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A Beginner's Guide to Social Theory Shaun Best
A Beginner's Guide to Social Theory
Shaun Best
Best offers a comprehensive overview of social theory from classical sociology to the present day. The reader is guided through the work of Durkheim, Marx and Weber and contemporary thinkers like Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Gilles Deluze, Manuel Castells, Luce Irigary, Naomi Woolf and Camille Paglia.
280 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 29, 2002 |
| ISBN13 | 9780761965329 |
| Publishers | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Pages | 280 |
| Dimensions | 170 × 242 × 21 mm · 620 g |
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