Profiles

In the spirit of contemporary social networking sites, we have designed individual “profiles” for each theorist (e.g., Weber) or school of thought (e.g., the Frankfurt School). These pages include a wealth of information ranging from biographical details and key concepts to external web content. We also introduce readers to thoughts on why, no matter how old the text, each of the authors in Social Theory Re-Wired still matters today.

Anthony Giddens

Late modernity
Reflexivity
Runaway world
Structuration

Pathway to Meltdown

Critical Race and Postcolonial Theory

Black skin white masks
Double-consciousness
Orientalism
Racial formations

Shifting the Paradigm

Émile Durkheim

Anomie
Sacred and Profane
Social Solidarity
Suicide

Emergence Through Convergence

Feminist Social Theory

Black feminist epistemology
Intersectionality
Standpoint theory
Woman as Other

Shifting the Paradigm

Georg Simmel

Social forms
The metropolis
The stranger
Tragedy of culture

Rise of the Avatar

George Herbert Mead

Generalised other
Pragmatism
The self

Rise of the Avatar

Globalization

Network society
Time-space compression
World-systems

Networks of Capital

Karl Marx

Capital
Commodity
Historical materialism
Labour theory of value

Networks of Capital

Max Weber

Disenchantment
Domination
Ideal-types
Verstehen

Pathway to Meltdown

Michel Foucault

Discourse
Panopticon
Power/knowledge
Scientas sexualis

Rise of the Avatar

Mid Twentieth Century American Theory

Dramaturgy
Ethnomethodology
Phenomenology
Structural-functionalism

Emergence Through Convergence

Pierre Bourdieu

Cultural Capital
Fields
Habitus
Social reproduction

Networks of Capital

The Frankfurt School

Critical Theory
One-dimensional man
Rational society

Pathway to Meltdown

Zygmunt Bauman

Liquid modernity
Modernity and the Holocaust
Pilgrim/tourist

Rise of the Avatar

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