Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today

Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today

In the sixth edition of <i>Contested Knowledge,</i> social theorist Steven Seidman presents the latest topics in social theory and addresses the current shift of 'universalist theorists' to networks of clustered debates.<br /> <ul> <li>Responds to current issues, debates, and new social movements </li> <li>Reviews sociological theory from a contemporary perspective </li> <li>Reveals how the universal theorist and the era of rival schools has been replaced by networks of clustered debates that are relatively 'autonomous' and interdisciplinary </li> <li>Features updates and in-depth discussions of the newest clustered debates in social theory—intimacy, postcolonial nationalism, and the concept of 'the other' </li> <li>Challenges social scientists to renew their commitment to the important moral and political role social knowledge plays in public life </li> </ul>