Social Theory, Power and Practice

✍ Scribed by Jerry Tew

Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 244
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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. These are used to examine the dynamics of social and personal change, and to inform the development of empowering practice within the human services with those who may experience distress, abuse or exclusion.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
1 Introduction......Page 12
2 Everything in its Proper Place? Modernism and Postmodernism......Page 21
3 Exposing Conflict: Structural Approaches to Power and Inequality......Page 44
4 What’s the Story? Poststructuralism, Discourse and Narrative......Page 76
5 Hidden Depths: Reclaiming Emotionality......Page 108
6 Stepping Out: (De)constructing Identities......Page 132
7 Relations of Power......Page 163
8 Systems, Instabilities and Change......Page 188
9 Conclusions for Theory and Practice......Page 214
Bibliography......Page 218
Index......Page 238

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