Austin Harrington is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds. He has published three books: Art and Social Theory: Sociological Arguments in Aesthetics, Polity Press, 2004; Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science: A Critique of Gadamer and Habermas, Routledge, 2001 and The Protestant Ethic Debate: Max Weber's Replies to his Critics, 1907-1910, Liverpool University Press, 2001, edited with D. Chalcraft.

• Introduction: What is Social Theory? ; 1. Classical Social Theory, I: Contexts and Beginnings ; 2. Classical Social Theory, II: Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim ; 3. Classical Social Theory, III: Max Weber and Georg Simmel ; 4. Functionalism and its Critics ; 5. Interpretivism and Interactionism ; 6. Historical Social Theory ; 7. Western Marxism ; 8. Psychoanalytic Social Theory ; 9. Structuralism and Post-Structuralism ; 10. Structure and Agency ; 11. Feminist Social Theory ; 12. Modernity and Postmodernity: Part I ; 13. Modernity and Postmodernity: Part II ; 14. Globalization ; Conclusion: Social Theory for the Twenty-First Century

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Austin Harrington is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds. He has published three books: Art and Social Theory: Sociological Arguments in Aesthetics, Polity Press, 2004; Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science: A Critique of Gadamer and Habermas, Routledge, 2001 and The Protestant Ethic Debate: Max Weber's Replies to his Critics, 1907-1910, Liverpool University Press, 2001, edited with D. Chalcraft.

• Introduction: What is Social Theory? ; 1. Classical Social Theory, I: Contexts and Beginnings ; 2. Classical Social Theory, II: Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim ; 3. Classical Social Theory, III: Max Weber and Georg Simmel ; 4. Functionalism and its Critics ; 5. Interpretivism and Interactionism ; 6. Historical Social Theory ; 7. Western Marxism ; 8. Psychoanalytic Social Theory ; 9. Structuralism and Post-Structuralism ; 10. Structure and Agency ; 11. Feminist Social Theory ; 12. Modernity and Postmodernity: Part I ; 13. Modernity and Postmodernity: Part II ; 14. Globalization ; Conclusion: Social Theory for the Twenty-First Century

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Austin Harrington is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds. He has published three books: Art and Social Theory: Sociological Arguments in Aesthetics, Polity Press, 2004; Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science: A Critique of Gadamer and Habermas, Routledge, 2001 and The Protestant Ethic Debate: Max Weber's Replies to his Critics, 1907-1910, Liverpool University Press, 2001, edited with D. Chalcraft.

• Introduction: What is Social Theory? ; 1. Classical Social Theory, I: Contexts and Beginnings ; 2. Classical Social Theory, II: Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim ; 3. Classical Social Theory, III: Max Weber and Georg Simmel ; 4. Functionalism and its Critics ; 5. Interpretivism and Interactionism ; 6. Historical Social Theory ; 7. Western Marxism ; 8. Psychoanalytic Social Theory ; 9. Structuralism and Post-Structuralism ; 10. Structure and Agency ; 11. Feminist Social Theory ; 12. Modernity and Postmodernity: Part I ; 13. Modernity and Postmodernity: Part II ; 14. Globalization ; Conclusion: Social Theory for the Twenty-First Century

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