Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory
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| ISBN13: | 9781138555822 |
| ISBN10: | 1138555827 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 406 pages |
| Size: | 246x174 mm |
| Weight: | 839 g |
| Language: | English |
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This fully revised and updated edition of Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory offers a remarkably clear overview of social and cultural research in the social sciences and humanities, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for social and cultural theory in the twenty-first century.
If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michael Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek. The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory is fully revised and updated to provide students, teachers and researchers with a comprehensive, critical guide to the major traditions of thought in social and cultural theory, as well as tracing the complex intellectual connections between these distinct but related approaches to understanding society and culture.
The Handbook, edited by acclaimed sociologist Anthony Elliott, develops a powerful argument for bringing together social and cultural theory more systematically than ever before. Key social and cultural theories, ranging from classical approaches to postmodern, psychoanalytic and post-feminist approaches, are drawn together and critically appraised. There are also new chapters on mobilities and migrations, as well as posthumanism.
The Handbook, written in a clear and direct style will appeal to a wide audience of students and scholars. The extensive references and sources will direct students to areas of further study.
"For those who are looking for a comprehensive guide to modern social and cultural theory, this is the place to start. Informed, comprehensive, invaluable; the book really is a milestone."
Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, University of Warwick, UK
"In a world in which different societies and cultures crisscross constantly, making an impact on each other, what we need is a navigator to instruct where we are and where should we go. This book will be a great guide, providing students and scholars with remarkably helpful and wide-ranging tools to gain an in-depth understanding of the social and cultural realities which we daily encounter in our contemporary globalized world."
Atsushi Sawai, Professor of Sociology, Keio University, Japan
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
PART I
Contemporary social theory
?1 The trajectories of social and cultural theory
Anthony Elliott
?2 Critical theory of the Frankfurt School
Jordan McKenzie
?3 Structuralism and post-structuralism
Sam Han
?4 Structuration theories: Giddens and Bourdieu
Anthony Elliott
?5 Feminist and post-feminist theories
Ann Branaman
?6 Zygmunt Bauman and social theory
Keith Tester
?7 Ideology and social and cultural theory
John Cash
?8 Psychoanalytic social theory
Anthony Elliott
?9 Social theories of risk
Patrick Brown
10 Networks
Thomas Birtchnell
11 Globalization Theory
Eric L. Hsu
PART II
Contemporary cultural theory
12 Cultural and social things: Is there a difference?
Charles Lemert
13 British cultural theory
Nick Stevenson
14 American cultural theory
Sam Han
15 Queer theory
Max Kirsch
16 The New Mobilities Paradigm and Social Theory
Louis Everuss
17 Race/ethnicity and social and cultural theory
Anthony Moran
18 Media and cultural identity
Nick Stevenson
19 The place of space in social and cultural theory
Simon Susen
20 Posthumanism
Anthony Elliott
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Index
