This text, written expressly for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in sociology, political science, English, and humanities courses provides a cogent and accessible explanation of critical social theory. Ben Agger introduces students to the Frankfurt School, postmodernism, theories of multiculturalism and difference, feminist theory, and cultural studies. Arguing for an integration of these theories, Critical Social Theories is a useful supplement to social theory texts. Throughout the book, Agger considers implications of critical social theory, making the book highly relevant to mainstream sociologists seeking theoretical guidance.
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Ben Agger is dean of liberal arts at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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A good book for an amateur Philosopher!,
This review is from: Critical Social Theories: An Introduction (Paperback)
Dr Agger has simplified the school of thought emerging on today's known as "critical social theory." This is a work which should be read before going to deep into the extremely complex issues of philosophy. This book will help those of us who have not alot of experience with philosophy understand the issues which are focused on in college philosophy classrooms!
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midwestern empiricists, midwestern empiricism, positive social theory, critical social theorists, bourgeois economic theory, postmodern social theorists, interpretive theorists, real sociologists, science aura, real sociology, disciplinary legitimacy, feminist social constructionists, postmodern social theory, critical social theory, positivist sociologists, mainstream sociologists, cultural studies movement, postmodern critical theory, critical social theories, critical social science, postmodern theorists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frankfurt School, United States, Western Marxists, Soviet Union, World War, New Left, Birmingham School, Communist Party, Western Marxism, American Sociological Review, African American, Jeffrey Alexander, Wright Mills, Fredric Jameson, Norman Denzin New!
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This book introduces readers to the varieties of critical theory. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
midwestern empiricists, midwestern empiricism, positive social theory, critical social theorists, bourgeois economic theory, postmodern social theorists, interpretive theorists, real sociologists, science aura, real sociology, disciplinary legitimacy, feminist social constructionists, postmodern social theory, critical social theory, positivist sociologists, mainstream sociologists, cultural studies movement, postmodern critical theory, critical social theories, critical social science, postmodern theorists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frankfurt School, United States, Western Marxists, Soviet Union, World War, New Left, Birmingham School, Communist Party, Western Marxism, American Sociological Review, African American, Jeffrey Alexander, Wright Mills, Fredric Jameson, Norman Denzin New!
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- History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics by Georg Lukács on 4 pages
- Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Max Horkheimer on 4 pages
- Soviet Marxism by Herbert Marcuse on page 67, page 154, and Back Matter
- Critical Theory: Selected Essays by Max Horkheimer on page 78, page 86, and Back Matter
- The Division of Labor in Society by Emile Durkheim on page 21, page 186, and Back Matter
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- Liberation Sociology by Joe Feagin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Critical Theory (Current Perspectives in Social Theory) (Current Perspectives in Social Theory) by LEHMANN on page 127
- Social Research: Issues, Methods and Process by Tim May in Back Matter
- Social and Cultural Theories: A Wrong Life: Studies in Lifeworld-grounded Critical Theory Vol 1 (Social and Cultural Theories , Vol 1) by Steven Dandaneau in Back Matter
- Social Policy and Discourse Analysis: Policy Change in Public Housing by Greg Marston in Back Matter
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