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Informationen zum Autor BRYAN S. TURNER is the Presidential Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mellon Committee for the Study of Religion, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York and Director of the Institute for Religion Politics and Society at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne). He was the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor at Wellesley College (2009-10). His most recent publications are Religion and Modern Society (Cambridge 2011) and The Religious and the Political (Cambridge 2013). With Oscar Salemink, he edited the Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia (2014). He is the founding editor with John O'Neill of the Journal of Classical Sociology (Sage) and with Irfan Ahmad the Journal of Religious and Political Practice (Routledge). He received the Max Planck Award in 2015 for research on secularization and modernity: social and religious pluralism, and is a Guest Professor at the University of Potsdam. Klappentext * A comprehensive new collection covering the principal traditions and critical contemporary issues of social theory.* Builds on the success of The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, second edition with substantial revisions, entirely new contributions, and a fresh editorial direction* Explores contemporary areas such as actor network theory, social constructionism, human rights and cosmopolitanism* Includes chapters on demography, science and technology studies, and genetics and social theory* Emphasizes key areas of sociology which have had an important impact in shaping the discipline as a whole Zusammenfassung The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory builds on the success of The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, second edition (2000) providing a comprehensive guide to the principal traditions of social theory, whilst also exploring critical contemporary issues and engaging sociology with other major areas of the social sciences. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors viii Introduction: A New Agenda for Social Theory? 1 Bryan S. Turner PART I FOUNDATIONS 17 1 The Foundations of Social Theory 19 Gerard Delanty 2 Contemporary Sociological Theory: Post-Parsonian Developments 38 John Holmwood 3 Philosophy of the Social Sciences 60 Patrick Baert and Fernando Domínguez Rubio PART II ACTIONS, ACTORS, AND SYSTEMS 81 4 Theories of Social Action 83 Rob Stones 5 Functionalism and Social Systems Theory 106 Giuseppe Sciortino 6 Structuralism and Poststructuralism 124 Daniel Chaffee and Charles Lemert 7 Actor Network Theory and Material Semiotics 141 John Law 8 Ethnomethodology and Social Theory 159 Richard A. Hilbert 9 Rational Choice Theory 179 Raymond Boudon PART III PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS 197 10 Pragmatism and Symbolic Interactionism 199 Jack Barbalet 11 Phenomenology 218 Michael G. Flaherty 12 Feminist Theory 235 Mary Evans 13 Postmodern Social Theory 251 Jan Pakulski 14 Social Constructionism 281 Darin Weinberg 15 Conversation Analysis as Social Theory 300 John Heritage 16 Globalization Theory 321 John Boli and Frank J. Lechner PART IV SOCIOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 341 17 Genetics and Social Theory 343 Oonagh Corrigan 18 Economic Sociology 360 Richard Swedberg 19 Cultural Sociology 378 Isaac Reed and Jeffrey C. Alexander 20 Historical Sociology 391 Krishan Kumar 21 The Sociology of Religion 409 Michele Dillon 22 Demography 428 John MacInnes and Julio Pérez Díaz 23 Science and Te...
