Social Theory: The Multicultural, Global, and Classic ReadingsCharles Lemert Pulls together long-established classics as well as engaging modern writing to create an essential collection of social theory. |
Contents
Its Uses and Pleasures | 1 |
Modernitys Classical Age 18481919 | 19 |
The Two Sides of Society | 28 |
Split Lives in the Modern World | 126 |
Social Theories and World Conflict 19191945 | 149 |
Action and Knowledge in a Troubled World | 161 |
Unavoidable Dilemmas | 194 |
The Golden Moment 19451963At | 215 |
Breaking with Modernity | 319 |
After Modernity 19792001 | 343 |
The Idea of the Postmodern and Its Critics | 355 |
Reactions and Alternatives | 371 |
New Cultural Theories after Modernity | 391 |
Global Realities in an Uncertain Century | 443 |
Global Uncertainties | 460 |
Rethinking the Past that Haunts the Future | 488 |
The Golden Age | 228 |
Doubts and Reservations | 255 |
Others Object | 268 |
Will the Center Hold? 19631979 | 287 |
Experiments at Renewal and Reconstruction | 298 |
Social Theory at the Limits of the Social | 518 |
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