Preface/2016 Edition -- Introduction—Social Theory: Its Uses and Pleasures -- Modernity’s Classical Age: 1848–1919 -- The Two Sides of Society -- Split Lives in the Modern World -- Social Theories and World Conflict: 1919–1945 -- Action and Knowledge in a Troubled World -- Unavoidable Dilemmas -- The Golden Moment: 1945–1963 -- The Golden Age -- Doubts and Reservations -- Others Object -- Will the Center Hold? 1963–1979 -- Experiments at Renewal and Reconstruction -- Breaking with Modernity -- After Modernity: 1979–2001 -- The Idea of the Postmodern and Its Critics -- Reactions and Alternatives -- New Cultural Theories after Modernity -- Global Realities in an Uncertain Century -- Global Uncertainties -- Rethinking the Past that Haunts the Future -- Social Theory at the Limits of the Social -- Notes to Accompany “The New Mestiza” (Gloria Anzaldúa, 1987)
Charles Lemert is University Professor and Andrus Professor of Social Theory Emeritus at Wesleyan University and Senior Fellow of the centre for Comparative Research at Yale University. He is the author and editor of many books, most recently Globalization: An Introduction to the End of the Known World.
Praise for Prior Editions "A rich, highly textured, historically sweeping, and strikingly inclusive collection" --Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University "Powerful and provocative ... Social Theory is an essential guide through the complex contours of multicultural ideology and theory from the nineteenth century to the present." --Manning Marable, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Malcolm X "This collections presents a provocative wide-angle view of the history of social theory ... Well-chosen selections from the new social movements as well as the classics and recent mainstream make this a fine introduction for courses in the social sciences." --Sandra Harding, UCLA "Lemert gives shape to a sociological imagination for the twenty-first century. This is necessary reading for us all." --Patricia Clough, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center "Lemert has given ample space to those who are at the margins of or fall completely outside of what most consider social theory ... and [who] contribute to a diverse, broad, multilevel, and, in places, deep treatment of social theory and its evolution. ... Late modern and postmodern theorists are well represented, and the focuses on race, gender, and globalization make this text useful for courses far beyond the standard undergraduate one in sociological theory. This book would also be well suited to more focused courses on modernity and postmodernity or even in a cultural studies curriculum. ... Excellent." --Stephen Lippmann, Teaching Sociology "Lemert provides an illuminating introduction to the collection and introductions to each section that provide an overview of the socio-historical context and delineation of key thinkers and texts in each period. Combining important classical and contemporary material, Lemert's collection enables the student and reader to trace out the origins of the modern world to our present global and conflicted condition." --Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles
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