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Social theory
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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10 Nov 1992
TL;DR: The author's preface and conclusion: Theory and Epistemology of the Body: Interview with Richard Fardon.
Abstract: Acknowledgements, Author's Preface, Introduction, Part One: Discovering Bodies, 1. The Body Question: Recent Developments in Social Theory, 2. The Absent Body in Structuration Theory, 3. Reflections on the Epistemology of the Hand, Part Two: Medical Sociology, 4. The Interdisciplinary Curriculum: From Social Medicine to Postmodernism, 5. The Body and Medical Sociology, Part Three: Regimes of Regulation, 6. The Government of the Body: Medical Regimes and the Rationalization of Diet, 7. The Anatomy Lesson: A Note on the Merton Thesis, 8. The Talking Disease, Conclusion: Theory and Epistemology of the Body: Interview with Richard Fardon, Appendix
616 citations
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01 Jan 1994
TL;DR: A Map of the Terrain this paper presents a view from on high of the world from the perspective of Talcott Parsons Varieties of Marxism and the postmodern turn beyond Micro and Macro: Abandoning False Problems.
Abstract: A Map of the Terrain PART ONE: THE VIEW FROM ON HIGH The Legacy of Talcott Parsons Varieties of Marxism PART TWO: WHERE THE ACTION IS Meanings, Situations and Experience Perceiving and Accomplishing PART THREE: BREAKING FREE AND BURNING BRIDGES Foucault and the Postmodern Turn Beyond Micro and Macro: Abandoning False Problems Gidden's Structuration Theory PART FOUR: ONLY CONNECT: FORGING LINKS Linking Agency and Structure and Macro and Micro Habermas's Lifeworld and System Varieties of Dualism New Directions: The Theory of Social Domains
614 citations
TL;DR: The authors discusses the living conditions of children in industrial society and presents new theories and interpretations regarding the position of childhood in modern society, in relation to family, economy, politics, time and space, intergenerational relations and demographic developments.
Abstract: This volume discusses the living conditions of children in industrial society, and presents new theories and interpretations regarding the position of childhood in modern society, in relation to family, economy, politics, time and space, intergenerational relations and demographic developments.
609 citations
TL;DR: This article reviewed the various debates ecological modernisation ideas have been engaged in, focusing on more contemporary discussions, which only to some extent reflect similar topics, and respectively entered into discussions with constructivists and postmodernists on the material foundation of social theory, review and refine the controversies with eco-centrists on radical versus reformist environmental reforms and contribute to neo-Marxist understanding of social inequality.
Abstract: Ecological Modernisation Theory has been faced with various challenges from different theoretical perspectives throughout the years. This contribution reviews the various debates ecological modernisation ideas have been engaged in. The article starts with a historical perspective on some of the earlier debates that paralleled Ecological Modernisation from its birth in the early 1980s to its maturation. These initial debates with earlier neo‐Marxists and deindustrialisation/counterproductivity theorists were formative for Ecological Modernisation Theory, but are no longer all of similar relevance today. Subsequently we concentrate on more contemporary discussions, which only to some extent reflect similar topics. We will respectively enter into discussions with constructivists and postmodernists on the material foundation of social theory, review and refine the controversies with eco‐centrists on radical versus reformist environmental reforms and contribute to neo‐Marxist understanding of social inequaliti...
605 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors call attention to the modern collective construction of expansive models of actors, the rapid diffusion and adoption of elaborated models of actor agency and rights, the decoupled character of actor identities and activities in the modern system, and the extraordinary mobilizing potential built into the elaborated model of individual and organizational actors in world society.
Abstract: Much modern social theory depicts society as made up of autonomous and purposive individual and organized actors. In reaction, the new institutional theories build arguments about the wider social conditions supporting stable systems of such agentic actors. Phenomenological versions, which are especially relevant to analyses of modern integrating but stateless world society, treat actor identities as themselves constructed in the wider and now global cultural context. These ideas call attention to the modern collective construction of expansive models of actors, the rapid diffusion and adoption of elaborated models of actor agency and rights, the consequently decoupled character of actor identities and activities in the modern system, and the extraordinary mobilizing potential built into the elaborated models of individual and organizational actors in world society and into the inconsistencies between these models and activity.
605 citations