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The Polity Reader in Social Theory. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994.
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Table of contents
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| Acknowledgements | x |
| Introduction | 1 |
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| Part I Some Schools of Social Theory: Marx and Weber to Gadamer and Ricoeur
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| 1. Capitalism and Socialism: Weber's Dialogue with Marx | 14 |
| Wolfgang J. Mommsen |
| 2. Georg Simmel: Modernity as an Eternal Present | 23 |
| David Frisby |
| 3. The Social and Political Thought of Antonio Gramsci | 32 |
| Richard Bellamy |
| 4. The World in a Text: Levi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques | 38 |
| Clifford Geertz |
| 5. Althusser and the Problem of Determinations | 44 |
| Michele Barrett |
| 6. Gadamer and Ricoeur on Hermeneutics | 49 |
| Susan Hekman |
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| Part II Solidarity, Interaction and Social Practice | 55 |
| 7. What is Ethnomethodology? | 62 |
| Harold Garfinkel |
| 8. Erving Goffman on Ritual and Solidarity in Social Life | 71 |
| Randall Collins |
| 9. Elements of the Theory of Structuration | 79 |
| Anthony Giddens |
| 10. Institutional Reflexivity and Modernity | 89 |
| Anthony Giddens |
| 11. Structures, Habitus and Practices | 95 |
| Pierre Bourdieu |
| 12. Social Space and Symbolic Power | 111 |
| Pierre Bourdieu |
| 13. Rational Choice Theory | 121 |
| Jon Elster |
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| Part III Critical Theory of Modernity | 127 |
| 14. Ideology and Modern Culture | 133 |
| John Thompson |
| 15. The Tasks of a Critical Theory | 142 |
| Jiirgen Habermas |
| 16. The Normative Content of Modernity | 150 |
| Jiirgen Habermas |
| 17. Habermas and Lyotard | 160 |
| Richard Rorty |
| 18. Foucault and Marxism | 172 |
| Mark Poster |
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| Part IV Feminism, Gender and Subjectivity | 181 |
| 19. Foucault, Feminism and the Body | 188 |
| Lots McNay |
| 20. The Case of Habermas and Gender | 201 |
| Nancy Fraser |
| 21. Feminism and Modernism | 213 |
| Janet Wolff |
| 22. Post-postmodernism? Theorizing Gender | 225 |
| Sylvia Walby |
| 23. Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory | 237 |
| Nancy Chodorow |
| 24. Death of the Subject? | 247 |
| Agnes Heller |
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| Part V Modernity, Democracy, Social Movements | 259 |
| 25. The End of Organized Capitalism | 267 |
| Scott Lash and John Urry |
| 26. World-systems Analysis | 276 |
| Immanuel Wallerstein |
| 27. Surveillance and Modernity | 287 |
| Christopher Dandeker |
| 28. The Future of Democracy | 295 |
| Norberto Bobbio |
| 29. What Should Democracy Mean Today? | 304 |
| David Held |
| 30. Democracy: From City-states to a Cosmopolitan Order? | 313 |
| David Held |
| 31. Class, Environmental and Social Movements | 321 |
| Boris Frankel |
| 32. Ecological Communication | 326 |
| Niklas Luhmann |
| 33. The Green Political Programme | 332 |
| Robert Goodin |
| 34. The Naturalistic Fallacy of the Ecological Movement | 342 |
| Ulrich Beck |
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| Part VI Modernity and Postmodernity | 347 |
| 35. Modernity and Ambivalence | 351 |
| Zygmunt Bauman |
| 36. The Consumer Society | 362 |
| Jean Baudrillard |
| 37. The Postmodern: A Transparent Society? | 367 |
| Gianni Vattimo |
| 38. Against Postmodernism | 373
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| Alex Callinicos |
| 39. Modernity and the Holocaust | 387 |
| Zygmunt Bauman |
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| Index | 394 |
