Patrick Baert and Filipe Carreira da Silva Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

摘要

Revising Baert's Social Theory in the Twentieth Century (1998), this new volume now co-edited with Filipe Carreira da Silva sets out to provide a 'critical overview of the main contributions to social theory in the twentieth and early twenty-first century' (p. viii). Eight stand-alone chapters offer description and analysis of a particular strand of theory, each followed by a commentary on further reading. Chapter 1 starts with a comprehensive overview of French social theory from Durkheim to Saussure and Levi-Strauss to Bourdieu and French pragmatism. Chapters 2 and 3 repeat this exercise, first for func-tionalism and neo-functionalism and then for Mead, Goffmann and ethnomethodology.