TY - BOOK AU - Law, Alex. TI - Social theory for today: making sense of social worlds SN - 9781446209028 U1 - 301.01 PY - 2015/// CY - New Delhi PB - Sage KW - Social sciences--Philosophy KW - Sociology--Philosophy N1 - 1 Introduction : the narcissism of minor differences 2 Social theory and crisis 3 Positivist turn : Auguste Comte 4 Marx's turn 5 Nietzsche's turn : Max Weber and Georg Simmel 6 Ideological turn : Antonio Gramsci and Georg Lukacs 7 Reflexive turn : Otto Neurath and empirical sociology 8 Modernist turn : Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer 9 Critical turn : The Frankfurt School 9 Negative turn : Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas 10 Quotidian turn : Henri Lefebvre 11 Corporeal turn : Maurice Merleau-Ponty 12 Pragmatic turn : social theory in the US 13 Cultural turn : social theory in France and Britain 14 Relational turn : Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu Conclusion ER -