Theorizing Modern Society as a Dynamic Process

Theorizing Modern Society as a Dynamic Process
Author: Harry F. Dahms
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2012-10-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1781900353

Emphasis is placed in Continental European social theory, and on the importance of political analyses to theorizing modern societies. This title focuses on dynamic processes that gave way to illuminate structural features of modern social life.

Theorizing Modern Society as a Dynamic Process

Theorizing Modern Society as a Dynamic Process
Author: Harry F. Dahms
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2012-10-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1781900345

Emphasis is placed in Continental European social theory, and on the importance of political analyses to theorizing modern societies. This title focuses on dynamic processes that gave way to illuminate structural features of modern social life.

Theorizing the Dynamics of Social Processes

Theorizing the Dynamics of Social Processes
Author: Harry F. Dahms
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2010-08-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857242245

Intends to assemble a set of essays that invent, develop, and/or demonstrate strategies for theorizing one or several dynamic processes, so as to identify, illustrate by example, and analyze specific problems as well as connect theorizations of process across different disciplines of inquiry.

Society in Flux

Society in Flux
Author: Harry F. Dahms
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2021-12-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1802622438

Society in Flux: Two Centuries of Social Theory traces how modern tensions and modes of analyzing them have changed over the course of the last 200 years or so, through three modes of theorizing: critical theory, classical theory, and systems theory.

Reconstructing Social Theory, History and Practice

Reconstructing Social Theory, History and Practice
Author: Harry F. Dahms
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1786354705

Taken from papers presented at the 2015 International Social Theory Consortium (ISTC), this volume focusses on “Reconstruction”, dedicated to taking account of and interrogating the possibility of picking up the pieces.

Social Theories of History and Histories of Social Theory

Social Theories of History and Histories of Social Theory
Author: Harry F. Dahms
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2013-12-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783502193

Representing a range of approaches and emphases, the chapters in this volume address and illustrate linkages between social theory and history; social theory and historical analysis as mutually supportive frames of analysis, and affinities between the history of social thought and the history of modern societies.

Globalization, Critique and Social Theory

Globalization, Critique and Social Theory
Author: Harry F. Dahms
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2015-11-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1785602462

In recent years, under the impression and the burden of globalization and neoliberalism, debates about the relationship between the theory and practice of progress - including the theory and practice of social critique - have gone through an unexpected and momentous revival, renewal and rejuvenation.

Mad Hazard

Mad Hazard
Author: Stephen Turner
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2022-09-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1803826711

Revealing an academic career not dependent on prestige and academic power, but also not untouched by hierarchy and academic politics, Mad Hazard is appealing for readers interested in the field of social theory, and beyond that, those interested in the evolution of intellectual life in the present university.

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory
Author: Michael J. Thompson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 732
Release: 2017-01-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137558016

This handbook is the only major survey of critical theory from philosophical, political, sociological, psychological and historical vantage points. It emphasizes not only on the historical and philosophical roots of critical theory, but also its current themes and trends as well as future applications and directions. It addresses specific areas of interest that have forged the critical theory tradition, such as critical social psychology, aesthetics and the critique of culture, communicative action, and the critique of instrumental reason. It is intended for those interested in exploring the influential paradigm of critical theory from multiple, interdisciplinary perspectives and understanding its contribution to the humanities and the social sciences.

The Centrality of Sociality

The Centrality of Sociality
Author: Jeffrey A. Halley
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2022-12-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1802623612

What do we mean by the word “social?” In The Centrality of Sociality, scholars respond to themes of The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and Humanities in dialogue with Michael E. Brown.