Author: Seidman, Steven
Title: Contested Knowledge: Social Theory in the Postmodern Era
Description: Malden [MA] / Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, (1998). 2nd edition. orig.boards. 24x15cm, x,383 pp. Minor rubbing. Some page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contents: The Enlightenment & the Classical Tradition: The Dream of Reason:Grand Visions: Auguste Comte & Karl Marx; The Promise of Sociology: Emile Durkheim & Max Weber; Disciplining Theory: The Naming of a Sociological Theory Canon: From European Social Theory to American Sociological Theory. Talcott Parsons & the Autonomy of Theory; The Triumph of Scientific Theory:Postwar American Sociological Theory & the Abandonment of Public Enlightenment; Dislodging the Canon: The Reassertion of a Moral Vision of the Human Scineces: Between Science & Politics: The Critical Theory of C.W.Mills, Jürgen Habermas & Stuart Hall; Knowlegde & Power: The French Poststructuralists; The New Social Movements & the Making of New Social Knowledges; Refashioning Sociology for the 21st-Century.

Keywords: Social Theory, Sociology, Sociological, Methodology, Postmodern, Postmodernism, Postmodernist, ,