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288 pp.
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ISBN-13:
9780199300808

Copyright Year:
2014

Imprint: OUP US

Critical Social Theories

Third Edition

Ben Agger

Praised for its clarity and accessibility, Critical Social Theories presents a comprehensive analysis of today's leading social and cultural theories. Author Ben Agger addresses a wealth of diverse perspectives, from feminism and cultural studies to postmodernism and critical theory. Now fully updated and revised in its third edition, the book offers a wide-ranging discussion of race, gender, and global economic dynamics; Internet culture and social media; and much more.

Readership : Suitable for students in the Critical Social Theories course.

Preface
1. The Disciplinary Positioning of Theory
2. The Politics of Grand Narratives I: Theorizing Postmodernity
3. The Politics of Grand Narratives II: From Derrida to Difference Theory
4. The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School
5. Feminist Theory
6. Cultural Studies
7. Critiques of Critical Social Theory
8. Critical Social Theory: Applications and Implications
9. The 1960s at Forty: Renewing Public Sociology in the Twenty-First Century
10. De-Rationalization, Regression and the Challenges to Social Theory

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Ben Agger is Professor of Sociology and Humanities and Director of the Center for Theory at the University of Texas at Arlington. Among his recent books are Texting Toward Utopia: Kids, Writing, and Resistance (2013), Oversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age (2012), and Body Problems: Running and Living Long in a Fast-Food Society (2010).

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Special Features

Presents complex critical social theory with clarity and accessibility.
Weaves critical lenses of class, race, and gender throughout the text.
Addresses the need for both empirical application and Public Sociology in an increasingly globalized world.

New to this Edition

Addresses changes to social theories brought about by the Internet, discussed within the context of globalization.
Analyzes what has increasingly become a "media culture," in which pulp publications such as newspapers and books are being replaced by television, movies, and the Internet.
Examines Internet-based social movements like the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street.
Updates references to scholarly literature, including material published in the past several years.