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This is one of a series on contemporary sociologists, this volume deals with Anthony Giddens, providing an introduction to his work in the first part, a set of paired contributions covering the main themes of Giddens' writings in the second part and comments from Giddens himself who also presents some aspects of structuration theory in "Structuration Theory and Sociological Analysis" in the third part of the book. The text finishes with biographical details about the contributors and offers an outline intellectual biography of Giddens himself.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Editorial introduction: Anthony Giddens - consensus and controversy, Jon Clark et al; general introduction Anthony Giddens and "The Classics", Gianfranco Poggi; Anthony Giddens, sociology and modern social theory, Jon Clark. Part 2 Consensus and controversy: structuration theory - structuration theory and social order - five issues in brief, Ira Cohen; milieu and structure updated - a critique of the theory of structuration, Arthur Stinchcombe; "interchange" - Cohen replies to Stinchcombe - Stinchcombe replies to Cohen; agency and structures, William Outhwaite; human agency and social structure - a critique of Giddens, Margaret Archer; "interchange" - Outhwaite replies to Archer - Archer replies to Outhwaite; functionalism - Giddens' critique of functionalism, Hans Joas; Giddens' analysis of functionalism - a critique, Jonathon Turner; "interchange" - Joas replies to Turner - Turner replies to Joas; time and space - context and bodies in flux - some comments on space and time in the work of Anthony Giddens, Allan Pred; the temporal and the temporizing in structuration theory, Gregor McLennan; "interchange" - Pred replies to McLennan - McLennan replies to Pred; interpretive theory/hermeneutics - hermeneutics and Giddens' theory of structuration, Hamish Dickie-Clark; hermeneutics and the crisis of social theory - a critique of Giddens's epistemology, Susan Hekman; "interchange" - Dickie-Clark replies to Hekman - Hekman replies to Dickie-Clark; class structure and class analysis - Giddens on classes and class structure, Dennis Wrong; Giddens on social class - a critique, John Urry; "interchange" - Wrong replies to Urry - Urry replies to Wrong; historical materialism - Giddens on historical materialism, Lewis Coser; Giddens's view of historical materialism, Tom Bottomore; "interchange" - Coser replies to Bottomore - Bottomore replies to Coser; theories of history and social change - "Grand Maps of History" - structuration theory and social change, Derek Gregory; reinventing the wheel - Anthony Giddens, Karl Marx and social change, Derek Sayer; "interchange" - Gregory replies to Sayer - Sayer replies to Gregory; the nation-state and the modern world system, Christopher Dandeker; the nation-state and violence - a critique of Giddens, John Breuilly; "interchange" - Dandeker replies to Breuilly - Breuilly replies to Dandeker. Part 3: structuration theory and sociological analysis, Anthony Giddens.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781850009832
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Falmer Press Ltd
  • Edition: New edition
  • Series Title: 2 Falmer international master-minds challenged: sociology
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 185000983X
  • Publisher Date: /12/1990
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • Weight: 850 gr


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