New PDF release: Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today

By Steven Seidman

ISBN-10: 1118227905

ISBN-13: 9781118227909

within the 5th variation Contested Knowledge, social theorist Steven Seidman offers the newest themes in social thought and addresses the present shift of 'universalist theorists' to networks of clustered debates.

  • Responds to present matters, debates, and new social movements
  • Reviews sociological conception from a modern perspective
  • Reveals how the common theorist and the period of rival faculties has been changed via networks of clustered debates which are rather 'autonomous' and interdisciplinary
  • Features updates and in-depth discussions of the latest clustered debates in social theory—intimacy, postcolonial nationalism, and the idea that of 'the other'
  • Challenges social scientists to resume their dedication to the $64000 ethical and political position social wisdom performs in public life
  • Accompanied via a spouse site for college kids at www.wiley.com/go/seidman that includes bankruptcy outlines and necessary net hyperlinks; an teacher website is also accessed which good points password-protected PowerPoint educating slides

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