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    • Edition number Second Edition
    • Publisher SAGE Publications Ltd
    • Date of Publication 6 December 2005

    • ISBN 9780761944553
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages224#336 pages
    • Size 232x186 mm
    • Language English
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    Long description:

    "This is a robust text - challenging and provocative and one which students will benefit from reading. Layder guides the reader through a large body of relevant literature. He draws attention to the strengths and weaknesses of particular approaches as he sees them and he is not afraid to offer his own judgements on the issues and problems he addresses."

     - Professor John Eldridge, University of Glasgow




     "One of the most comprehensive, incisive and readable treatments of the macro-micro problem now available."


    - Professor Paul Colomy, University of Denver




    This is a revised, updated and enlarged version of the accessible, authoritative first edition - a jargon-free textbook that provides an introduction to the core issues in social theory. It includes:


    • Chapter previews, summaries and a glossary of key terms.

    • A 'problem focus' that encourages students to acquire skills of argument and discussion.

    • A concluding chapter relating theory to social domains.

    • Relevant examples from everyday life to illustrate key theoretical issues. 


    It is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of social and sociological theory. 

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    Table of Contents:

    A Map of the Terrain
    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 Domains

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