In this book Anthony Giddens addresses a range of issues concerning current developments in social theory, relating them to the prospects for sociology in the closing decades of the twentieth century. Composed of closely integrated papers, all written over the past few years, the book includes seven essays not previously published, plus two have not appeared in English before....(展开全部)

Offering a fascinating survey of Norbert Elias's life and writings, Dennis Smith traces the growth of his reputation. He is the first author to confront Elias's work with the contrasting theories of Talcott Parsons, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and Zygmunt Bauman. He also illustrates how Elias's insights can be applied to understand Western modernity and social and political ...(展开全部)

Offering a fascinating survey of Norbert Elias's life and writings, Dennis Smith traces the growth of his reputation. He is the first author to confront Elias's work with the contrasting theories of Talcott Parsons, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and Zygmunt Bauman. He also illustrates how Elias's insights can be applied to understand Western modernity and social and political ...(展开全部)

Reclaiming Social Work is a thought-provoking and innovative book which examines how social work's commitment to social justice has been deepened and enriched by its contact with wider social movements. It explores the tensions between social work values and a market-driven agenda, and locates new resources of hope for the social work profession in the developing resistance to ...(展开全部)

Created to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Bailey and Brake's seminal text Radical Social Work (1975), this volume seeks to explore the radical tradition within social work and assess its legacy, relevance and prospects.With a foreword by Roy Bailey, the book brings together leading academics within social work in Britain to reflect on the legacy of Radical Social Work (both ...(展开全部)

罗伯特•K.默顿（1910—2003）美国著名社会学家、科学社会学奠基人、结构功能主义流派代表人物之一，出生于费城，1931年获坦普尔大学学士学位，随后进入哈佛大学，师从社会学名家索罗金、帕森斯及科学史家萨顿，1936年获得社会学博士学位，先后在哈佛大学、图兰大学和哥伦比亚大学任教，曾任美国社会学学会主席（1956—1957），并当选美国科学院院士，代表著作有《十七世纪英国的科学、技术与社会》（1938/1970）、《大众信念》（1946）、《社会理论和社会结构》（1949/1968）、《在巨人的肩膀上》（1965）、《论理论社会学》（1967）、《科学社会学》（1973）、《社会学的矛盾选择及其他文集》（1976）、《科学社会学散忆》（1979）、《社会研究与从事专门职业》（1982）等。