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Contested knowledge : social theory in the postmodern era

Title
Contested knowledge : social theory in the postmodern era / Steven Seidman.
Author
Seidman, Steven
Publication
Oxford [England] ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1994.

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Description
x, 361 pages; 25 cm
Subject
  • Sociology > Methodology
  • Postmodernism > Social aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 1557865078 (acid-free paper)
  • 1557865086 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
93042087
OCLC
  • 29429338
  • ocm29429338
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries