Isaac Reed
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English
Description
In Power in Modernity, Isaac Ariail Reed proposes a bold new theory of power that describes overlapping networks of delegation and domination. Chains of power and their representation, linking together groups and individuals across time and space, create a vast network of intersecting alliances, subordinations, redistributions, and violent exclusions. Reed traces the common action of "sending someone else to do something for you" as it expands outward...
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English
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For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as another kind of natural science, while the other rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. Interpretation and Social Knowledge suggests a different route, offering a way forward for an antinaturalist sociology that overcomes the opposition between interpretation and explanation and uses theory to build concrete,...
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The landscape of social theory has changed significantly over the three decades since the publication of Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner's seminal Social Theory Today. Sociologists in the twenty-first century desperately need a new agenda centered around central questions of social theory. In Social Theory Now, Claudio E. Benzecry, Monika Krause, and Isaac Ariail Reed set a new course for sociologists, bringing together contributions from the...
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Spanish
Description
Ni un manual, ni un libro de texto, ni un simple comentario de la obra de "grandes nombres": este libro es a la vez más ambicioso y más aplicable al trabajo real y concreto de los investigadores en ciencias sociales del siglo XXI. La teoría social, ahora propone y explora, en palabras de sus AUTHORes, una nueva lista de tradiciones teóricas relevantes para entender y participar en la compleja trama de temas y enfoques que representa en la actualidad...
