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Synopsis
Contested Knowledge is a well-established text offering up-to-date perspectives on social theory by one of the most important thinkers of our time. This fourth edition includes an exploration of globalization and a new section on the theories of global and world order. It provides a thoughtful and rigorous, yet highly accessible and reader-friendly account of social theory.
- Responds to current issues, debates, and new social movements
- Reviews sociological theory from a truly contemporary perspective
- Examines both classical and contemporary theories
- Combines social analysis and moral advocacy to demonstrate how social theory contributes to the making of a better world
- Challenges social scientists to renew their commitment to the important moral and political role social knowledge plays in public life
- A thoughtful and rigorous, yet highly accessible and reader-friendly account of social theory
- An accompanying website containing additional support for lecturers and students is available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/seidman
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From the Back Cover
From the classical sociologists (Durkheim, Marx, Weber) to contemporary social theories and movements (including feminism, poststructuralism, African-American thought, and Queer Theory), Steven Seidman presents a compelling new approach to the tradition of sociological theory and its established canon.
The Second Edition includes new sections on the theories of Alexander, Giddens, and Bourdieu, Stuart Hall and British Cultural Studies, and Wallerstein and post-colonial theory. Combining social analysis and moral advocacy, Contested Knowledge shows how social theory can work within the public, political sphere. Engaging the reader and the discipline alike it is the perfect introduction to social theory.
About the Author
Steven Seidman teaches Sociology at the State University of New York at Albany.
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- PublisherWileyBlackwell
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0631187731
- ISBN 13 9780631187738
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
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