Welcome to Social Theory

Welcome to Social Theory is exactly what students want: a lucid and engaging introduction to social theory that carefully uses images, examples and quotations to illustrate new ways of examining contemporary social life.

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Tom Brock is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He received his PhD and MA from the University of Durham. Tom teaches on a range of social theory and digital sociology courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research interests include games, play, digital consumption and social theory. Tom has published articles relevant in game studies and the sociology of consumption, such as 'Is Computer Gaming a Craft? Prehension, Practice and Puzzle-Solving in Gaming Labour', 'Video gaming as Craft Consumption', and 'Videogame Consumption: The Apophatic Dimension'.

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Welcome to Social Theory is exactly what students want: a lucid and engaging introduction to social theory that carefully uses images, examples and quotations to illustrate new ways of examining contemporary social life.

Inhalt

Introduction
Marx and Marxism
Nietzsche, Freud And Weber
Durkheim And Functionalism
Phenomenology And Symbolic Interactions
Language, Discourse And Postmodernity
Structure, Agency And Reflexivity
Feminism And Intersectionality
Postcolonial Theory
New Materialism And Posthumanism