Tony Simmons

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Restless Ideas

Contemporary Social Theory in an Anxious Age

How do we make sense of the rise of political strongmen like Trump and Erdoğan, or the increase in hate crimes and terrorism? How can we understand Brexit and xenophobic, anti-immigrant … 592 View
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Acknowledgements

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Prologue

The Changing Face of Contemporary Theory

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The Waning of the Western Worldview … 1 Eurocentrism and Its Discontents … 3 The Crumbling Canon of Social Theory: The Classics … 9 The Expanding Horizons of Contemporary Social … 20 $2.00 Add
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Why Do We Theorize?

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Living on the Brink … 21 Social Theory in an Anxious Age … 23 An Age of Indeterminacy … 24 Looking Back at Twentieth-Century Sociological Theory … 27 Looking Around at … 26 $2.60 Add
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Theorizing Our Human Systems

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Systems Are Everywhere … 47 Living in Systems … 52 A Brief History of the Social System … 53 The Language of Social Systems Theory … 55 From Anthropology to Sociology … 49 $4.90 Add
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Theorizing Our Conflict Zones

Conflict Theories of Society

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The Human Habit of Social Conflict … 96 Optimism, Pessimism or Realism? … 100 Origins of Conflict Theory … 102 Modern Sociological Conflict Theory … 105 The Structural … 42 $4.20 Add
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Theorizing Our Class Divisions

Neo-Marxist and Post-Marxist Theories of Society

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The Modern Legacy of Karl Marx … 138 The Many Faces of Contemporary Marxism … 147 Critical Theory … 150 Structuralist Marxism … 150 Post-Marxism … 164 The … 43 $4.30 Add
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Theorizing Our Dominated Lives

Three Generations of Critical Theorists

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The Critical Vision of the Frankfurt School … 181 The First Generation … 182 Herbert Marcuse … 187 The Second Generation … 194 Jürgen Habermas … 195 The Third … 51 $5.10 Add
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Theorizing Our Social Selves

Microsocial Theories of Symbolic Interaction and Dramaturgy

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The Rise of Microsocial Theories … 232 Other Microsocial Theories … 235 George Herbert Mead: Original Pioneer of Symbolic Interactionism … 239 The Vocabulary of Interactionism … 41 $4.10 Add
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Theorizing Our Methodical Lives

Ethnomethodology

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The Methods in Our Madness … 273 Studying the Common Sense Methods of Everyday Life … 275 What Ethnomethodologists Study … 281 The Vocabulary of Ethnomethodology … 282 … 38 $3.80 Add
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Theorizing Our Discursive Lives

Postmodernism and Poststructuralism

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The Postmodern Age … 311 What Is Postmodernism? … 314 Characteristics of Postmodernism … 315 The Roots of Postmodern Theories … 321 Michel Foucault: Pioneer of … 63 $6.30 Add
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Theorizing Our Gendered and Sexual Selves

Feminist and Queer Theories

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For Women, the Struggle Continues … 374 The Wave Narrative of Feminism … 376 The Many Faces of Feminism Today … 385 Standpoint Theory … 392 Intersectionality Theory … 44 $4.40 Add
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Theorizing Our Colonial Histories

Indigenous Knowledge and Social Thought

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Colonization and Knowledge … 418 Indigenous Knowledge … 421 The Decolonization of Indigenous Knowledge … 423 Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science: Beyond Contestation to … 23 $2.30 Add
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Theorizing Our Anxious Age

Theorists of Late Modernity

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What Is Late Modernity? … 441 From Modernism to Late Modernity: The Social Theories of Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu … 447 Structuration Theory of Anthony Giddens … 448 … 64 $6.40 Add
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Theorizing Our Shrinking World

Globalization and Its Discontents

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The Global Age … 505 The Many Voices of Globalization Theory … 512 Manuel Castells and the Network Society … 533 Ulrich Beck and the Risk Society … 538 References … 550 52 $5.20 Add
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Epilogue

The Expanding Universe of Social Theory

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From the Crumbling Western Canon to the Hidden Global Heritage … 559 References … 561 5 $0.50 Add