Recent economic and political developments in the Third World and in Communist and advanced industrial societies have challenged some of the most cherished assu

No social life is possible without order. Order being the most constituent element of society, it is not surprising that so many theories have been developed to

`This is an impressively detailed, clearly written book.... It is a book that I would like students to read′ - Clive Seale, Goldsmiths College, London Social

The authors argue in this book that social theory can usefully be conceived in terms of four broad paradigms, based upon different sets of meta-theoretical assu