Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory

by Nick Crossley

• ISBN13: 9780761970606
• ISBN10: 0761970606
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781446225721
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-23
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

'Clear and accessible ' Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory makes difficult ideas available to an undergraduate audience' -Larry Ray, Professor of Sociology, University of KentThe SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding.Written by experienced and respected academics, the books are indispensable study aids and guides to comprehension.Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory:- Provides brief accounts of the central ideas behind the key concepts of critical social theory'¢ Prepares students to tackle primary texts and/or gives them a point of reference when they find themselves stuck'¢ Discusses each concept in an introductory way'¢ Offers further reading guidance for independent learning'¢ Is essential reading for undergraduates in sociology and across the social sciences.

Table of Contents

Alienation

Alienation

Anomie

Body-Subject

Body-Power/Bio-Power

Capital (in the work of Pierre Bourdieu)

Citizenship

Colonization of the Lifeworld

Crisis

Cycles of Contention

Deconstruction

Discourse

Discourse Ethics

Doxa

Epistemological Break

Field

Freedom

Globalization

Habitus

Hegemony

Hexis/Body Techniques

Humanism and Anti-Humanism

Hybridity

I and Me

Id, Ego and Superego

Ideal Speech Situation

Identity (personal, social, collective and 'the politics of')

Ideology

Illusio

Imaginary, Symbolic and Real

Intersubjectivity

Knowledge Constitutive Interests

Lifeworld

Mirror Stage and the Ego

New Social Movements

Orientalism

Patriarchy

Performativity

Power

Power/Knowledge

Public Sphere

Racism(s) and Ethnicity

Rationality

Realism

Recognition (desire and struggle for)

Relationalsim (versus Substantialism)

Repertoires of Contention

Repression (Psychoanalysis)

Sex/Gender Distinction

Social Capital

Social Class

Social Constructions/Constructionism

Social Movements

Social Space I (Bourdieu)

Social Space II (Networks)

Symbolic Power/Symbolic Violence

System and Lifeworld

Unconscious (The)

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