Overview

This accessible text introduces social theory as a set of flexible and practical concepts that can be used to reflect on and make sense of social behaviour. It encourages readers to critically assess social explanations and to construct their own as active theorists in their own right. Drawing on examples chosen to appeal to a wide, international student readership, it offers a straightforward, practical and student-centred approach to theory, avoiding the heavy emphasis on individual theorists and the often difficult language of many existing texts.

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'It is concise, clearly written, well structured and accessible; examples are many, telling and well chosen...In short, this book offers an excellent, exemplary (as opposed to encyclopedic) introduction to sociology and anthropology.' - Steven Van Wolputte, Social Anthropology

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JOHN PARKER is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Wales, Swansea. His research and teaching concentrates on the historical sociology of culture and social theory. He has recently published Structuration (Open University Press). - LEONARD MARS is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is author of Village and the State: Administration, Ethnicity and Politics in an Israeli Co-operative Village (Gower 1980) and is currently researching the revival of Jewish identity in post-communist Hungary. - PAUL RANSOME is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Wales, Swansea. His teaching interests are primarily in social theory and the sociology of work. His publications include Antonio Gramsci: A New Introduction (Harvester 1992) and Sociology and the Future of Work (Ashgate 1999). - HILARY STANWORTH is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Wales, Swansea. Her interests include class and stratification, urban sociology and race relations, and she is currently researching changes in Swedish culture, orientations to the natural environment and the symbolism of identity. -

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