Book description
In the fifth edition
Contested Knowledge,
social theorist Steven Seidman presents the latest topics in social
theory and addresses the current shift of 'universalist theorists' to
networks of clustered debates.
- Responds to current issues, debates, and new social movements
- Reviews sociological theory from a contemporary perspective
- Reveals how the universal theorist and the era of rival schools
has been replaced by networks of clustered debates that are
relatively 'autonomous' and interdisciplinary
- Features updates and in-depth discussions of the newest clustered
debates in social theory-intimacy, postcolonial nationalism, and the
concept of 'the other'
- Challenges social scientists to renew their commitment to the
important moral and political role social knowledge plays in public life
- Accompanied by a companion website for students at www. wiley.
com/go/seidman featuring chapter outlines and useful web links;
an instructor site can also be accessed which features
password-protected PowerPoint teaching slides
Steven Seidman is Professor of Sociology at State University of
New York at Albany. He is a world-renowned social theorist working in
the areas of social theory, culture, sexuality, comparative sociology,
theory of democracy, nationalism, and globalization. He is the author
and editor of several books, including Embattled Eros: Sexual
Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America (1992), The
Postmodern Turn: New Perspectives on Social Theory (editor,
1995), Queer Theory/Sociology (Blackwell, 1996), The New
Social Theory Reader: Contemporary Debates (edited with Jeffrey
C. Alexander, 2001), and Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of
Gay and Lesbian Life (2002).
