The Constitution of Society is an invaluable reference book for all those concerned with the basic issues in contemporary social theory. Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade.
"One of the most creative among the younger generation of critical social theorists, Giddens stands alone in his concern for the classical tradition on sociology; but he also makes brilliant use of the latest philosophical and theoretical ...
Anthony Giddens is widely recognized as one of the most important sociologists of the post-war period. This is the first full-length work to examine Giddens′ social theory.
The work includes critical reviews of the works of central figures in Soviet psychology and other writers offering fruitful insights.
The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' – i.e. from the middle years of the nineteenth century until the First World War – and have ...
"It is likely that this book will be regarded as the most important piece of grand sociological theory in English of the past decade."—Mark Poster, University of California "This book will take its place alongside such major statements of ...
In this book the author interweaves a detailed study of Giddens's writings with independent arguments and original concepts to provide a comprehensive analysis of structuration theory's new approach to the subject-matter in the social ...
Giddens's analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber has become the classic text for any student seeking to understand the three thinkers who established the basic framework of contemporary sociology.
In this book Giddens concerns himself with themes he has often been accused of unduly neglecting, including especially the psychology of self and self-identity.
' From the new Preface This book is based on the highly influential BBC Reith lecture series on globalisation delivered in 1999 by Anthony Giddens.
This book offers a unique overview of the development of social theory from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the present day.
Wide-ranging and challenging, this book offers a host of new insights into how leisure theory has handled the question of gender difference and inequality.
"Written by some of the leading thinkers in the field, the book is an excellent resource for longstanding and contemporary issues in cultural theory. Comprehensive and well-written.
... are Giddens (1979), Merton (1967), Stinchcombe (1968), Cohen (1978, 1982) and Elster (1983). 22 For an example of this type of criticism, see Giddens (1986, p.322). 23 See, for example, Dahrendorf (1958) and Lockwood (1956). 24 Giddens ...
Examines the conflict between modern and postmodern theories in sociology and attempts to bridge the divide between them.
... functionalist in nature . For example , Marx does analyse the organisation of capitalism in relation to meeting the needs for ... Giddens's critique of functionalism centred on its failure to provide 316 BACK TO SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY.
... Giddens responds to the discourse on anomie with logicdevoidof intuition. He cannot grasp what Durkheim was trying ... functionalist focus on social order. Itseemstobethe casethatbecause Giddens rejectsthe problemofsocial order,he ...
The reader is guided through the work of Durkheim, Marx and Weber and contemporary thinkers like Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Gilles Deluze, Manuel Castells, Luce Irigary, Naomi Woolf and Camille Paglia.
Includes chapter summaries and concept review boxes. Giddens is affiliated with the London School of Economics. Duneier is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and the University of California-Santa Barbara.