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List of contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
PART I
Contemporary social theory
1 The trajectories of social and cultural theory
Anthony Elliott
2 Critical theory of the Frankfurt School
Jordan McKenzie
3 Structuralism and post-structuralism
Sam Han
4 Structuration theories: Giddens and Bourdieu
Anthony Elliott
5 Feminist and post-feminist theories
Ann Branaman
6 Zygmunt Bauman and social theory
Keith Tester
7 Ideology and social and cultural theory
John Cash
8 Psychoanalytic social theory
Anthony Elliott
9 Social theories of risk
Patrick Brown
10 Networks
Thomas Birtchnell
11 Globalization Theory
Eric L. Hsu
PART II
Contemporary cultural theory
12 Cultural and social things: Is there a difference?
Charles Lemert
13 British cultural theory
Nick Stevenson
14 American cultural theory
Sam Han
15 Queer theory
Max Kirsch
16 The New Mobilities Paradigm and Social Theory
Louis Everuss
17 Race/ethnicity and social and cultural theory
Anthony Moran
18 Media and cultural identity
Nick Stevenson
19 The place of space in social and cultural theory
Simon Susen
20 Posthumanism
Anthony Elliott
Index
About the author
Anthony Elliott is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of South Australia, where he is Executive Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and Dean of External Engagement. Professor Elliott is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and Super-Global Professor of Sociology (Visiting) at Keio University, Japan.
Summary
This fully revised and updated edition of Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory offers a remarkably clear overview of social and cultural research in the social sciences and humanities, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for social and cultural theory in the twenty-first century.
