Modern Sociological Theory |
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| Author:
| Waters, Malcolm |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8039-8532-2 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1993 |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $146.00 |
Book Description:
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This innovative textbook presents an up-to-date synthesis of the central debates in contemporary social thought. It offers a different framework for the study of social theory. By focusing on the core concepts and issues - rather than on schools of thought or individual theorists - Malcolm Waters relates past and present theory to the key concerns of sociology today.
Modern Sociological Theory gives a lucid overview of: the core concepts that sociological theory must address...
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This innovative textbook presents an up-to-date synthesis of the central debates in contemporary social thought. It offers a different framework for the study of social theory. By focusing on the core concepts and issues - rather than on schools of thought or individual theorists - Malcolm Waters relates past and present theory to the key concerns of sociology today.
Modern Sociological Theory gives a lucid overview of: the core concepts that sociological theory must address and attempt to reconcile - agency, rationality, structure and system; and the main phenomena that sociological theory sets to explain - culture, power, gender, differentiation and stratification.
It explains the major contributio