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Studies in social and political theory / Anthony Giddens.

By: Giddens, Anthony.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Hutchinson university library.Publisher: London : Hutchinson, 1979Description: 416 p. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0091292018 (pbk).Subject(s): Sociology -- HistoryDDC classification: 301.01
Contents:
Introduction: some issues in the social sciences today -- Positivism and its critics -- Max Weber on facts and values -- Functionalism: apres la lutte -- Notes on the theory of structuration -- Habermas's critique of hermeneutics -- Hermeneutics, ethnomethodology and problems of interpretative analysis -- Max Weber on interpretative sociology -- Marx, Weber and the development of capitalism -- Marx and Weber: problems of class structure -- Four myths in the history of social thought -- Durkheim's political sociology -- The 'individual' in the writings of Emile Durkheim -- Durkheim on social facts -- A theory of suicide -- The suicide problem in French sociology -- 'Power' in the writings of Talcott Parsons -- Remarks on the theory of power.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-403) and index.

Introduction: some issues in the social sciences today -- Positivism and its critics -- Max Weber on facts and values -- Functionalism: apres la lutte -- Notes on the theory of structuration -- Habermas's critique of hermeneutics -- Hermeneutics, ethnomethodology and problems of interpretative analysis -- Max Weber on interpretative sociology -- Marx, Weber and the development of capitalism -- Marx and Weber: problems of class structure -- Four myths in the history of social thought -- Durkheim's political sociology -- The 'individual' in the writings of Emile Durkheim -- Durkheim on social facts -- A theory of suicide -- The suicide problem in French sociology -- 'Power' in the writings of Talcott Parsons -- Remarks on the theory of power.

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Anthony Giddens, a British sociologist, was educated at Hull, the London School of Economics, and Cambridge, and is a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. His interests have been varied, but they tend to focus on questions related to the macro-order. Much of his theoretical writing deals with stratification, class, and modernity. Although he has concentrated on dynamic issues of social structure, he has also examined how social psychological concerns are part of this broader order of human relations.

(Bowker Author Biography)