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By Steven Seidman

within the 6th variation of Contested Knowledge, social theorist Steven Seidman provides the most recent subject matters in social conception and addresses the present shift of 'universalist theorists' to networks of clustered debates.

  • Responds to present concerns, debates, and new social movements 
  • Reviews sociological idea from a modern perspective 
  • Reveals how the common theorist and the period of rival faculties has been changed through networks of clustered debates which are particularly 'autonomous' and interdisciplinary 
  • Features updates and in-depth discussions of the latest clustered debates in social theory—intimacy, postcolonial nationalism, and the concept that of 'the other' 
  • Challenges social scientists to resume their dedication to the real ethical and political function social wisdom performs in public life 

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