000			01154nam a22001457a 4500
020			_a9781847426741 (pbk.)
050	0	0	_aMED H61 _b.R2193 2010
100	1		_aRansome, Paul.
245	1	0	_aSocial theory for beginners /
260			_aBristol : _bPolicy Press, _cc2010.
300			_axvi, 480 p. : _bill. ;
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
650		0	_aSocial sciences
942			_cBK
999			_c13929 _d13929