LEADER 04592nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910789891003321 005 20111123144721.0 010 $a1-283-35468-3 010 $a9786613354686 010 $a0-85724-822-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000131904 035 $a(EBL)823643 035 $a(OCoLC)762190869 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000613283 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12292191 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000613283 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10584756 035 $a(PQKB)10348515 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC823643 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL823643 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10520742 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL335468 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bslw08039972 035 $a(PPN)187305129 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000131904 100 $a20111123d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe diversity of social theories$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Harry F. Dahms 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBingley [England] $cEmerald Group Pub.$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (254 p.) 225 1 $aCurrent perspectives in social theory,$x0278-1204 ;$vv. 29 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-85724-821-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction / Harry F. Dahms -- The epistemological fate of the authoritarian character studies of the Frankfurt School : a legacy for the study of racism, antisemitism, and fascism? / Helgard Kramer -- Charisma and critique : critical theory, authority, and the critique of political theology / David Norman Smith -- Trauma and the limits of redemptive critique : interrogating the haunting voices of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution / Karl P. Benziger, Richard R. Weiner -- The direction of contemporary critical theory : a response to Amy Allen's The politics of our selves / Colin Koopman -- Who are we and who do we want to be? : Amy Allen's The politics of our selves / Johanna Meehan -- Explaining the power of gendered subjectivity / Christopher F. Zurn -- Power, autonomy, and gender : reply to critics / Amy Allen -- Stranger to you and stranger to myself? : theorizing self-estrangement / Natalia Ruiz-Junco -- For pragmatic public sociology : theory and practice after the pragmatic turn / Eric Royal Lybeck -- Empire, global capitalism, and theory : reconsidering Hardt and Negri / Jeb Sprague -- Zizek's negative (positive) project or, negativity as positive possibility / Geoff Pfeifer. 330 $aSince the time when Talcott Parsons pursued the project of one overarching 'general theory of society', the landscape of social theory has vastly changed, and the pluralism and multidimensionality increased tremendously. Today, with so many different approaches in and to social theory, and multiple ways of defining and describing their relationship to and relevance for the social sciences, there has been a growing danger of diversity and pluralism tipping into fragmentation, making the prospect of social scientists and sociologists being able to communicate with the expectation of reaching some kind of understanding, ever less likely. This volume presents alternative trajectories for how to take steps toward achieving a theoretically informed understanding of the present analytical and practical challenges (in terms of social, sociological, and critical theory), and looks beyond pluralism and fragmentation to the kind of roles social theorists may be playing in the future. These essays revisit the issue of common agenda (or lack thereof) in social theory and provide critical overviews by specialists working in social theory, sociological theory, and critical theory. 410 0$aCurrent perspectives in social theory ;$vv. 29. 606 $aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy 606 $aSocial Science$xSociology$xGeneral$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial Science$xResearch$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial Science$xGeneral$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial theory$2bicssc 606 $aSociology$2bicssc 615 0$aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy. 615 7$aSocial Science$xSociology$xGeneral. 615 7$aSocial Science$xResearch. 615 7$aSocial Science$xGeneral. 615 7$aSocial theory. 615 7$aSociology. 676 $a300.1 676 $a300.902 701 $aDahms$b Harry F$01158483 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789891003321 996 $aThe diversity of social theories$93868653 997 $aUNINA