Social Theory, Power and Practice explores key strands of contemporary social theory in developing an innovative framework for understanding the operation of power. This draws on structural theories of inequality and oppression and poststructural deconstructions of discourse, identity and emotion
Social Theory, Power and Practice
β Scribed by Jerry Tew (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 244
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Everything in its Proper Place? Modernism and Postmodernism....Pages 10-32
Exposing Conflict: Structural Approaches to Power and Inequality....Pages 33-64
Whatβs the Story? Poststructuralism, Discourse and Narrative....Pages 65-96
Hidden Depths: Reclaiming Emotionality....Pages 97-120
Stepping Out: (De)constructing Identities....Pages 121-151
Relations of Power....Pages 152-176
Systems, Instabilities and Change....Pages 177-202
Conclusions for Theory and Practice....Pages 203-206
Back Matter....Pages 207-233
β¦ Subjects
Social Theory; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Psychology, general; Sociology, general
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