Social Theory: The Multicultural, Global, and Classic Readings
Autor Charles Lemert, Kristin Plysen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mai 2027
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032853918
ISBN-10: 1032853913
Pagini: 864
Ilustrații: 40
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 mm
Ediția:8
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032853913
Pagini: 864
Ilustrații: 40
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 mm
Ediția:8
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate CoreCuprins
Part One, 1397-1919: Modernity’s Classical Age; 1. Social Foundations of Modern Democracy; 2. The Unthinkable Two Sides of Society; 3. Split Lives in the Modern World; Part Two, 1919-1945: Social Theories and World Conflict; 5. Unavoidable Dilemmas; Part Three, 1945-1964: The Golden Moment; 6. The Golden Age; 7. Doubts and Reservations; 8. Others Object; Part Four, 1963-1979: Will the Center Hold?; 9. Experiments in Renewal and Reconstruction; 10. Breaking with Modernity; Part Five, 1969-2001: After Modernity; 11. The Idea of the Postmodern and Its Critics; 12. Reactions and Alternatives; 13. New Cultural Theories After Modernity; Part Six, After 2001: Global Realities in an Unknowable Future; 14. Global Uncertainties; 15. Rethinking the Past That Haunts the Future; 16. Can the Broken Modern Order Be Repaired? Or Replaced?
Recenzii
“It is not often that a comprehensive volume on social theory can be so provocative or its editors so forthright. Bringing together theorists from the classical western tradition with those from the global east and south, the volume invites us to rethink how our past shapes our future, what can be repaired and what can only be remedied by starting from scratch. It leaves no questions about whose side it's on, no middle ground for confusion.”
Frederick F. Wherry, Townsend Martin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
“This formidable collection of writings on social theory has long been, and is surely destined to remain, a classic. It represents a superb and extraordinary accomplishment. In this new edition, Lemert and Plys break new ground with work that is both a succinct summary of a vast field and a creative synthesis.”
Anthony Elliott, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Adelaide University and Super-Global Visiting Professor, Keio University
"Social Theory has always understood that the most important work of sociological theorizing is not to furnish answers but to keep asking better questions, difficult questions. This eighth edition of Social Theory — broader, more global, and more diverse than ever — arrives at exactly the moment when that disposition is hardest to maintain and most urgently needed."
Josée Johnston, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
“After witnessing a lynching in the early 1900s, the famous sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois remarked that he ‘could not be a calm, cool, and detached scientist while Negroes were lynched, murdered and starved.’ The 2026 edition of Social Theory by Charles Lemert descends from such Du Boisian radicalism, passion, and of making critical sociology in the interests of human rights. Lemert breathes fire as he speaks truth to power. He empirically illuminates the social causes and consequences of the joys and pain of the human experience, and in so doing, demonstrates how forging a better world depends on our relationships to the people, ideologies, and institutions around us. Read Social Theory not only to better comprehend the social sciences, but to become a more ethical and critical transformer of a deeply unequal world.”
Matthew W. Hughey, Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut and author of White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race
Praise for previous editions
"This anthology has helped transform social theory. Charles Lemert was a pioneer in bringing cultural diversity and globalization into dialog with classical sociology. The collection continues to break new ground today."
Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University, USA
“Lemert provides an illuminating introduction to the collection and introductions to each section that provide an overview of the socio-historical context and delineation of key thinkers and texts in each period. Combining important classical and contemporary material, Lemert's collection enables the student and reader to trace out the origins of the modern world to our present global and conflicted condition.”
Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles
“A rich, highly textured, historically sweeping, and strikingly inclusive collection”
Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University
"I fell in love with social theory because of this book. Charles Lemert’s reader provides an indispensable overview of the theories that shaped sociology as a discipline. His carefully curated collection leaves no stone unturned in its pursuit of a truly comprehensive guide to social theory, encompassing both well-known theorists and those whose voices were marginalized until recently. Thus, the book places the writings of Marx, Weber, Simmel, Durkheim, Freud, Mead, James, Parsons, Merton and Blumer alongside those of notable women and scholars of color, including Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, Jane Addams, Simone de Beauvoir, Franz Fanon, Dorothy Smith, Patricia Hill Collins, and Judith Butler. Equally impressive is the range of topics the Lemert’s book covers, from stratification, power, culture, social order, capitalism, and revolution to contemporary topics such as deviance, globalization, postmodernism, symbolic interaction, feminist theory, critical race theory, queer theory, semiotics, ethnography, ethnomethodology, neoliberalism, and world systems theory. The book was groundbreaking in its scope and inclusiveness when it was first published over thirty years ago, and it continues to set the standard for theory readers today."
Waverly Duck, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
"This book presents a provocative, wide-angle view of the history of social theory. Well-chosen selections from the new social movements as well as the classics and recent mainstream make this book a fine introduction to courses in the social sciences."
Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
“Powerful and provocative, Social Theory is an essential guide through the complex contours of multicultural ideology and theory from the nineteenth century to the present.”
Manning Marable, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Malcolm X
Frederick F. Wherry, Townsend Martin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
“This formidable collection of writings on social theory has long been, and is surely destined to remain, a classic. It represents a superb and extraordinary accomplishment. In this new edition, Lemert and Plys break new ground with work that is both a succinct summary of a vast field and a creative synthesis.”
Anthony Elliott, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Adelaide University and Super-Global Visiting Professor, Keio University
"Social Theory has always understood that the most important work of sociological theorizing is not to furnish answers but to keep asking better questions, difficult questions. This eighth edition of Social Theory — broader, more global, and more diverse than ever — arrives at exactly the moment when that disposition is hardest to maintain and most urgently needed."
Josée Johnston, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
“After witnessing a lynching in the early 1900s, the famous sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois remarked that he ‘could not be a calm, cool, and detached scientist while Negroes were lynched, murdered and starved.’ The 2026 edition of Social Theory by Charles Lemert descends from such Du Boisian radicalism, passion, and of making critical sociology in the interests of human rights. Lemert breathes fire as he speaks truth to power. He empirically illuminates the social causes and consequences of the joys and pain of the human experience, and in so doing, demonstrates how forging a better world depends on our relationships to the people, ideologies, and institutions around us. Read Social Theory not only to better comprehend the social sciences, but to become a more ethical and critical transformer of a deeply unequal world.”
Matthew W. Hughey, Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut and author of White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race
Praise for previous editions
"This anthology has helped transform social theory. Charles Lemert was a pioneer in bringing cultural diversity and globalization into dialog with classical sociology. The collection continues to break new ground today."
Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University, USA
“Lemert provides an illuminating introduction to the collection and introductions to each section that provide an overview of the socio-historical context and delineation of key thinkers and texts in each period. Combining important classical and contemporary material, Lemert's collection enables the student and reader to trace out the origins of the modern world to our present global and conflicted condition.”
Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles
“A rich, highly textured, historically sweeping, and strikingly inclusive collection”
Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University
"I fell in love with social theory because of this book. Charles Lemert’s reader provides an indispensable overview of the theories that shaped sociology as a discipline. His carefully curated collection leaves no stone unturned in its pursuit of a truly comprehensive guide to social theory, encompassing both well-known theorists and those whose voices were marginalized until recently. Thus, the book places the writings of Marx, Weber, Simmel, Durkheim, Freud, Mead, James, Parsons, Merton and Blumer alongside those of notable women and scholars of color, including Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, Jane Addams, Simone de Beauvoir, Franz Fanon, Dorothy Smith, Patricia Hill Collins, and Judith Butler. Equally impressive is the range of topics the Lemert’s book covers, from stratification, power, culture, social order, capitalism, and revolution to contemporary topics such as deviance, globalization, postmodernism, symbolic interaction, feminist theory, critical race theory, queer theory, semiotics, ethnography, ethnomethodology, neoliberalism, and world systems theory. The book was groundbreaking in its scope and inclusiveness when it was first published over thirty years ago, and it continues to set the standard for theory readers today."
Waverly Duck, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
"This book presents a provocative, wide-angle view of the history of social theory. Well-chosen selections from the new social movements as well as the classics and recent mainstream make this book a fine introduction to courses in the social sciences."
Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
“Powerful and provocative, Social Theory is an essential guide through the complex contours of multicultural ideology and theory from the nineteenth century to the present.”
Manning Marable, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Malcolm X
Notă biografică
Charles Lemert is University Professor and Andrus Professor of Social Theory Emeritus at Wesleyan University. Among his books are The Structural Lie (2011), Why Niebuhr Matters (2011), Uncertain Worlds (2013, with Immanuel Wallerstein and Carlos Aguirre Rojas), and Globalization (2015) and Uncertainties of Time (2026), with Immanuel Wallerstein, posthumously. In 2025 he published Americans Thinking America and Silence and Society.
Kristin Plys joins with Charles as heir apparent. For this edition she thoughtfully proposed additions to the collection. When the ninth edition of this book appears she will be fully engaged. She has published Brewing Resistance in the Global South (2020) which won the best book award on Global Sociology from the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences—and Capitalism and Its Uncertain Future (2022, with Charles). Kristin will soon publish Marxist Theory and Social History of the Global South, Ghosts of National Liberation will follow soon after. She is a professor of Sociology and History at the University of Toronto.
Kristin Plys joins with Charles as heir apparent. For this edition she thoughtfully proposed additions to the collection. When the ninth edition of this book appears she will be fully engaged. She has published Brewing Resistance in the Global South (2020) which won the best book award on Global Sociology from the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences—and Capitalism and Its Uncertain Future (2022, with Charles). Kristin will soon publish Marxist Theory and Social History of the Global South, Ghosts of National Liberation will follow soon after. She is a professor of Sociology and History at the University of Toronto.
Descriere
Social Theory brings together the work of classic and contemporary social theorists whose thought is thoughtfully introduced by Charles Lemert and Kristin Plys. The eighth edition of this book adds reminds us of the origins of democratic values and details how social theorists are rethinking the world.