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This collection of essays contains a selection of readings from the works of the pre-eminent social theorist, Anthony Giddens. A wide range of theoretical issues are covered, including the author's encounter with the writings of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Parsons and Foucault. The "reader" also presents elaborations of Giddens' own approach to the fundamental questions of social theory. His views on power, time-space and the relationship between action and structure are represented, as are his analyses of the "late modern age".

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Encounters with the classical traditions: critical interpretations of Marx; the political context of Max Weber's sociology; Durkheim's political sociology; Marx, Weber and capitalism. Part 2 Problems of action and structure: social theory and reproduction of social life; the concept of structure; structure, action, reproduction; lay knowledge and technical concepts; structural theory and empirical research. Part 3 Time and space: time-space, structure system; time-space distanciation; analyzing social change; the production of everyday life. Part 4 Domination and power: Parsons on power; critique of Foucault; class structuration; class and power; administrative power and the nation-state; the nation-state and military power. Part 5 The nature of modernity: a "discontinuist" approach; dynamic tendencies of modernity; trust and risk in social life; modernity and self-identity; love and sexuality. Part 6 Critical theory: Max Weber on facts and values; critical theory without guarantees; utopian realism; emancipatory and life politics.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780333587409
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Weight: 466 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0333587405
  • Publisher Date: 10 Aug 1993
  • Height: 216 mm
  • Width: 138 mm


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