actors -- Western Marxism, Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt School -- Language, structure, meaning -- Discourse and power: Post-structuralist social theory -- Feminist social theory -- Reviving theories of modernity: Habermas, Giddens and Bourdieu -- Theories of modernity and post-modernity -- Reflexive modernisation: the global dimension and cultural theory -- The boundary problem in contemporary social theory. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781847426758 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social sciences--Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>300.1  / PAU/S