Social Theory Its Origins, History, and Contemporary Relevance

Social Theory: Its Origins, History, and Contemporary Relevance analyzes the tradition of social theory in terms of its origins and changes in kind of societies. Rossides provides a full discussion of the sociohistorical environments that generated Western social theory with a focus on the contemporary modern world. While employing a sociology of knowledge approach that identifies theories as aristocratic versus democratic, liberal versus socialist and also liberal feminist versus radical feminist; it attempts to construct a scientific, unified social theory in the West.Daniel W. Rossides is the author of 'Social Theory Its Origins, History, and Contemporary Relevance', published 1998 under ISBN 9781882289509 and ISBN 1882289501.