Postgraduate Module Descriptor


SOCM027: Social Theory

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Inglis, D. and Thorpe, C. (ed) (2012) An Invitation to Social Theory, London: Sage

Stones, R. (ed) (2008) Key Sociological Thinkers, 2nd ed., Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Gane, N. (ed) (2004) The Future of Social Theory, New York: Continuum

Giddens, A. (1971) Capitalism and Modern Social Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Rabinow, P. and Sullivan W.M. (eds) (1979) Interpretive Social Science: a reader, Berkeley: University of California Press