<p>Some thirty years ago Jürgen Habermas introduced the idea of analyzing contemporary society from a historical and practical standpoint while remaining faithful to the canons of empirical science. Although the general features of this idea are still evident in his mature views, his original conception of critical social theory has undergone considerable development. The five essays translated in this volume provide an overview of the research program that has finally emerged.</p>

Communication and the Evolution of Society

Politics & Social Sciences

Habermas, Jürgen

Social Sciences

Polity Press

The Theory of Communicative Action: Reason and the Rationalisation of Society v. 1

Jürgen Habermas

Decarceration: Community Treatment and the Deviant - A Radical View

Andrew Scull

Health, Fitness & Dieting

SCULL, ANDREW T.

Psychology & Counseling

Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form. A particular feature is Giddens's concern to connect abstract problems of theory to an interpretation of the nature of empirical method in the social sciences. In presenting his own ideas, Giddens mounts a critical attack on some of the more orthodox sociological views. The Constitution of Society is an invaluable reference book for all those concerned with the basic issues in contemporary social theory.

The constitution of society: Outline of the theory of structuration

ANTHONY GIDDENS

The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas

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McCarty, Thomas

<p>This classic work of contemporary history remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most important contemporary academic traditions in history and social theory. Kaye analyzes the work of Maurice Dobb, Rodney Hilton, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, and E.P. Thompson.</p>

The British Marxist Historians: An Introductory Analysis

Kaye, Harvey J.

History

This classic work of contemporary history remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most important contemporary academic traditions in history and social theory. Kaye analyzes the work of Maurice Dobb, Rodney Hilton, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, and E.P. Thompson.

Europe

Foucault, Marxism, and History: Mode of Production Versus Mode of Information

Poster, Mark

Sociology

Surveillance, Power and Modernity: Bureaucracy and Discipline from 1700 to the Present Day

Biographies & Memoirs

Dandeker, Christopher

Professionals & Academics

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