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Allan, Kenneth, 1951-

Contemporary social and sociological theory : visualizing social worlds / Kenneth Allan. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, c2006. - xvi, 455 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-445) and index.

Having a thought -- Symbols, meaning & the social self : George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) and Herbert Blumer (1900-1987) -- Constructing social reality : Peter Berger (1929-) and Thomas Luckmann (1927-) -- Organizing ordinary life : Harold Garfinkel (1917-) -- Performing the self : Erving Goffman (1922-1982) -- Emotion and interaction ritual chains : Randall Collins (1941-) -- Social and population structures : Peter M. Blau (1918-2002) -- Gender inequality : Janet Saltzman Chafetz (1942-) -- The replication of class : Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) -- Global capitalism and the decline of American hegemony : Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-) -- Social systems and their environments : Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) -- Modernity and reason : Jürgen Habermas (1929-) -- The juggernaut of modernity : Anthony Giddens (1938-) -- Defining the possible and impossible : Michel Foucault (1926-1984) -- Language on the rocks : Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) -- The end of everything : Jean Baudrillard (1929-) -- Race matters : Cornel West (1953-) -- Gendered consciousness : Dorothy E. Smith (1926-) -- Materializing sex and queer theory : Judith Butler (1956-) -- On being unsettled.

ISBN: 1412913624

LCCN: 2005030933

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA623014 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013403066 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sociology.
Sociology--Philosophy.
Sociologists.

LC Class. No.: HM585 / .A52 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 301.01