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Wolff reviews 'Contemporary Economic Theory' edited by Andriana Vlachou.

Introducing readers to the most important thinkers and schools of thought in contemporary sociological theory - from Parsons and Merton to the Frankfurt School to Foucault, Bourdieu, Giddens and Hochschild - this accessible textbook firmly locates key ideas in social, political and historical context. By doing so, it helps students understand the development of central sociological concepts and how they can help us understand the contemporary world. The book includes: Lively biographical sections to help readers get to know each thinker Clear and easy-to-understand accounts of each theorist's arguments - and the most common criticismsKey concept boxes highlighting the most influential ideas This comprehensive textbook brings the diverse field of contemporary sociological theory to life. Essential reading for all students in Sociology and Sociological Theory.

Society as a system of subsystems -- Manifest and latent functions : the Matthew effect -- An automated utopia : systems theory -- From functionalism to structuralism -- Constructivist structuralism : habitus -- The analysis of socially constructed reality -- Interactionism -- Dramaturgy -- Ethnomethodology -- The information society -- A new modernity -- Individuals as the basis of social actions -- The theory of communicative action -- The dialogic turn in the social sciences

During the twentieth century, the medium of film has developed as a means of understanding the complexity of modern life. Since 1968, film theory has concentrated not so much on theme or content but on the deeper question of how the medium works on its viewer. Film theory has been profoundly influenced by the writings of such modern thinkers as Saussure, Freud, Lacan, Anthusser, Derrida and Kristeva. It combines modes of textual analysis relating to linguistics and semiology, a Marxist reading of ideology, and theories of subjectivity, the spectator and gender redefined by psychoanalysis.>

"In this paper I want to deal with three topics: first, with the development and the ups and downs of modernization theory and its treatment of the non-Western world (I), secondly, with some basic social structure distributions and trends of human development for selected societies, including Islamic countries (II), thirdly, with modernization and modernity in the non-Western world, especially in the Arab world (III). This third part is based only on my reading of some works by area specialists and specialists on Islam therefore, it barely represents more than the average layperson's current level of information today in Western Europe." (author's abstract)