Ebook Download | The Routledge Companion to Social Theory (Routledge Companions) | The series of Routledge Companions are some of the most consistently useful that I've found, and this new volume on Social Theory is no exception. As part of my graduate work, I just took a comprehensive survey class covering social theory from Boas to Foucault and beyond. Having just taken the class, I was anxious to see how well this volume could summarize the thousands of pages of reading I did over the semester.
My hope was that it would give me just enough information on main theories and ideas so that if I needed to refresh my memory of a given idea or theorist at some point in the future, I would be able to do so quickly and easily. For example, I've not had much use for Bourdieu in my own work, but he comes up frequently in articles that I read and I know that at some point, the ideas behind, say, the 'habitus' are not going to be fresh in my mind. Just as I had hoped, the Routledge Companion to Social Theory has me covered; they give just enough information to aid one's understanding, but not so much as to be overwhelming. In short, I see this volume as coming in very handy down the road.
If you're brand new to social theory, this could be a good place to start. While there is no substitute to reading the canonical texts of the field, it can be intimidating to jump right in, especially if you don't have any background. This book will provide the necessary background to approach the more difficult readings by the theorists themselves. In sum, I highly recommend this to anyone wishing to access a handy reference book for what is the diverse and ever-changing field of social theory.
My hope was that it would give me just enough information on main theories and ideas so that if I needed to refresh my memory of a given idea or theorist at some point in the future, I would be able to do so quickly and easily. For example, I've not had much use for Bourdieu in my own work, but he comes up frequently in articles that I read and I know that at some point, the ideas behind, say, the 'habitus' are not going to be fresh in my mind. Just as I had hoped, the Routledge Companion to Social Theory has me covered; they give just enough information to aid one's understanding, but not so much as to be overwhelming. In short, I see this volume as coming in very handy down the road.
If you're brand new to social theory, this could be a good place to start. While there is no substitute to reading the canonical texts of the field, it can be intimidating to jump right in, especially if you don't have any background. This book will provide the necessary background to approach the more difficult readings by the theorists themselves. In sum, I highly recommend this to anyone wishing to access a handy reference book for what is the diverse and ever-changing field of social theory.
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