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  title info:
    title: Restless ideas
    sub title: contemporary social theory in an anxious age
  name:
    name part: Simmons, Anthony M. (Anthony Michael)
    name part: 1945-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nsc
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 580 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Restless Ideas is a lively new textbook of contemporary social theory that speaks directly to the anxious age in which we live today. In addition to providing a highly readable guided tour of major social theories from the mid-20th to the early 21st century, this book is full of dynamic examples that show how these theories may be used to deepen our understanding of current events and of our own life experiences. The emergence of demagogic political leaders like Donald Trump in the United States, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey, the rise of religious fundamentalism, terrorism and political populism, the digital echo-chamber of social media and the underlying causes of Brexit are only some of the many current social issues that can be framed through contemporary social theories. Similarly, the politics of sexual, racial and ethnic minorities can be analyzed through the prism of theoretical perspectives such as queer theory, standpoint and intersectional theory, postcolonial theory and critical race theory, while the ongoing struggles for gender equality and gender justice can usefully be examined through the generational perspectives of feminist theories. This book sets the stage with a critical discussion of the loaded history of the social theory canon and makes the argument that there has never been a better time than the present to broaden our understanding of our shared global heritage of social theory, to include some of the formerly excluded classics of past social thinkers, and to open the doors to current social thinkers theorizing from the margins. The book traces the modern roots of contemporary social theory back to the works of the early structural functionalists, systems theorists, conflict theorists, symbolic interactionists, ethnomethodologists and sociobiologists, building on and at times inverting the canon with the critical advancements to social theory. Later chapters focus on the current influence of structur…
  note: Tony Simmons.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Social history
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  classification: H61 .S56 2020
  classification: 300.1
  identifier: 1773630954
  identifier: 9781773630953
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 190517
    record change date: 20201021155933.0
    record identifier: in00004174486
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng