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Modern Social Theory
Modern Social Theory An Introduction Edited by Austin Harrington OXFORD VNTVBRSTTY PRESS Intrc -'--don. What is Social Theory ? Austin Harn'ngton fOClCS DISCUSSED IN THIS INTIIODUCTION The rn~anirlg d 'the6y' ~andsaialsdenoe Mehddmedroddogyinsodalmeatch faid thea~yand'rommonse~e* 'Fads', '-,, 4 'W ~thewyandather~afthewy ~*~poMkalthcory ~W~psydsloglr Wtheayandthc~ Condusibn QUESflOllS FOR DIXWYOII GUrtIUl IWllnlR REAllnG Ik MCIA~THEORV SOURCES HUTHE PUBLIC MEMA WB5 IES bdal Wry can be defined as the study of sdenWc ways ofthinldng about sodal Uk. It -- aKompasses ideas about how societies change and develop, abut methods of explain- 9 Social behavlour, about power and sod structure, class, gender andethnldty. modernity and 'dvlliratlon', revolutl~and utopias, and numerous other concepts and probierns in soda1 life. This Introduction addresses some of the leadhg questlorn t?
The meaning of 'theory' As a term of art, kocial theory' is a distinctly recent Invention.No such term exists In English or in any other language before the twentieth centuryI and even io the twentieth century it is not common before about the 1940s.Auguste *Comte coined the term sucioI0- gie in France in the 1840s, but 'sociology' too did not gain widespread currency as a term
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