Modern Social Thought surveys critical Western social thought from the early years of the twentieth century to the contemporary period. Using a combined chronological and thematic structure, the text traces the emergence, evolution, and consequence of ideas expressed by recognized social and political theorists, while also reflecting on the work of poets, novelists, and visual artists, giving students important insight into the multi-disciplinary quality of social thought. The text is divided into three parts, each of which provides historical, social, political, and cultural context for the theories under discussion. Part One introduces important historical currents that occurred in the immediate post-classical period, from the First World War to the close of the Second. Part Two discusses the development of critical social thought in the early post--World War Two decades in the context of large and radical social movements of African-Americans and women, in the fear and opposition inspired by the Cold War and the threat of nuclear war, and in the context of colonial legacies. Finally, Part Three traces the development of social thought from the social movements of the 1960s, principally the New Left, women, and African-Americans, to the contemporary period, introducing structuralism, interactionism, post-modernism, third-wave feminism, and a number of sociological versions of "late" modernity. Together, these parts give students a comprehensive, engaging, and altogether accessible introduction to modern social thought."--
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