| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical reference (pages 245-252) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I; 1 -- Economic Constraints: Marxism and the Mode of Production; 2 -- Moral Constraints: Functionalism; PART II; 3 -- The Emergent Qualities of Social Life: Weber and Elias; 4 -- Theorising Subjective Action; PART III; 5 -- Weber, Class and the Politics of Closure; 6 -- The Turn to Gramsci; 7 -- Critical Theory, Positivism and Critique; 8 -- Feminism(s); 9 -- The Politics of Otherness; 10 -- Foucault; 11 -- Politics in the 'Everyday'; PART IV; 12 -- Language Games and Linguistic Turns; 13 -- Hitting the 'Posts'; References; Index. |
| Summary |
This 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Harris, David, 1947- Teaching yourself social theory. London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2003 9780803976887 (DLC) 2002108289 (OCoLC)51985448 |
| ISBN |
9781849207140 (electronic book) |
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1849207143 (electronic book) |
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9781446221778 (ebook) |
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1446221776 (ebook) |
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9780803976870 |
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0803976879 (Trade Cloth) |
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1282262726 |
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9781282262720 |
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0803976887 (paperback) |
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