Social theory for today : making sense of social worlds / Alex Law.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Law, Alex (Author)
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : SAGE, [2015]
Subjects:
Sociology > Philosophy.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Physical Description:333 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : the narcissism of minor differences
  • Social theory and crisis
  • Positivist turn : Auguste Comte
  • Marx's turn
  • Nietzsche's turn : Max Weber and Georg Simmel
  • Ideological turn : Antonio Gramsci and Georg Lukacs
  • Reflexive turn : Otto Neurath and empirical sociology
  • Modernist turn : Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer
  • Critical turn : The Frankfurt School
  • Negative turn : Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas
  • Quotidian turn : Henri Lefebvre
  • Corporeal turn : Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Pragmatic turn : social theory in the US
  • Cultural turn : social theory in France and Britain
  • Relational turn : Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu
  • Conclusion.