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Social Theory: A Historical Introduction by Alex Callinicos, X

Social Theory: A Historical Introduction by Alex Callinicos, X
The eighteenth-century Enlightenment saw the birth of an era which sought legitimacy not from the past but from the future. No longer would human beings invoke the authority of tradition; instead, modern societies emerging in the West justified themselves by their success at increasing, through the application of scientific knowledge, human control over the world. Ever since this notion of modernity was formulated it has provoked intense debate. In this wide-ranging historical introduction to social theory, Alex Callinicos explores the controversies over modernity and examines the connections between social theory and modern philosophy, political economy and evolutionary biology. He offers clear and accessible treatments of the thought of Montesquieu, Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment, Hegel, Marx, Tocqueville, Maistre, Gobineau, Darwin, Spencer, Kautsky, Nietzsche, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Freud, Lukacs, Gramsci, Heidegger, Keynes, Hayek, Parsons, the Frankfurt School, Levi-Strauss, Althusser, Foucault, Habermas and Bourdieu, and concludes by surveying the state of contemporary social thought. A remarkably comprehensive and lucid primer, Social Theory is essential reading for students of politics, sociology and social and political thought.



Social Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Present
Social Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Present
This comprehensive, multicultural, and cross-disciplinary anthology examines social theory and social thought from the major figures of the Enlightenment in France and England through the Postmodernists of the late Twentieth Century. "Social Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Present" features extraordinary breadth of coverage, with representative selections from the standard social theory canon, plus many others from the fields of political science, philosophy, the natural sciences, psychology, economics, literature, and linguistics. The author provides headnotes for each selection and introductions to the book's seven historical divisions. Alan Sica is a leading social theory scholar, director of an interdisciplinary social thought program at Penn State, former editor of the journal "Sociological Theory, "and former Chair of the ASA section on Social Theory.



Historical materialism - Historical materialism (or what Marx himself called "the materialist conception of history" - materialistische Geschichtsauffassung) is a social theory and an approach to the study of history and sociology, normally considered the intellectual basis of Marxism.

Social cycle theory - Social cycle theory (also known as sociological theory of cycles) is one of the earliest social theories in sociology. Unlike the theory of social evolutionism, which views the evolution of society and human history as progressing in some new, unique direction(s), social cycle theory argues that events and stages of society and history are repeating themselves in cycles and thus there cannot be any social progress.

Social exchange theory - Social exchange theory is a social psychological perspective that explains social change and stability as a process of negotiated exchanges between parties. Social exchange theory posits that all human relationships are formed by the use of a subjective cost-benefit analysis and the comparison of alternatives.

Social conflict theory - Social conflict theory is a Marxist-based social theory which argues that individuals and groups (social classes) within society have differing amounts of material and non-material resources (the wealthy vs. the poor) and that the more powerful groups use their power in order to exploit groups with less power.



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