Title:	Social Theory at Work
Authors:	Marek, Korczynski Randy, Hodson Paul K. Edwards
Keywords:	Social Theory at Work
Issue Date:	2006
Publisher:	Oxford
Description:	The first main section of the book, Chapters 2–11, is made up of chapters giving overviews of the main social and economic theoretical traditions and their application to the analysis of work. The traditional ‘founding fathers’, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim are covered first, before more recent approaches of feminism and Foucault and postmodernism are considered. Next, two important economics schools are considered—the neoclassical school and the institutional economics tradition. This main section is completed by chapters on economic sociology, organizational sociology and ethics-based approaches to the analysis of work. The second section is made up of chapters focusing on technology and work, professions, globalization and work, and identity and work. In this section, we see how far 5 Introduction important substantive issues have been advanced by social theories, and also see how far these advances have been based on some de facto integration between social theories. Whereas chapters in the first section generally examine specific social theories in isolation from each other, those in the second section allow us to begin to look for connections between social theories. The section below takes further the idea of the comparative analysis of social theories’ approaches to work
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/5029
ISBN:	978-0-19-928598-3
Appears in Collections:	Social Work

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