
Welcome to Social Theory
Tom Brock(Author)
SAGE Publications Ltd (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 3. April 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-5297-3261-0 (ISBN)
Description
Welcome to Social Theory is exactly what students want: a lucid and engaging introduction to social theory that carefully uses images, examples and quotations to illustrate new ways of examining contemporary social life. Tom Brock's comprehensive and accessible style produces an indispensable guide to social theory that examines the major theoretical traditions from Marxism through to poststructuralism, and from feminism through to postcolonial theory, new materialism and posthumanism. Welcome to Social Theory gives careful appraisal of classical ideas and debates in social theory and traces their impact through discussion of major contemporary theorists - including Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, Margaret Archer, Judith Butler, bell hooks, Kimberle Crenshaw, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze and Rosi Braidotti.
Social theory matters and this book shows why through relevant and compelling examples, including the gig economy, everyday sexism, digital black feminism, animal and environmental activism, stigma and discrimination against migrants, the need to decolonise the sociology curriculum and many more.
Welcome to Social theory is an indispensable text for undergraduate students who are new to social theory.
Dr. Tom Brock is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Social theory matters and this book shows why through relevant and compelling examples, including the gig economy, everyday sexism, digital black feminism, animal and environmental activism, stigma and discrimination against migrants, the need to decolonise the sociology curriculum and many more.
Welcome to Social theory is an indispensable text for undergraduate students who are new to social theory.
Dr. Tom Brock is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Reviews / Votes
Elegantly written, ambitious in scope and meticulously clear in its exposition, Brock's Welcome to Social Theory provides an engaging introduction to key currents in social thought that will prove indispensable to both newcomers and more established readers in this field. -- Jason Hughes The author has extensive experience teaching sociological theory to students new to the field. -- Matthew David * Editorial * This book does what more social theory books should do: it combines a clear and unfussy prose style with carefully selected graphic representations and images of key concepts and ideas. As such, it enables complex ideas to be made clear in ways that words alone often fail to do. I enjoyed very much reading about and 'looking' at the conceptual ideas this book sets forth' -- Christopher Thorpe * Editorial *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5297-3261-0 (9781529732610)
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Tom Brock is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He received his PhD and MA from the University of Durham. Tom teaches on a range of social theory and digital sociology courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research interests include games, play, digital consumption and social theory. Tom has published articles relevant in game studies and the sociology of consumption, such as 'Is Computer Gaming a Craft? Prehension, Practice and Puzzle-Solving in Gaming Labour', 'Video gaming as Craft Consumption', and 'Videogame Consumption: The Apophatic Dimension'.
Content
Introduction
Marx and Marxism
Nietzsche, Freud And Weber
Durkheim And Functionalism
Phenomenology And Symbolic Interactions
Language, Discourse And Postmodernity
Structure, Agency And Reflexivity
Feminism And Intersectionality
Postcolonial Theory
New Materialism And Posthumanism
Marx and Marxism
Nietzsche, Freud And Weber
Durkheim And Functionalism
Phenomenology And Symbolic Interactions
Language, Discourse And Postmodernity
Structure, Agency And Reflexivity
Feminism And Intersectionality
Postcolonial Theory
New Materialism And Posthumanism