Social Theory, 6th Edition

Charles Lemert is University Professor and Andrus Professor of Social Theory Emeritus at Wesleyan University and Senior Fellow of the centre for Comparative Research at Yale University. He is the author and editor of many books, most recently Globalization: An Introduction to the End of the Known World.

Preface/2016 Edition -- Introduction—Social Theory: Its Uses and Pleasures -- Modernity’s Classical Age: 1848–1919 -- The Two Sides of Society -- Split Lives in the Modern World -- Social Theories and World Conflict: 1919–1945 -- Action and Knowledge in a Troubled World -- Unavoidable Dilemmas -- The Golden Moment: 1945–1963 -- The Golden Age -- Doubts and Reservations -- Others Object -- Will the Center Hold? 1963–1979 -- Experiments at Renewal and Reconstruction -- Breaking with Modernity -- After Modernity: 1979–2001 -- The Idea of the Postmodern and Its Critics -- Reactions and Alternatives -- New Cultural Theories after Modernity -- Global Realities in an Uncertain Century -- Global Uncertainties -- Rethinking the Past that Haunts the Future -- Social Theory at the Limits of the Social -- Notes to Accompany “The New Mestiza” (Gloria Anzaldúa, 1987)