Contested Knowledge (eBook)

Social Theory Today

Steven Seidman (Autor)

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2016 | 6. Auflage
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-16762-4 (ISBN)

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In the sixth edition of Contested Knowledge, social theorist Steven Seidman presents the latest topics in social theory and addresses the current shift of 'universalist theorists' to networks of clustered debates.

• Responds to current issues, debates, and new social movements 
• Reviews sociological theory from a contemporary perspective 
• Reveals how the universal theorist and the era of rival schools has been replaced by networks of clustered debates that are relatively 'autonomous' and interdisciplinary 
• Features updates and in-depth discussions of the newest clustered debates in social theory-intimacy, postcolonial nationalism, and the concept of 'the other' 
• Challenges social scientists to renew their commitment to the important moral and political role social knowledge plays in public life 

STEVEN SEIDMAN is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the author and editor of a number of books including Liberalism and the Origins of European Social Theory, The Postmodern Turn, Queer Theory/Sociology, The New Social Theory Reader (with Jeffrey Alexander), and Intimacies.

Inhalt

Title Page 5
Copyright Page 6
Contents 7
Preface 9
Acknowledgments 12
Introduction 13
Conflicting Views of Social Theory 14
Part I The Rise of the Classical Tradition 19
Introduction to Part I 21
Chapter 1 The Idea of a Science of Society: The Enlightenment and Auguste Comte 23
Auguste Comte 28
Chapter 2 The Revolutionary Theory of Karl Marx 34
The Unity of Theory and Practice 34
Historical Materialism: A Revolutionary Science 38
Das Kapital: The Logic of Social Revolution 41
Tensions between a Scientific and Moral Vision 44
Chapter 3 The Promise of Sociology: Emile Durkheim 48
Durkheim’s Liberal Vision of History and Modernity 50
Suicide: Individualism and Community Revisited 54
Science, Truth, and Moral Hope 57
Chapter 4 The Ironic Social Theory of Max Weber 60
Puritanism and the Making of the Middle Class 62
Explaining Western Modernity and the Irony of History 64
Charisma and Bureaucracy: The Modern Dream Turned Nightmare 67
Science, Truth, and Values 70
Afterword to Part I 73
Part II Rethinking the Classical Tradition: American Sociology 77
Introduction to Part II 79
Chapter 5 The Grand Theory of Talcott Parsons, Peter Berger, and Thomas Luckmann 82
Talcott Parsons 82
Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann 92
Chapter 6 The Scientific Theory of Randall Collins and Peter Blau 98
Randall Collins 99
Peter Blau 103
Chapter 7 The Moral Sociology of C. Wright Mills and Robert Bellah 109
C. Wright Mills 109
Robert Bellah 116
Afterword to Part II 125
Part III Rethinking the Classical Tradition: European Theory 127
Introduction to Part III 129
Chapter 8 The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas 131
Social Critique as Reason 133
Reconstructing Marxism as General Theory and Critique 136
Failed Modernization: The Triumph of Instrumental Reason 140
Chapter 9 Stuart Hall and British Cultural Studies 144
Chapter 10 The Critical Sociology of Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu 152
Anthony Giddens 152
Pierre Bourdieu 156
Afterword to Part III 164
Part IV Revisions and Revolts:: The Postmodern Turn 167
Introduction to Part IV 169
Chapter 11 The Postmodern World of Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, and Jean Baudrillard 171
Structuralism: A Vision of a Scientific Human Studies 172
Jacques Derrida 174
Jean-François Lyotard 179
Jean Baudrillard 182
Chapter 12 Michel Foucault’s Disciplinary Society 187
Rethinking Sexual Liberation: Foucault’s Genealogy of Sexuality 190
The Idea of a Disciplinary Order 196
Chapter 13 Zygmunt Bauman’s Sociology of Postmodernity 200
From Modernity to Postmodernity 201
Postmodernity and Sociology 205
Afterword to Part IV 209
Part V Revisions and Revolts: Identity Politics and Theory 213
Introduction to Part V 215
Chapter 14 Feminist Theory/Masculinity Studies 217
Gynocentric Feminism: Dorothy Smith 219
Difference Feminism: The Intersection of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Class 224
Postmodern Feminism: Judith Butler 227
Theorizing Masculinity 233
Chapter 15 Critical Race Theory/?White Studies 238
African-American Social Thought: Between Afrocentrism and Postmodernism 238
Afrocentrism: Molefi Kete Asante 239
Patricia Hill Collins: Multiple Standpoints 242
Kwame Anthony Appiah: Deconstructing African Identity 243
Theorizing Whiteness 246
Chapter 16 Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Theory/ Heterosexual Studies 251
Identity Theory: Adrienne Rich and Jeffrey Weeks 252
Queer Theory: Diana Fuss and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 257
Rethinking Heterosexuality 261
Chapter 17 Colonial Discourse Studies 266
Frantz Fanon 267
Edward Said 269
Homi Bhabha 271
Afterword to Part V 275
Part VI Revisions and Revolts: Theories of World Order 279
Introduction to Part VI 281
Chapter 18 From Nation to Globe: David Held and Mary Kaldor 283
The Promise of Globalization: David Held 284
Global Civil Society: Mary Kaldor 289
Chapter 19 Global Capitalism : Immanuel Wallerstein and Manuel Castells 293
Immanuel Wallerstein 293
Manuel Castells 297
Chapter 20 The Return of Empire? Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, David Harvey and Michael Mann 302
Globalization as Empire: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri 304
Imperial America: David Harvey and Michael Mann 307
Afterword to Part VI 312
Part VII The Rise of Postdisciplinary Theory 315
Introduction to Part VII 317
Chapter 21 Theorizing Postcolonial Nationalism: A Case of “Domain” Theorizing 320
Chapter 22 Jeffrey Alexander: Reconstructing Democratic Theory in an Age of Disillusionment 332
Toward a Foundational Theory of Society 333
Toward a Postfoundational Theory of Society 334
Theorizing Civil Society 337
Chapter 23 Nancy Fraser: The Case for Radical Democracy 343
Marxist-Socialism and Class Politics 344
The New Social Movements and Identity Politics 344
Redistribution and Recognition: Toward a Synthetic Critical Theory 346
Reconsidering the Political Sphere: The Politics of Representation 350
Afterword to Part VII 353
Index 356
EULA 365

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Praise for previous edition:

"In this tour de force, Steven Seidman surveys social theory from Auguste Comte to Zygmunt Bauman via feminism, world systems theory, queer theory, post-colonialism and much more. It is not just a survey, but rather a plea for a public sociology that is relevant, committed and morally challenging. In a style of writing that is at once direct, personal and engaging, Seidman provides a penetrating overview of the state of sociology that is critical but optimistic. Contested Knowledge now in its fifth edition gets better with age."

Bryan S. Turner, The City University of New York

"In his spirited defense of theory as a moral enterprise, Steven Seidman offers insightful, penetrating, critical, but always fair assessments of the theoretical contributions of a wide range of theorists past and present.... Written with an enviable clarity, in a style that is at once lucid and engaging."

Peter Kivisto, Augustana College and University of Turku

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.9.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Baudrillard • Citizenship • Foucault • Geographie • Geography • Geschichte u. Philosophie der Geographie • Gesellschaftstheorie • globalization</p> • Habermas • History & Philosophy of Geography • <p>universalist theorist • Political Philosophy & Theory • Political Science • Politikwissenschaft • Politische Philosophie u. Politiktheorie • Social Movements • Social Theory • Sociology • Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-119-16762-0 / 1119167620
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-16762-4 / 9781119167624