Modern Social Theory: Key Debates And New DirectionsThis book is intended for undergraduate courses in social theory for second and third year sociology students, as well as postgraduate and academic researchers. Secondary markets include social psychology, social geography, social anthopology, cultural studies. |
Contents
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Some basic propositions | 19 |
Coda | 28 |
The contours of everyday life | 29 |
Awareness selfdeception and emotion | 33 |
the role of discourse | 42 |
subjective careers | 47 |
Situated activity and social systems | 133 |
some preliminary conclusions | 145 |
Power and control in modernity | 147 |
Foucault and the nature of modern power | 148 |
Implications of Foucaults view of power | 151 |
Giddens on power | 164 |
Habermas and systemic power | 172 |
Power as multiform and interlocking | 174 |
the actors perspective | 52 |
Scheff on emotion and social interaction | 56 |
Encounters and trust | 62 |
Trust self and ontological security | 67 |
the person and social encounters | 73 |
The social fabric examined | 76 |
Some key terms and concepts | 82 |
The nature and modes of situated activity | 88 |
Habermass lifeworldsystem distinction | 99 |
Social domains and lifeworldsystem interlocks | 105 |
Settings and the duality of social relations | 110 |
Social systems fields of activity and contextual resources | 114 |
Culture ideology and discourse | 118 |
Resources social activity and discourse | 122 |
The nature and analysis of discourse | 126 |
power and everyday encounters | 189 |
Creativity and constraint in social life | 190 |
The nature of social constraints | 191 |
Discourse and social reproduction | 203 |
Goffinan and the interaction order | 210 |
Goffman and the loosecoupling of social orders | 216 |
The multiform nature of social processes | 220 |
The creation and replication of society and social life | 227 |
creativity and constraint in social life | 239 |
Conclusion | 241 |
Contours of the theory of social domains | 246 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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