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Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory: 2nd Edition

I: Contemporary Social Theory The Trajectories of Social and Cultural Theory Human agency, social structure and cultural forms The horizons of social theory: self, society and solidarity The circuits of cultural theory: codes, close reading and cultural studies The Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory Notes References Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School Historical and intellectual development Major claims of the field and its key contributors Horkheimer: reason and enlightenment Adorno: aesthetics and the culture industry Marcuse: one-dimensional man and the unconscious Habermas: reason, truth and discourse Principal contributions to the topic Autonomy Conflict Knowledge Main criticisms Cultural dopes and the role of creativity Elitism in Adorno's culture of industry thesis The intractability of Habermas's discourse ethics Why the area is still important and the future of critical theory Conclusion Notes References Structuralism and Post-Structuralism Introduction The historical and intellectual development of structuralism Major claims and developments of structuralism and post-structuralism The contributions of structuralisms Main criticisms of structuralism and post-structuralism Lasting importance and future developments of structuralism and post-structuralism Note References Structuration Theories: Giddens and Bourdieu Historical and intellectual development Key contributors and criticisms The social theory of Anthony Ciddens Giddens's theory of structuration Modernity reappraised: structuration in action Politics, the Third Way and the digital revolution Criticisms of Giddens's theory of structuration Pierre Bourdieu: habitus and practical social life Cultural capital and symbolic violence Criticism of Bourdieu Future developments References Feminist and Post-Feminist Theories Historical context Key contributions and criticisms Liberal psychology and the advocacy of 'androgyny'Radical feminist perspectives on sex and gender Marxist-socialist feminism Psychoanalytic feminist theories of the construction of gendered subjectivity Intersectional, postcolonial and global feminisms Post-structural and postmodern feminist theory Future directions References Zygmunt Bauman and Social Theory Introduction Historical and intellectual development Major claims Principal contributions Main criticisms Importance and future development References Ideology and Social and Cultural Theory Introduction and historical overview Major developments and contributors Karl Marx (and Friedrich Engels)The Frankfurt School Erich Fromm and the satisfactions of ideology Theodor Adorno and the eclipse of the individual Jürgen Habermas and ideology as systematically distorted communication Louis Althusser and ideology as interpellation and misrecognition Slavoj Zizek, enjoyment and depoliticization Future directions References Psychoanalytic Social Theory Historical and intellectual development Freud, psychoanalysis and the repressed unconscious Psychoanalysis after Freud Key contributors and criticisms The Frankfurt School: domination after Freud Erich Fromm Herbert Marcuse Jacques Lacan Louis Althusser Feminism and psychoanalysis ]ulia Kristeva Psychoanalysis and postmodern theory Future developments Cornelius Castoriadis: radical and social imaginaries lean Laplanche: enigmatic significations Conclusion References Social Theories of Risk Introduction: a brief historical overview of risk theorizing Risk and uncertainty: some central themes and thinkers Mary Douglas and a cultural theory of risk Critiques of cultural approaches to risk Ulrich Beck and the risk society thesis Critiques of the risk society approach Michel Foucault, knowledge and governmentality Critiques of the governmentality approach Moving from risk towards a range of rationalities Contrasting risk logics and priorities Risk as one strategy amongst many The significance of sociological analyses of risk: future possibilities Notes References NetWorks Enmeshed in networks Historical development of the network Anatomies Societies Mobilities Metaphors of power, elements and movement Major claims and developments Capillary power Actor network theory Network capital Theorizing power, elements and movement Principal contributions Powers Elements Movements Network thinking Critical issues Technicality Dilution Conclusion: network futures References Globalization Theory Historical and intellectual development Main claims and key contributors Main criticisms Anticipated future developments Conclusion References II: Contemporary Cultural Theory Cultural and Social Things: Is there a Difference?British Cultural Theory Historical and intellectual development Matthew Arnold and the origins of British cultural studies British cultural studies after Arnold: Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams Key contributors and criticisms E. P. Thompson: culture as agency and radical history Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Stuart Hall Paul Gilroy and the postcolonial Culture as policy and citizenship: Tony Bennett Future developments Conclusion Bibliography American Cultural Theory Introduction The emergence of 'cultural theory' in America Major claims and developments of American cultural theory Contributions of American cultural studies Main criticisms of American cultural studies Lasting importance and future developments of American cultural studies Note References Queer Theory Definitional beginnings Historical and intellectual development of queer theory The contribution of gay and lesbian and identity studies to queer theory (Making) queer theory Principal contributions: theory and politics The perspective of society: queer theory, postrriodernity and late capitalism Essential criticisms and debates, contested concepts Queer theory and the building of communities The connection of queer theory to social change in the 1960s Queer theory as academic movement and subject Further developments and the growth of queer theory From collective identity politics to abstract individualism The further connection of queer theory to postmodern and post-structural analyses The possibility of future developments: reconsidering Marx and political economy Of paradoxes, theory and politics, or the future of the discussion Conclusions: queer theory, social movements and everyday life: continuing debates and criticisms Note References The New Mobilities Paradigm and Social Theory Mobilities: a new way of studying the world What are mobilities?The mobilities turn The new mobilities paradigm A mobile ontology Complex mobility systems Mobile methods Mobility politics and mobility justice Criticisms of the mobilities paradigm Case study: sovereign mobilities Conclusion: where to next for the new mobilities paradigm?References Race/ethnicity and Social and Cultural Theory Introduction: historical and intellectual development Key contributors and criticisms Race, racism, enlightenment and modernity W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fa non British contributions to the study of race and racism: race relations, Stuart Hall, CCCS and Paul Gilroy Cultural racism and whiteness The ethnic revival and theorizing ethnicity Future developments Conclusion References Media and Cultural Identity Historical and intellectual development Major claims and development: Benjamin, Brecht and Adorno Habermas and Williams Main criticisms Future developments: democracy, media and civic culture References The Place of Space in Social and Cultural Theory Introduction Historical and intellectual development The concept of space in classical sociology Lefebvre's contributions: outline of a general theory of social space The humanity of social space The sociality of social space The constructability of social space The economy of social space The ideology of social space The relationality of social space The structurally of social space The visibility of social space The rationality of social space The universality of social space The historicity of social space The complexity of social space The polycentricity of social space The interpenetrability of social space The separability of social space The commodifiability of social space The controllability of social space The usability of social space The contestability of social space The transformability of social space Main criticisms and limitations Recent and possible future developments Conclusion Acknowledgement Note References Posthumanism Intellectual development and key contributors Key criticisms and future developments Conclusion References

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