In his Social Paralysis and Social Change: British Working-Class Education in the Nineteenth Century (1991) Smelser argues that every society can be regarded as 'in transition' along a number of basic cultural and institutional lines.
One consequence of this was that what became two of the key texts accorded status by the English-speaking world in the 1960s and 1970s-Marcuse's One Dimensional Man (1964) and Adorno's and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment ...
The book is: - Comprehensive - Student-friendly - Accurate - Unpatronising It offers lecturers and students an ideal study resource for undergraduate modules in social theory.
A Beginner's Guide to Social Theory
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Originallyfrom South Africa, he arrivedin England inthelate 1940s, making a name for himself chiefly through the analysis ofethnic conflicts. In Key Problems of Sociological Theory, Rex criticized Parsons primarily for his onesided ...
The book is: - Comprehensive - Student-friendly - Accurate - Unpatronising It offers lecturers and students an ideal study resource for undergraduate modules in social theory.
Including a helpful glossary of key terms and theorists, this accessible guide is essential reading for students and professionals in social theory, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, women’s studies and politics.
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This book is arguably the definitive undergraduate textbook on contemporary social theory.