Contested knowledge : social theory in the postmodern era /
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| Author / Creator: | Seidman, Steven |
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| Imprint: | Oxford [England] ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1994. |
| Description: | x, 361 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1659793 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. The Enlightenment and the Classical Tradition: The Dream of Reason. 1. Grand Visions: Auguste Comte and Karl Marx. 2. The Promise of Sociology: Emile Durkheim and Max Weber
- Pt. 2. Disciplining Theory: The Making of a Sociological Theory Canon. 3. From European Social Theory to American Sociological Theory: Talcott Parsons and the Autonomy of Theory. 4. The Triumph of Scientific Theory: Postwar American Sociological Theory and the Abandonment of Public Enlightenment
- Pt. 3. Dislodging the Canon: The Reassertion of a Moral Vision of the Human Sciences. 5. Between Science and Politics: The Critical Theory of C.W. Mills and Jurgen Habermas. 6. Knowledge and Power: The French Poststructuralists. 7. The New Social Movements and the Making of New Social Knowledges. 8. Post-Enlightenment Paradigms of Disciplinary Knowledge: Refashioning Sociology.