Anthony Giddens And Modern Social Theory

Author : Stjepan Mestrovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134866014

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Anthony Giddens by Stjepan Mestrovic Pdf

Anthony Giddens is arguably the world's leading sociologist. In this controversial contribution to the Giddens debate, Stjepan Mestrovic takes up and criticizes the major themes of his work - particularly the concept of 'high modernity' as opposed to 'postmodernity' and his attempted construction of a 'synthetic' tradition based on human agency and structure. Testing Giddens' theories against what is happening in the real world from genocide in Africa to near secession in Quebec, Mestrovic discerns in the construction of synthetic traditions not the promise of freedom held out by Giddens but rather the ominous potential for new forms of totalitarian control.

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1973-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107268043

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Capitalism and Modern Social Theory by Anthony Giddens Pdf

Giddens's analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber has become the classic text for any student seeking to understand the three thinkers who established the basic framework of contemporary sociology. The first three sections of the book, based on close textual examination of the original sources, contain separate treatments of each writer. The author demonstrates the internal coherence of their respective contributions to social theory. The concluding section discusses the principal ways in which Marx can be compared with the other two authors, and discusses misconceptions of some conventional views on the subject.

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745666648

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Social Theory and Modern Sociology by Anthony Giddens Pdf

In this book Anthony Giddens addresses a range of issues concerning current developments in social theory, relating them to the prospects for sociology in the closing decades of the twentieth century. Composed of closely integrated papers, all written over the past few years, the book includes seven essays not previously published, plus two have not appeared in English before. In assessing the likely future evolution of sociology in particular, and the social sciences in general, the author both draws upon ideas established in his more abstract theoretical writings and examines critically competing traditions of thought. Those looking for an accessible introduction to Gidden's writing will find in this book a set of clear expositions of his basic ideas. By situating these ideas in relation to the critical assessment of the views of others, however, the author provides new sources of insight into the distinctiveness of his own claims.

Author : Kenneth Tucker
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803975511

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Anthony Giddens and Modern Social Theory by Kenneth Tucker Pdf

Anthony Giddens is widely recognized as one of the most important sociologists of the post-war period. This is the first full-length work to examine Giddens' social theory. It guides the reader through Giddens' early attempt to overcome the duality of structure and agency. He saw this duality as a major failing of social theories of modernity. His attempt to resolve the problem can be regarded as the key to the development of his brandmark `structuration theory'. The book is the most complete and thorough assessment of Giddens' work currently available. It incorporates insights from many different perspectives into his theory of structuration, his work on the formation of cultural identities and the fate of the nation-state. This fa

Author : David Held,John B. Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052126197X

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Social Theory of Modern Societies by David Held,John B. Thompson Pdf

During the past decade, Anthony Giddens has published a series of substantial volumes that have defined a distinctive and original theoretical approach. The twin focal points of his research are the "theory of structuration" and the analysis of "modernity." Giddens' writing on these and related themes are widely recognized as among the most important contributions to theoretical debate in the social sciences. This is the first book to provide a systematic and critical assessment of Giddens' work. It includes eleven critical essays specially commissioned from contributors who are well known in their own fields. In a concluding essay, Giddens responds to the criticisms raised by these and other authors, and clarifies and elaborates on his current views.

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804715149

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Social Theory Today by Anthony Giddens Pdf

Social theory has undergone dramatic changes over the past fifteen years. The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive survey of those changes, and an authoritative statement on current trends of development in social thought. The contents of the book range in a systematic way across the major traditions of social theory prominent today. Among the topics covered are the relationships between modern social theory and the 'classics' of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the connections between social theory and mathematical social science; and the logical status of generalizations in the social sciences. Traditions of thought discussed include: behaviourism; symbolic interactionism; Parsonian theory; analytical theory; structuralism and post-structuralism; ethnomethodology; structuration theory; world systems theory; Marxism and critical theory.

Author : Anthony Giddens,Fred Reinhard Dallmayr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520049640

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Profiles and Critiques in Social Theory by Anthony Giddens,Fred Reinhard Dallmayr Pdf

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745666563

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Politics, Sociology and Social Theory by Anthony Giddens Pdf

Built upon a series of critical encounters with major figures in classical and present-day social and political thought, this volume offers not only a challenging critique of major traditions of social and political analysis, but unique insights into the ideas which Giddens has developed over the past two decades.

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1979-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520039750

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Central Problems in Social Theory by Anthony Giddens Pdf

"One of the most creative among the younger generation of critical social theorists, Giddens stands alone in his concern for the classical tradition on sociology; but he also makes brilliant use of the latest philosophical and theoretical work of several contemporary schools and disciplines. A very important book for all of social science."—Jeffrey C. Alexander

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745666488

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Modernity and Self-Identity by Anthony Giddens Pdf

This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed institutional reflexivity. In the current period, the globalising tendencies of modern institutions are accompanied by a transformation of day-to-day social life having profound implications for personal activities. The self becomes a 'reflexive project', sustained through a revisable narrative of self identity. The reflexive project of the self, the author seeks to show, is a form of control or mastery which parallels the overall orientation of modern institutions towards 'colonising the future'. Yet it also helps promote tendencies which place that orientation radically in question - and which provide the substance of a new political agenda for late modernity. In this book Giddens concerns himself with themes he has often been accused of unduly neglecting, including especially the psychology of self and self-identity. The volumes are a decisive step in the development of his thinking, and will be essential reading for students and professionals in the areas of social and political theory, sociology, human geography and social psychology.

Author : Kenneth H. Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Social sciences
ISBN : 1446279022

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Anthony Giddens and Modern Social Theory by Kenneth H. Tucker Pdf

Anthony Giddens is widely recognized as one of the most important sociologists of the post-war period. This is the first full-length work to examine Giddens' social theory. It guides the reader through Giddens' early attempt to overcome the duality of structure and agency. He saw this duality as a major failing of social theories of modernity. His attempt to resolve the problem can be regarded as the key to the development of his brandmark s̀tructuration theory'. The book is the most complete and thorough assessment of Giddens' work currently available. It incorporates insights from many diffe.

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745666440

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The Consequences of Modernity by Anthony Giddens Pdf

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which prior trends are radicalised rather than undermined. A post-modern social universe may eventually come into being, but this as yet lies 'on the other side' of the forms of social and cultural organization which currently dominate world history. In developing an account of the nature of modernity, Giddens concentrates upon analyzing the intersections between trust and risk, and security and danger, in the modern world. Both the trust mechanisms associated with modernity and the distinctive 'risk profile' it produces, he argues, are distinctively different from those characteristic of pre-modern social orders. This book build upon the author's previous theoretical writings, and will be of fundamental interest to anyone concerned with Gidden's overall project. However, the work covers issues which the author has not previously analyzed and extends the scope of his work into areas of pressing practical concern. This book will be essential reading for second year undergraduates and above in sociology, politics, philosophy, and cultural studies.

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745665283

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The Constitution of Society by Anthony Giddens Pdf

Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form. A particular feature is Giddens's concern to connect abstract problems of theory to an interpretation of the nature of empirical method in the social sciences. In presenting his own ideas, Giddens mounts a critical attack on some of the more orthodox sociological views. The Constitution of Society is an invaluable reference book for all those concerned with the basic issues in contemporary social theory.

Author : Anthony Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134169719

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Contemporary Social Theory by Anthony Elliott Pdf

This book is arguably the definitive undergraduate textbook on contemporary social theory. Written by one of the world’s most acclaimed social theorists, Anthony Elliott provides a dazzlingly accessible and comprehensive introduction to modern social theory from the Frankfurt School to globalization theories and beyond. In distilling the essentials of social theory, Elliott reviews the works of major theorists including Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu, Julia Kristeva, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek, Manuel Castells, Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Giorgio Agamben and Manuel De Landa. Every social theorist discussed is contextualized in a wider political and historical context, and from which their major contributions to social theory are critically assessed. This book is essential reading for students and professionals in the fields of social theory, sociology and cultural studies, as it is both an original enquiry and a consummate introduction to social theory.

Author : David Held,John Brookshire Thompson,John B. Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521278554

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Social Theory of Modern Societies by David Held,John Brookshire Thompson,John B. Thompson Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive appraisal of the work of Anthony Giddens, who is known worldwide as one of the leading figures in social theory and the social sciences. During the last decade Giddens has published a series of substantial volumes which have defined a distinctive and original theoretical approach. The twin focal points of his approach are the 'theory of structuration' and the analysis of 'modernity'. Giddens's writings on these and related themes are widely recognized as among the most important contributions to theoretical debate in the social sciences. Social Theory of Modern Societies is the first volume to provide a systematic and critical assessment of Giddens's contributions. The volume includes eleven critical essays - all of which were specially commissioned for this volume - by authors who are well known in their own fields: Zygmunt Bauman, Richard J. Bernstein, Derek Gregory, Nicky Gregson, David Held, Bob Jessop, Linda Murgatroyd, Peter Saunders, Martin Shaw, John B. Thompson and Erik Olin Wright. In a long concluding chapter, Anthony Giddens responds to the criticisms raised by these and other authors, clarifying and elaborating his current views. The result is a unique and engaging book which gives both a critical evaluation of Giddens's work and a guide to some of the theoretical issues which are at the forefront of the social sciences today. It will be of interest to students and academics in sociology, politics and geography, and to students in the social sciences and humanities generally.