Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory
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Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory

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Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory

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Clear and accessible, Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory makes difficult ideas available to an undergraduate audience. 
- Larry Ray, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent

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This is an essential companion for reading for students across the social sciences who are exploring critical theory for the first time.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Alienation
  7. Anomie
  8. Body-subject
  9. Body-power/bio-power
  10. Capital (in the work of Pierre Bourdieu)
  11. Citizenship
  12. Colonization of the Life World
  13. Crisis
  14. Cycles of Contention
  15. Deconstruction
  16. Discourse
  17. Discourse Ethics
  18. Doxa
  19. Epistemological Break
  20. Field
  21. Freedom
  22. Globalization
  23. Habitus
  24. Hegemony
  25. Hexis/body Techniques
  26. Humanism and anti-Humanism
  27. Hybridity
  28. I and me
  29. Id, Ego and Superego
  30. Ideal Speech Situation
  31. Identity (personal, social, collective and ‘the politics of’)
  32. Ideology
  33. Illusio
  34. Imaginary, Symbolic and Real
  35. Intersubjectivity
  36. Knowledge Constitutive Interests
  37. Lifeworld
  38. Mirror Stage and the Ego
  39. New Social Movements
  40. Orientalism
  41. Patriarchy
  42. Performativity
  43. Power
  44. Power/Knowledge
  45. Public sphere
  46. Racism(s] and Ethnicity
  47. Rationality
  48. Realism
  49. Recognition (desire and struggle for)
  50. Relationalism (vs substantialism)
  51. Repertoires of Contention
  52. Repression (psychoanalysis)
  53. Sex/Gender Distinction
  54. Social Capital
  55. Social Class
  56. Social Constructions/Social Constructionism
  57. Social Movements
  58. Social Space I (Bourdieu)
  59. Social Space II (networks)
  60. Symbolic Power/Symbolic Violence
  61. System and Lifeworld
  62. Unconscious (the)
  63. Bibliography