Social Theory: The Multicultural, Global, and Classic Readings Paperback - 2016 - 6th Edition

From the rear cover

For nearly a quarter-century, Charles Lemert has shared his love of social theory, and the questions it explores, in this collection of readings. With 140 selections that begin in the nineteenth century and end in 2015, "Social Theory" charts the long arc of the development of the field. This edition retains classic texts by Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and W.E.B. Du Bois and writings of major contemporary figures like Audre Lorde and Patricia Hill Collins, while adding pieces from Harriet Martineau, Friedrich Nietzsche, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, Thomas Piketty, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, among others. Revised and updated with a new section exploring social theory at the limits of the social, Lemert s "Social Theory" remains essential reading.
Charles Lemert is University Professor and Andrus Professor of Social Theory Emeritus at Wesleyan University and Senior Fellow of the Center 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." 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"