01249cam a2200157   4500001000500000005001700005010001700022020001800039100001900057245004900076260003700125300003400162504006400196505079800260650003301058395720181127172259.0  a  2012406183  a97818474267411 aRansome, Paul.10aSocial theory for beginners /cPaul Ransome.  aBristol :bPolicy Press,cc2010.  axvi, 480 p. :bill. ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 465-472) and index.0 aIntroduction: who is this book for and how do I use it? -- What is social theory? -- Where did social theory come from? -- Emile Durkheim and the coming of industrial society -- Karl Marx, capitalism and revolution -- Max Weber, rational capitalism and social action -- Talcott Parsons, functionalism and the social system -- Social interactionism and the real lives of social actors -- Western Marxism, Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt School -- Language, structure, meaning -- Discourse and power: Post-structuralist social theory -- Feminist social theory -- Reviving theories of modernity: Habermas, Giddens and Bourdieu -- Theories of modernity and post-modernity -- Reflexive modernisation: the global dimension and cultural theory -- The boundary problem in contemporary social theory. 0aSocial sciencesxPhilosophy.