Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
Classes, Strata and Power (RLE Social Theory)
1st Edition
By Wlodzimierz Wesolowski
January 20, 2016
Professor Wesolowski presents a detailed study of Marx's theory of class structure and compares it with non-Marxist theories of social stratification, in particular the functionalist theory of stratification and the theory of power elite. He is also concerned to develop and extend the Marxist ...
Explorations in Structural Analysis: Dual and Multiple Networks of Social Interaction
1st Edition
By Ronald Breiger
January 20, 2016
At a time when most of the innovative techniques in empirical sociology concern themselves with networks of relations among variables (such as indices of occupational prestige, education and income), the central theme of this volume is that there is much substantive insight and analytical leverage ...
Marx and Mead: Contributions to a Sociology of Knowledge
1st Edition
By Tom Goff
January 20, 2016
It has often been suggested that a resolution of issues generated by the sociological study of ideas might be reached through a synthesis of specific insights to be found in the works of Karl Marx and George Herbert Mead. The present study originated in an investigation of this hypothesis, ...
Positivism and Sociology: Explaining Social Life
1st Edition
By Peter Halfpenny
January 20, 2016
Any serious attempt to explain social life has to come to terms with sociology's positivist legacy. It is a heritage on the one hand from the seventeenth-century political arithmeticians and the later moral statisticians who believed that quantification would provide the basis for a dispassionate ...
Sociology and Social Research (RLE Social Theory)
1st Edition
By Geoff Payne, Robert Dingwall, Judy Payne, Mick Carter
January 20, 2016
A social science which has become so remote from the society which pays for its upkeep is ultimately doomed, threatened less by repression than by intellectual contempt and financial neglect. This is the message of the authors of this book in this reassessment of the evolution and present state of ...
Structuralist Analysis in Contemporary Social Thought: A Comparison of the Theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Louis Althusser
1st Edition
By Miriam Glucksmann
January 20, 2016
The primary concern of this book is to investigate whether or not structuralism constitutes a distinctive framework in the social sciences. The author focuses on two major structuralist thinkers, Louis Althusser and Claude Lévi-Strauss. She analyses and compares the structure of their theory, and ...
Talcott Parsons on Economy and Society
1st Edition
By Bryan S. Turner, Robert Holton
January 20, 2016
'In this remarkable collection of essays, Holton and Turner demonstrate that Parsonian sociology addresses the most central problems of our time – issues of sickness and health, power and inequality, the nature of capitalism and its possible alternatives. They develop a mature and original ...
The Dominant Ideology Thesis
1st Edition
By Bryan S. Turner, Nicholas Abercrombie, Stephen Hill
January 20, 2016
As a radical critique of theoretical sociological orthodoxy, The Dominant Ideology Thesis has generated controversy since first publication. It has also been widely accepted, however, as a major critical appraisal of one central theoretical concern within modern Marxism and an important ...
The Normative Structure of Sociology: Conservative and Emancipatory Themes in Social Thought
1st Edition
By Hermann Strasser
January 20, 2016
In this provocative analysis of the central issues and developments in modern social theory, Dr Strasser contends that enquiry into the function, tasks and mission of sociology as a discipline can be understood only in relation to the subject's historical development. He believes that a discussion ...
The Personal and the Political (RLE Social Theory): Social Work and Political Action
1st Edition
By Paul Halmos
January 20, 2016
Are human misery, poverty and despair a result of personal inadequacy or social injustice? Therefore is the solution to these problems psychotherapy or political action? In one of the most important books on social work for a decade, Paul Halmos tries to resolve a dilemma which many social workers ...
The Shaping of Socio-Economic Systems: The application of the theory of actor-system dynamics to conflict, social power, and institutional innovation in economic life
1st Edition
By Thomas Baumgartner, Tom Burns, Philippe DeVille
January 20, 2016
Actor-systems dynamics is an innovative, multidisciplinary methodology for investigating and analyzing social struggles over economic resources and the related interplay between economic and socio-political institutions and processes. The authors, sociologists and economists, offer a systemic ...
Class and Space (RLE Social Theory): The Making of Urban Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Nigel Thrift, Peter Williams
December 18, 2015
This book is abut the place of space in the study of class formation. It consists of a set of papers that fix on different aspects of the human geography of class formation at different points in the history of Britain and the United States over the course of the last 200 years. The book shows that...