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Shaun Best - A Beginner's Guide to Social Theory (Theory, Culture & Society (Paperback)) - 9780761965336 - V9780761965336
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A Beginner's Guide to Social Theory (Theory, Culture & Society (Paperback))

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Description for A Beginner's Guide to Social Theory (Theory, Culture & Society (Paperback)) paperback. Best offers a comprehensive overview of social theory from classical sociology to the present day. The reader is guided through the work of Durkheim, Marx and Weber and contemporary thinkers like Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Gilles Deluze, Manuel Castells, Luce Irigary, Naomi Woolf and Camille Paglia. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 170 x 16. Weight in Grams: 496.
`This book is accessible, as a beginner′s guide should be, but without an over-simplification of the arguments. It should prove an immensely durable text for generations of students to come′ - John Hughes, Lancaster University

At last, a book that makes social theory for undergraduates a pleasure to teach and study. The book offers a comprehensive overview of social theory from classical sociology to the present day. Students are guided through the work of Durkheim, Marx and Weber, functionalism, action perspectives, feminism, postmodernism and contemporary thinkers like Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault, J[um]urgen Habermas, Frederic Jameson, Judith Butler, Gilles Deluze, ... Read more

The book is:

- Comprehensive

- Student-friendly

- Accurate

- Unpatronising

It offers lecturers and students an ideal study resource for undergraduate modules in social theory.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Thousand Oaks, United States
ISBN
9780761965336
SKU
V9780761965336
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2

About Shaun Best
Shaun Best is a Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Manchester, and author of Understanding Social Divisions, (2005) and A Beginner′s Guide to Social Theory (2003, both SAGE).

Reviews for A Beginner's Guide to Social Theory (Theory, Culture & Society (Paperback))
`This book is accessible, as a beginner′s guide should be, but without an over-simplification of the arguments. It should prove an immensely durable text for generations of students to come′ - John Hughes, Professor of Sociological Analysis, Lancaster University

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