The revised edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a
clear, accessible and comprehensive introduction to modern social
theory.As with the first edition, the book is based around the
themes of structure and action. After the introductory chapters
which examine the nature of theory and its role in the social
world, the book then turns to theories of action and the inability
of those theories to comprehend social structures in a coherent
way.Part 1 covers: Parson's structural-functionalism and the
development of conlict theory and neofunctionalism; rational choice
theory; symbolic interactionism; ethnomethodology and structuration
theory.Part 2 looks at structuralism, structuralist Marxism, and
the development of post-structuralist and postmodernist theory.Part
3 examines Critical Theory and the work of Jurgen Habermas.In
conclusion, Ian Craib discusses current trends in theory and what
might be expected in the future.This second edition has been
revised throughout. There are new chapters on rational choice
theory and structuration theory and existing chapters have been
extended to deal with the development of neofunctionalism,
postmodernism and the recent works of Habermas as well as recent
developments in other approaches.Throughout, the aim of the book is
to demystify a diffcult subject area, emphasising the practical and
everyday nature of theoretical thinking in the context of making
sense of a rapidly changing world. The late Ian Craib was Lecturer
in Sociology at the University of Essex.
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