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Legal Theory and Social Theory
Annual Review of Sociology, 1994While social theory and legal theory were once closely intertwined, contemporary American sociology pays scant attention to recent developments in legal theory. But the problems that legal theory currently wrestles with are very similar to those with which sociology is now centrally concerned.
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Social Theory and the Family (RLE Social Theory)
2014An experienced teacher of courses on the sociology of the family, D.H.J. Morgan frequently encounters a gulf between ‘the family’ as it is often treated in sociological texts and ‘the family’ as it is usually experienced. In this book he provides an extremely valuable bridge between the two by presenting an encounter between some of the mainstream ...
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Social theory and social policy:
2017In this chapter, Robert Pinker discusses the complex relationship between social theory and social policy in democratic societies, focusing on the work of the philosophers Hilary Putnam and Karl Popper. Pinker first considers the distinction between scientific theory, normative theory and ideology and whether it is possible — or desirable — to design ...
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The social construction of social work theory
1991This is the starting point: at this moment, somewhere in the world, ‘clients’ are struggling into an office to meet with a ‘social worker’. Or perhaps the social worker is visiting the client’s home, or is working with clients in groups, in residential or day-care settings, or in some form of community work.
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Towards a theory of transformative social innovation: A relational framework and 12 propositions
Research Policy, 2020Bonno Pel +2 more
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Social exchange theory: Systematic review and future directions
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023Rehan Ahmad +2 more
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