Max Weber's 'Science as a Vocation'

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• Max Weber's lecture 'Science as a Vocation' is a classic of social thought, in which central questions are posed about the nature of social and politi... Lees meer

Marcuse and Freedom (RLE Social Theory)

Peter Lind

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• This comprehensive study of Marcuse's thought concentrates on his theory of freedom, arguing that it is this which supplies the key to all his writing... Lees meer

The Rational and the Social (Rle Social Theory)

James Robert Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• To paraphrase Marx, sociologists have only interpreted science; the point is to improve it. The Rational and the Social attempts both. It begins by sk... Lees meer

Ideological Representation and Power in Social Relations (Rle Social Theory)

Mike Gane

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• This collection reflects the French influence on literary and representational theory which has been predominant in recent years. It contains stimulat... Lees meer

The Study of Society (RLE Social Theory)

Kathleen Joan Heasman

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• In this book, Dr Heasman begins by stating some central questions and answers concerning sociology and how we are to set about studying society. It go... Lees meer

Levi-Strauss (RLE Social Theory)

C R Badcock

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• What is the significance of Structuralism for social science? How original is Lévi-Strauss' contribution to social theory? Is he Marxist? Though Struc... Lees meer

Social Theory and Political Practice (Rle Social Theory)

Brian Fay

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• This book examines the question of how our knowledge of social life affects, and ought to affect, our way of living it. In so doing, it critically dis... Lees meer

R.D. Laing: His Work and Its Relevance for Sociology (Rle Social Theory)

Martin Howarth-Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• This study, by a sociologist, provides the most rigorous and comprehensive review to appear so far of R. D. Laing's work and theoretical development. ... Lees meer

Sovereign Individuals of Capitalism (RLE Social Theory)

Bryan S Turner, Nicholas Abercrombie, Stephen Hill

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• In this sequel to their acclaimed The Dominant Ideology Thesis , the authors develop their analysis of the social and cultural underpinnings of modern... Lees meer

Meanings and Situations (RLE Social Theory)

Arthur Brittan

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• Meanings and Situations is an account of the 'interactionist' position. It is a committed account in the sense that it sees the central concerns of so... Lees meer

Knowledge and Politics

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• Karl Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia has been a profoundly provocative book. The debate about politics and social knowledge that was spawned by its ori... Lees meer

Choice, Rationality and Social Theory (Rle Social Theory)

Barry Hindess

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• Choice, Rationality and Social Theory is a powerful rebuttal of the remarkably influential theories underlying 'rational choice analysis'. Rational ch... Lees meer

Theories of Industrial Society (RLE Social Theory)

Richard Badham

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• The concept of industrial society plays a dominant role in the social sciences. The 'Great Divide' between pre-industrial and industrial societies is ... Lees meer

Science and the Sociology of Knowledge (Rle Social Theory)

Michael Mulkay

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• How far is scientific knowledge a product of social life? In addressing this question, the major contributors to the sociology of knowledge have agree... Lees meer

Discovering Sociology

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• Professor John Rex was one of Britain's most eminent sociologists, and a teacher of a whole generation of sociology students. In this book he presents... Lees meer

Matters of Fact (Rle Social Theory)

Stanley Raffel

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• Facts may seem to be independent, but in this study Stanley Raffle looks at them as expressions of commitment. Medical records, he believes, furnish a... Lees meer

Conservative Capitalism in Britain and the United States (Rle Social Theory)

Raymond Plant, Kenneth Hoover

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• The shock waves of conservative advances have reached into every corner of American and British politics. Parties of the right have prospered, while p... Lees meer

Animals and Society

Keith Tester

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory | nr. 3
• Animals and Society uses a variety of historical sources and a coherent social theory to tell the story of the invention of animal rights. It moves fr... Lees meer

Sceptical Sociology (Rle Social Theory)

John Carroll

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• John Carroll contends that since 1918 sociology has distinguished itself by making society appear as dull as it is at its worst. Using barbaric jargon... Lees meer

Field-Theory

Harald Mey

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• This is an important account of the development of the 'field-theory' approach in the social sciences. Harald Mey concentrates on the writers from the... Lees meer

Logic and Social Choice (Rle Social Theory)

Yasusuke Murakami

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• How is a social decision made out of individual members' decisions? This is one of the primary questions in the social sciences. Logic and Social Choi... Lees meer

Knowledge and Social Structure

Peter Hamilton

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• The primary concern of this study is to present, elucidate and analyse the developments which have characterized the sociology of knowledge, and which... Lees meer

Civil Society (Rle Social Theory)

Keith Tester

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• This major study discusses some of the meanings and preconditions of freedom, responsibility and social order. The author argues that these are proble... Lees meer

Talcott Parsons and the Social Image of Man (Rle Social Theory)

Ken Menzies

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
• This account of Talcott Parsons's work clarifies his basic concepts and sets out their correlation. Dr Menzies believes that the philosophy of science... Lees meer