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Index
Coverpage
Half title page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
I What is theory?
II The classical attempt at synthesis: Talcott Parsons
III Parsons on the road to normativist functionalism
IV Parsons and the elaboration of normativist functionalism
V Neo-utilitarianism
VI Interpretive approaches (1): symbolic interactionism
VII Interpretive approaches (2): ethnomethodology
VIII Conflict sociology and conflict theory
IX Habermas and critical theory
X Habermas’ ‘theory of communicative action
XI Niklas Luhmann’s radicalization of functionalism
XII Anthony Giddens’ theory of structuration and the new British sociology of power
XIII The renewal of Parsonianism and modernization theory
XIV Structuralism and poststructuralism
XV Between structuralism and theory of practice: The cultural sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
XVI French anti-structuralists (Cornelius Castoriadis, Alain Touraine and Paul Ricoeur)
XVII Feminist social theories
XVIII A crisis of modernity? New diagnoses (Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Robert Bellah, and the debate between liberals and communitarians)
XIX Neo-pragmatism
XX How things stand
Bibliography
Author index
Subject index
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