Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory

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If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michael Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek. The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory is fully revised and updated to provide students, teachers and researchers with a comprehensive, critical guide to the major traditions of thought in social and cultural theory, as well as tracing the complex intellectual connections between these distinct but related approaches to understanding society and culture. The Handbook, edited by acclaimed sociologist Anthony Elliott, develops a powerful argument for bringing together social and cultural theory more systematically than ever before. Key social and cultural theories, ranging from classical approaches to postmodern, psychoanalytic and post-feminist approaches, are drawn together and critically appraised. There are also new chapters on mobilities and migrations, as well as posthumanism. The Handbook, written in a clear and direct style will appeal to a wide audience of students and scholars. The extensive references and sources will direct students to areas of further study. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgements Part I: Contemporary Social Theory 1 The Trajectories of Social and Cultural Theory 2 Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School 3 Structuralism and Post-Structuralism 4 Structuration Theories: Giddens and Bourdieu 5 Feminist and Post-Feminist Theories 6 Zygmunt Bauman and Social Theory 7 Ideology and Social and Cultural Theory 8 Psychoanalytic Social Theory 9 Social Theories of Risk 10 Net Works 11 Globalization Theory Part II: Contemporary Cultural Theory 12 Cultural and Social Things: Is there a Difference? 13 British Cultural Theory 14 American Cultural Theory 15 Queer Theory 16 The New Mobilities Paradigm and Social Theory 17 Race/ethnicity and Social and Cultural Theory 18 Media and Cultural Identity 19 The Place of Space in Social and Cultural Theory 20 Posthumanism Index