The Social Lens: An Invitation to Social and Sociological Theory covers the key thinkers in Western thought for the past 200 years. Written in a conversational style that is both appealing and provocative, this text uses real life examples to draw readers in and invite them to consider the ideas that have shaped our understanding of society.
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"This, then, is the overall strength of The Social Lens: its broad coverage from the roots of positivism and modernity to the post modern theme of disillusioned discontent...As a textbook is informally written and its tone invites the student reader in to explore with the author each new chapter of uncovered ground....Allan also encourages students to think beyond the theory on the page to its implications for global society by providing what he calls "theory you can use" to assist students in further exploration. Allan's is a fresh, new and bold approach to the theory textbook."
-Barbara J. Denison, Shippensburg University
TEACHING SOCIOLOGY, Vol. 36, 2008 (April:161-184) (Barbara J. Denison TEACHING SOCIOLOGY, Vol. 36, 2008 (April:161-184) )
-Barbara J. Denison, Shippensburg University
TEACHING SOCIOLOGY, Vol. 36, 2008 (April:161-184) (Barbara J. Denison TEACHING SOCIOLOGY, Vol. 36, 2008 (April:161-184) )
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Kenneth Allan is Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of California at Riverside, 1995). Most recent teaching is in the areas of: Sociological Theory, Social Psychology, and Sociology of Culture. He has published numerous articles in theory, and a book in 1998, The Meaning of Culture, explicating cultural theory. He also contributed to Turner’s last two editions of The Structure of Sociological Theory. Over the past eight years he has taught well over 30 courses in social theory.
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Contemporary social theory is my class. Yeah, you almost fall asleep just thinking about it, right? Well since you have to read a textbook no matter what, this one might as well be it. Each chapter is summarized in a clear amd concise way. There are also study suggestions such as sample questions and exercises. I can't say that I have done, or will do, any of those, but a more disciplined student might.....and I'm sure they would be very helpful!
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interactionist theories, gender equity, secondary exchange relations, heartland advantage, exporting exploitation, marchland advantage, incorrigible assumptions, common emotional mood, theory cumulation, black feminist epistemology, gynaecocentric theory, standpoint inquiry, black nihilism, constructivist structuralism, cybernetic hierarchy, black feminist intellectuals, split labor market theory, restitutive law, organismic analogy, cultural armor, voluntaristic action, crosscutting influences, distance from necessity, culture generalization, embodied cultural capital Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Seeing Further, Learning More, Talcott Parsons, Max Weber, Identity Politics, Randall Collins, Constructing Society, Structures of Inequality, Karl Marx, Georg Simmel, Patricia Hill Collins, African Americans, Theory You Can Use, Seeing Your World Differently, Structural Functionalism, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu, Jean Baudrillard, Primary Sources, American Sociological Association, Immanuel Wallerstein, Ralf Dahrendorf, Jim Crow Browse Sample Pages:
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interactionist theories, gender equity, secondary exchange relations, heartland advantage, exporting exploitation, marchland advantage, incorrigible assumptions, common emotional mood, theory cumulation, black feminist epistemology, gynaecocentric theory, standpoint inquiry, black nihilism, constructivist structuralism, cybernetic hierarchy, black feminist intellectuals, split labor market theory, restitutive law, organismic analogy, cultural armor, voluntaristic action, crosscutting influences, distance from necessity, culture generalization, embodied cultural capital Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Seeing Further, Learning More, Talcott Parsons, Max Weber, Identity Politics, Randall Collins, Constructing Society, Structures of Inequality, Karl Marx, Georg Simmel, Patricia Hill Collins, African Americans, Theory You Can Use, Seeing Your World Differently, Structural Functionalism, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu, Jean Baudrillard, Primary Sources, American Sociological Association, Immanuel Wallerstein, Ralf Dahrendorf, Jim Crow Browse Sample Pages:
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