This book is accessible as a beginners guide should be but without an oversimplification of the arguments. It should prove an immensely durable text forgenerati... » 

This book is accessible as a beginners guide should be but without an oversimplification of the arguments. It should prove an immensely durable text forgenerations of students to come John Hughes Lancaster UniversityAt last a book that makes social theory for undergraduates a pleasure to teachand study. The book offers a comprehensive overview of social theory fromclassical sociology to the present day. Students are guided through the work ofDurkheim Marx and Weber functionalism action perspectives feminismpostmodernism and contemporary thinkers like Anthony Giddens Michel FoucaultJumurgen Habermas Frederic Jameson Judith Butler Gilles Deluze ManuelCastells Luce Irigary Naomi Woolf and Camille Paglia. The book presents clearaccounts of these contributions and employs an extensive range of activitiesthat encourage the reader to evaluate the work of given theorists andapproaches.The book is Comprehensive Studentfriendly Accurate UnpatronisingIt offers lecturers and students an ideal study resource for undergraduatemodules in social theory. «