Contested knowledge : social theory in the postmodern era / Steven Seidman.
| Author/creator | Seidman, Steven |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford [England] ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1994. |
| Description | x, 361 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | pt. 1. The Enlightenment and the Classical Tradition: The Dream of Reason. 1. Grand Visions: Auguste Comte and Karl Marx. 2. The Promise of Sociology: Emile Durkheim and Max Weber -- pt. 2. Disciplining Theory: The Making of a Sociological Theory Canon. 3. From European Social Theory to American Sociological Theory: Talcott Parsons and the Autonomy of Theory. 4. The Triumph of Scientific Theory: Postwar American Sociological Theory and the Abandonment of Public Enlightenment -- pt. 3. Dislodging the Canon: The Reassertion of a Moral Vision of the Human Sciences. 5. Between Science and Politics: The Critical Theory of C.W. Mills and Jurgen Habermas. 6. Knowledge and Power: The French Poststructuralists. 7. The New Social Movements and the Making of New Social Knowledges. 8. Post-Enlightenment Paradigms of Disciplinary Knowledge: Refashioning Sociology. |
| Abstract | A study of sociological theory, from the classical sociologists (Durkheim, Marx and Weber), to contemporary social theories and movements, including feminism, poststructuralism, African-American thought and "queer theory". |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-350) and index. |
| LCCN | 93042087 |
| ISBN | 1557865078 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9781557865076 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 1557865086 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9781557865083 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 063118774X |
| ISBN | 9780631187745 |