Description
Book SynopsisThis is a robust text - challenging and provocative and one which students will benefit from reading. Layder guides the reader through a large body of relevant literature. He draws attention to the strengths and weaknesses of particular approaches as he sees them and he is not afraid to offer his own judgements on the issues and problems he addresses.
- Professor John Eldridge, University of GlasgowOne of the most comprehensive, incisive and readable treatments of the macro-micro problem now available.
- Professor Paul Colomy, University of DenverThis is a revised, updated and enlarged version of the accessible, authoritative first edition - a jargon-free textbook that provides an introduction to the core issues in social theory. It includes:
- Chapter previews, summaries and a glossary of key terms.
- A 'problem focus' that encourages students to acquire skills of argument and disc
Table of Contents
A Map of the Terrain PART ONE: THE VIEW FROM ON HIGH The Legacy of Talcott Parsons Varieties of Marxism PART TWO: WHERE THE ACTION IS Meanings, Situations and Experience Perceiving and Accomplishing PART THREE: BREAKING FREE AND BURNING BRIDGES Foucault and the Postmodern Turn Beyond Micro and Macro: Abandoning False Problems Gidden′s Structuration Theory PART FOUR: ONLY CONNECT: FORGING LINKS Linking Agency and Structure and Macro and Micro Habermas′s Lifeworld and System Varieties of Dualism New Directions: The Theory of Social Domains
