Theoretical Topics

Sociological theory of social action and social structure
  1. Talcott Parsons
  2. Jurgen Habermas
  3. Pierre Bourdieu
  4. Anthony Giddens
  5. James Samuel Coleman
  6. Berger and Luckmann
  7. Bruno Latour

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sociological concepts of modernity – Early, Late/Reflexive and post-modernity
  1. Max Weber
  2. Frankfurt School
  3. Zygmunt Bauman
  4. Ulrich Beck
  5. Anthony Giddens
  6. Bruno Latour

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Communication, Discourse and Symbolic Power: Society as a Communicative Reality
  1. Jurgen Habermas
  2. George Herbert Mead
  3. Michael Foucault
  4. Niklas Luhmann
  5. Paul Felix Lazarsfeld

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Inter-subjectivity and the interaction order in society
  1. Georg Herbert Mead
  2. Erwin Goffman
  3. Harold Garfinkel
  4. Alfred Schutz
  5. Arlie Russel Hochschild

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Globalization and Neoliberalism
  1. Ronald Robertson
  2. Saskia Sassen
  3. Immanuel Wallerstein
  4. Wolfgang Streeck
  5. David Harvey
  6. Luc Boltanski
  7. Colin Crouch

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Multiculturalism, Post-colonialism/neo-colonialism/decolonization, feminism and technology
  1. Donna Haraway – Situated knowledges, Cyborg, Cyborg feminism, Chthulucene
  2. Judith Butler – Gender performativity, Queer theory, Deconstruction of identity categories
  3. Seyla Benhabib – Postmodernism, Feminism, Cosmopolitanism
  4. Nancy Fraser – Justice, recognition and redistribution, Capitalism and neoliberalism, Feminist theory and the feminist movement
  5. Charles Taylor – Philosophy, Political theory, Cultural studies
  6. Raewyn Connell – Gender, Power, Challenges and solutions, Pedagogy  
  7. Edward Said – Orientalism, Postcolonial theory, Political activism

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