Restless Ideas
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Restless Ideas

Contemporary Social Theory in an Anxious Age

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eBook - ePub

Restless Ideas

Contemporary Social Theory in an Anxious Age

About this book

How do we make sense of the rise of political strongmen like Trump and Erdo?an, or the increase in hate crimes and terrorism? How can we understand Brexit and xenophobic, anti-immigrant sentiments and policies? More importantly, what can we do to make it all stop?

In Restless Ideas, Tony Simmons illustrates how social theory provides us with the skills for more informed observation, analysis and empathic understanding of social behaviour and social interaction. Social theory deepens our understanding of the world around us by empowering us to become practical theorists in our own lives.

Simmons traces the roots of contemporary social theory back to the works of the early structural functionalists, systems theorists, conflict theorists, symbolic interactionists, and ethnomethodologists, and incorporates contemporary social thinkers theorizing from the margins who are redefining the canon. Later chapters focus on the current influence of structuration theory, feminist and queer theory, Indigenous theory, third wave critical theory, postmodernism and poststructuralism, and liquid and late modernity theories and globalization theories.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Prologue — The Changing Face of Contemporary Theory
  3. 1 Why Do We Theorize?
  4. 2 Theorizing Our Human Systems: Structural Functionalism and Systems Theory
  5. 3 Theorizing Our Conflict Zones: Conflict Theories of Society
  6. 4 Theorizing Our Class Divisions: Neo-Marxist and Post-Marxist Theories of Society
  7. 5 Theorizing Our Dominated Lives: Three Generations of Critical Theorists
  8. 6 Theorizing Our Social Selves: Microsocial Theories of Symbolic Interactionism and Dramaturgy
  9. 7 Theorizing Our Methodical Lives: Ethnomethodology
  10. 8 Theorizing Our Discursive Lives: Postmodernism and Poststructuralism
  11. 9 Theorizing Our Gendered and Sexual Selves: Feminist and Queer Theories
  12. 10 Theorizing Our Colonial Histories: Indigenous Knowledge and Social Thought
  13. 11 Theorizing Our Anxious Age: Theorists of Late Modernity
  14. 12 Theorizing Our Shrinking World: Globalization and Its Discontents
  15. Epilogue — The Expanding Universe of Social Theory
  16. Index