Social Theory and Sociology: The Classics and Beyond

By Stephen P. Turner

In this volume, leading practitioners in the field think reflexively about the present state of social theory and its historical analogues.Ranging across a wide terrain from the classic figures, such as Marx, to the new theoretical approaches deriving from science and technology studies, this volume represents a multi-voiced, radically diverse consideration of the question: what is "theory" today?This book is essential reading for anyone interested in social theory.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631191925
• ISBN13: 9780631191926
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Blackwell Pub
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"