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1. The New Social Theory Reader

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Steven Seidman, Jeffrey C. Alexander

   This is the first anthology to thematize the dramatic upward and downward shifts that have created the new social theory, and to present this new and exciting body of work in a thoroughly trans-disciplinary manner. In this revised second edition readers are provided with a much greater range...

   Published April 2nd 2008 by Routledge
2. The New Social Theory Reader

   Edited by Steven Seidman, Jeffrey C. Alexander

   This comprehensive reader provides students and academics with access to the writers and perspectives that are shaping some of the most exciting social thinking today, with the editors placing key figures in lively debate with each other. The first section sets out some of the main schools of...

   Published June 20th 2001 by Routledge
3. Rethinking Progress

   Movements, Forces, and Ideas at the End of the Twentieth Century

   By Jeffrey C. Alexander, Piotr Sztompka

   Rethinking Progress provides a challenging reevaluation of one of the crucial ideas of Western civilization; the notion of progress. Progress often seems to have become self-defeating, producing ecological deserts, overpopulated cities, exhausted resources, decaying cultures, and widespread...

   Published August 22nd 1990 by Routledge