Description
If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michael Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek. The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory is fully revised and updated to provide students, teachers and researchers with a comprehensive, critical guide to the major traditions of thought in social and cultural theory, as well as tracing the complex intellectual connections between these distinct but related approaches to understanding society and culture.
The Handbook, edited by acclaimed sociologist Anthony Elliott, develops a powerful argument for bringing together social and cultural theory more systematically than ever before. Key social and cultural theories, ranging from classical approaches to postmodern, psychoanalytic and post-feminist approaches, are drawn together and critically appraised. There are also new chapters on mobilities and migrations, as well as posthumanism.
The Handbook, written in a clear and direct style will appeal to a wide audience of students and scholars. The extensive references and sources will direct students to areas of further study.
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
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 Bourdieu
Anthony Elliott
5 Feminist and post-feminist 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 Theory
Eric L. 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 The New Mobilities Paradigm and Social Theory
Louis Everuss
17 Race/ethnicity and social and cultural theory
Anthony Moran
18 Media and cultural identity
Nick Stevenson
19 The place of space in social and cultural theory
Simon Susen
20 Posthumanism
Anthony Elliott
Index
