Ebook: Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory

If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michel Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the questino of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and Slavoj Zizek. The Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory offers a concise, comprehensive overview of the convergences and divergences of social and cultural theory, and in so doing offers a novel agenda for social and cultural research in the twenty-first century.;Part I: Contemporary Social Theory -- 1. The Trajectories of Social and Cultural Theory / Anthony Elliott -- 2. Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School / Jordan Mckenzie -- 3. Structuralism and Post-Structuralism / Sam Han -- 4. Structuration Theories : Giddens and Bordieu / Anthony Elliott -- 5. Feminist and Post-Feminist Social Theories / Ann Branaman -- 6. Zygmunt Bauman and Social Theory / Keith Tester -- 7. Ideology and Social and Cultural Theory / John Cash -- 8. Psychoanalytic Social Theory / Anthony Elliott -- 9. Social Theories of Risk / Patrick Brown -- 10. Networks / Thomas Birtchnell -- 11. Globalization / Eric Hsu -- Part II: Contemporary Cultural Theory -- 12. Cultural and Social Things : Is There a Difference? / Charles Lemert -- 13. British Cultural Theory / Nick Stevenson -- 14. American Cultural Theory / Sam Han -- 15. Queer Theory / Max Kirsch -- 16. Social and Cultural Theory and Literature / Jennifer Rutherford and David Crouch -- 17. Race/Ethnicity and Social and Cultural Theory / Anthony Moran -- 18. Media and Culture / Nick Stevenson -- 19. The Place of Space in Social and Cultural Theory / Simon Susen -- 20. Reading and Reception / David Crouch and Jennifer Rutherford -- 21. Performance and Performativity / Rita Horanyi.