Product Details:
Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Palgrave MD (September 6, 1979)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0333272943
ISBN-13: 978-0333272947
Product Dimensions:
8.4 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
Editorial Reviews Product Description In this new book brilliantly organized study discusses Anthony Giddens' three main theoretical traditions in social sciences, that to overcome the division between Marxist and non-Marxist sociology: interpretive sociology, functionalism and structuralism allintitle index of pdf.Beginning with a critical discussion of the importance of structuralism to contemporary sociology of development, the author presents a comprehensive account of what he calls "the theory of structuring allintitle index of pdf." A central theme is that social theory must recognize, as done previously, that all social actors social good on the systems they produce and reproduce in their behavior. To inform the importance of this understanding, he argues, we need to rethink some of the concepts is fundamental, especially sociology.In, Giddens says, it is important to recognize the importance of space-time relationships in social theory. He rejects the distinction between synchrony and diachrony, static and dynamic, involving both structuralism and functionalism, and offers extensive critical commentary about how a book sociology.The approach that can be described as "non-functionalist manifesto" breaks with the three major theoretical traditions in social sciences TODAY "today, includes retaining the essential contribution of each Here Giddens, a number of areas of basic problem described in the Social Sciences:.. power and domination, conflict and contradiction, and social change, it concludes with a comprehensive assessment the most important problems in social theory today - issue. Paperback.
Tags: Central Problems in Social Theory (Contemporary social theory) (9780333272947) Anthony Giddens , tutorials, pdf, ebook, torrent, downloads, rapidshare, filesonic, hotfile, megaupload, fileserve
