Contested Knowledge : Social Theory Today.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Conflicting Views of Social Theory -- Part I The Rise of the Classical Tradition -- Introduction to Part I -- Chapter 1 The Idea of a Science of Society: The Enlightenment and Auguste Comte -- Auguste Comte -- Chapter 2 The Revolutionary Theory of Karl Marx -- The Unity of Theory and Practice -- Historical Materialism: A Revolutionary Science -- Das Kapital: The Logic of Social Revolution -- Tensions between a Scientific and Moral Vision -- Chapter 3 The Promise of Sociology: Emile Durkheim -- Durkheim's Liberal Vision of History and Modernity -- Suicide: Individualism and Community Revisited -- Science, Truth, and Moral Hope -- Chapter 4 The Ironic Social Theory of Max Weber -- Puritanism and the Making of the Middle Class -- Explaining Western Modernity and the Irony of History -- Charisma and Bureaucracy: The Modern Dream Turned Nightmare -- Science, Truth, and Values -- Afterword to Part I -- Part II Rethinking the Classical Tradition: American Sociology -- Introduction to Part II -- Chapter 5 The Grand Theory of Talcott Parsons, Peter Berger, and Thomas Luckmann -- Talcott Parsons -- Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann -- Chapter 6 The Scientific Theory of Randall Collins and Peter Blau -- Randall Collins -- Peter Blau -- Chapter 7 The Moral Sociology of C. Wright Mills and Robert Bellah -- C. Wright Mills -- Robert Bellah -- Afterword to Part II -- Part III Rethinking the Classical Tradition: European Theory -- Introduction to Part III -- Chapter 8 The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas -- Social Critique as Reason -- Reconstructing Marxism as General Theory and Critique -- Failed Modernization: The Triumph of Instrumental Reason -- Chapter 9 Stuart Hall and British Cultural Studies.

Chapter 10 The Critical Sociology of Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu -- Anthony Giddens -- Pierre Bourdieu -- Afterword to Part III -- Part IV Revisions and Revolts:: The Postmodern Turn -- Introduction to Part IV -- Chapter 11 The Postmodern World of Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, and Jean Baudrillard -- Structuralism: A Vision of a Scientific Human Studies -- Jacques Derrida -- Jean-François Lyotard -- Jean Baudrillard -- Chapter 12 Michel Foucault's Disciplinary Society -- Rethinking Sexual Liberation: Foucault's Genealogy of Sexuality -- The Idea of a Disciplinary Order -- Chapter 13 Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology of Postmodernity -- From Modernity to Postmodernity -- Postmodernity and Sociology -- Afterword to Part IV -- Part V Revisions and Revolts: Identity Politics and Theory -- Introduction to Part V -- Chapter 14 Feminist Theory/Masculinity Studies -- Gynocentric Feminism: Dorothy Smith -- Difference Feminism: The Intersection of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Class -- Postmodern Feminism: Judith Butler -- Theorizing Masculinity -- Chapter 15 Critical Race Theory/ White Studies -- African-American Social Thought: Between Afrocentrism and Postmodernism -- Afrocentrism: Molefi Kete Asante -- Patricia Hill Collins: Multiple Standpoints -- Kwame Anthony Appiah: Deconstructing African Identity -- Theorizing Whiteness -- Chapter 16 Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Theory/ Heterosexual Studies -- Identity Theory: Adrienne Rich and Jeffrey Weeks -- Queer Theory: Diana Fuss and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Rethinking Heterosexuality -- Chapter 17 Colonial Discourse Studies -- Frantz Fanon -- Edward Said -- Homi Bhabha -- Afterword to Part V -- Part VI Revisions and Revolts: Theories of World Order -- Introduction to Part VI -- Chapter 18 From Nation to Globe: David Held and Mary Kaldor -- The Promise of Globalization: David Held.

Global Civil Society: Mary Kaldor -- Chapter 19 Global Capitalism : Immanuel Wallerstein and Manuel Castells -- Immanuel Wallerstein -- Manuel Castells -- Chapter 20 The Return of Empire? Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, David Harvey and Michael Mann -- Globalization as Empire: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri -- Imperial America: David Harvey and Michael Mann -- Afterword to Part VI -- Part VII The Rise of Postdisciplinary Theory -- Introduction to Part VII -- Chapter 21 Theorizing Postcolonial Nationalism: A Case of "Domain" Theorizing -- Chapter 22 Jeffrey Alexander: Reconstructing Democratic Theory in an Age of Disillusionment -- Toward a Foundational Theory of Society -- Toward a Postfoundational Theory of Society -- Theorizing Civil Society -- Chapter 23 Nancy Fraser: The Case for Radical Democracy -- Marxist-Socialism and Class Politics -- The New Social Movements and Identity Politics -- Redistribution and Recognition: Toward a Synthetic Critical Theory -- Reconsidering the Political Sphere: The Politics of Representation -- Afterword to Part VII -- Index -- EULA.

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