Publication

2004 - Blackwell Pub., Malden, MA, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

71,250 words, Guess

Page Count

285 pages

Identifiers

and 6 more
  • Goodreads3571526', '977997
  • LibraryThing1683406
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002152653
  • Better World Books9780631226710
  • Better World Books9780631226703
  • Open LibraryOL3576994M

Classifications

  • DDC301/.01
  • LCCHM585 .S44 2004
  • LCCHM585.S44 2004

Description

This fourth edition includes an exploration of globalization and a new section on the theories of global and world order. The author combines social analysis and moral advocacy, to demonstrate how social theory can and does - and sometimes doesn't - work within the public and political sphere. -- publisher description.

First Sentence

Eighteenth-century Europe gave rise to some remarkable social thinkers like Voltaire, Hume, Adam Ferguson, Condorcet, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Subjects

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  • Contested knowledge: social theory todayBlackwell Pub.2004-01-01
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