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About: Social theory is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 11421 publications have been published within this topic receiving 624898 citations.


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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: Hardt as discussed by the authors discusses the need to come to terms with the role of history in academic work and locates the intellectual history within the context of competing social theories, and provides a substantive foundation for understanding the field.
Abstract: The development of communication studies has been a lively process of adoption and integration of theoretical constructs from Pragmatism, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Critical Communication Studies describes the intellectual and professional forces that have shaped research interests and formed alliances in the pursuit of particular goals. Hanno Hardt reflects on the need to come to terms with the role of history in academic work and locates the intellectual history within the context of competing social theories. The book provides a substantive foundation for understanding the field and will be a major text in all courses dealing with communication history and theory.

149 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: It is argued that the postgenomic language of extended epigenetic inheritance and blurring of the nature/nurture boundaries will be as provocative for neo-Darwinism as it is for the social sciences as the authors have known them.
Abstract: In this paper I first offer a systematic outline of a series of conceptual novelties in the life-sciences that have favoured, over the last three decades, the emergence of a more social view of bio...

149 citations

Book
01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a journey organized by Friedrich Engels from feudalism to capitalism: the place of the city working classes map the city remapping the city, and the city is transformed into a city.
Abstract: Marxism and the city? themes in Marxist social theory towards a respatialized Marxism: Lefebvre, Harvey, and Castells capitalism, city space, and class formation: a journey organized by Friedrich Engels from feudalism to capitalism: the place of the city working classes map the city remapping the city.

149 citations

Book
13 Sep 1993
TL;DR: Social Theory: Its Uses and Pleasures * Modernity's Classical Age, 1848-1919 Estranged labour Camera Obscura (Karl Marx) Class Struggle (K. Marx and Friedrich Engels) The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte On Imperialism in India The Values of Commodities The Fetishism of commodities Labour-Power and Capital (K Marx) The Patriarchal Family (F. Engels) Anomie and the Modern Division of Labor Sociology and Social Facts Suicide and Modernity (Emile Durkheim) Primitive
Abstract: Social Theory: Its Uses and Pleasures * Modernity's Classical Age, 1848-1919 Estranged Labour Camera Obscura (Karl Marx) Class Struggle (K. Marx and Friedrich Engels) The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte On Imperialism in India The Values of Commodities The Fetishism of Commodities Labour-Power and Capital (K. Marx) The Patriarchal Family (F. Engels) Anomie and the Modern Division of Labor Sociology and Social Facts Suicide and Modernity (Emile Durkheim) Primitive Classifications and Social Knowledge (E. Durkheim and Marcel Mauss) The Cultural Logic of Collective Representations (E. Durkheim) The Spirit of Capitalism and the Iron Cage The Bureaucratic Machine What Is Politics? The Types of Legitimate Domination Class, Status, Party (Max Weber) The Psychical Apparatus and the Theory of Instincts Dream-Work and Interpretation Oedipus, the Child Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through The Return of the Repressed in Social Life Civilization and the Individual (Sigmund Freud) Arbitrary Social Values and the Linguistic Sign (Ferdinand de Saussure) The Self and Its Selves (William James) Double-Consciousness and the Veil The Spirit of Modern Europe (W.E.B. Du Bois) The Yellow Wallpaper Women and Economics (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) The Colored Woman's Office (Anna Julia Cooper) The Stranger (Georg Simmel) The Looking-Glass Self (Charles Horton Cooley) * Social Theories And World Conflict, 1919-1945 The Psychology of Modern Society The New Liberalism (John Maynard Keynes) The Irrational Chasm Between Subject and Object (Georg Lukcs) Notes on Science and the Crisis (Max Horkheimer) The Unit Act of Action Systems (Talcott Parsons) What Is to Be Done? (V. I. Lenin) The Sociology of Knowledge and Ideology (Karl Mannheim) Psychoanalysis and Sociology (Erich Fromm) The Self, the I, and the Me (George Herbert Mead) Social Structure and Anomie (Robert K. Merton) Moral Man and Immoral Society (Reinhold Niebuhr) The Negro Problem as a Moral Issue (Gunnar Myrdal) Disorganization of the Polish Immigrant (William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki) Personality

149 citations

Book
30 Aug 2012
TL;DR: Chan and John H. Goldthorpe as discussed by the authors studied social stratification of cultural consumption across three domains: music theatre, dance and cinema, and the visual arts, and concluded that social status and public cultural consumption: Chile in comparative perspective.
Abstract: 1. Social status and cultural consumption Tak Wing Chan and John H. Goldthorpe 2. The social status scale: its construction and properties Tak Wing Chan 3. Social stratification and musical consumption: highbrow-middlebrow in the United States Arthur S. Alderson, Isaac Heacock and Azamat Junisbai 4. Bourdieu's legacy and the class-status debate on cultural consumption: musical consumption in contemporary France Philippe Coulangeon and Yannick Lemel 5. Social status and public cultural consumption: Chile in comparative perspective Florencia Torche 6. Social stratification and cultural participation in Hungary: a post-communist pattern of consumption? Erzsebet Bukodi 7. Status, class, and culture in the Netherlands Gerbert Kraaykamp, Koen van Eijck and Wout Ultee 8. Social stratification of cultural consumption across three domains: music theatre, dance and cinema, and the visual arts Tak Wing Chan and John H. Goldthorpe 9. Conclusion Tak Wing Chan.

149 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202323
202241
2021232
2020308
2019305
2018326