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Suggests ways a sociological perspective can contribute to imaging a queer studies that preserves the critical spirit of queer theory while being attentive to the deeply institutional and structural dynamics in the formation of the sexual self and social order. This book points towards a different sociological queer studies.

This text surveys the origins, fortunes and prospects of critical social theory, this most influential of theoretical approaches. It covers the early Frankfurt School to Habermas, contemporary debates over postmodernism, feminism and nationalism.

Symbolic interactionism is one of the most enduring of all social psychologies. This work traces its tortured history from its roots in American pragmatism to its present-day encounter with poststructuralism and postmodernism.