Understanding social theory /

• Layder, Derek.

• Social sciences -- Philosophy
• Sociology

• SAGE,

• 0761944494 (hbk.)
• 0761944508 (pbk.)
• 1848604645 (e-book)
• 9781848604643 (e-book)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• A Map of the Terrain: The Organization of the Book; PART ONE: THE VIEW FROM ON HIGH; The Legacy of Talcott Parsons; Varieties of Marxism; PART TWO: WHERE THE ACTION IS; Meanings, Situations and Experience; Perceiving and Accomplishing; PART THREE: BREAKING FREE AND BURNING BRIDGES; Foucault and the Postmodern Turn; Beyond Micro and Macro: Abandoning False Problems; Gidden's Structuration Theory; PART FOUR: ONLY CONNECT: FORGING LINKS; Linking Agency and Structure and Macro and Micro; Habermas's Lifeworld and System; Varieties of Dualism; New Directions: The Theory of Social.

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