SOCIAL THEORY PAPERS links

 

The Future of Social Theory. 2009. The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, edited by Bryan Turner, 551-566.

 

You Say You Want a Revolution. 2006. Human Studies 29: 263-268.

 

The Maturity of Social Theory. 2004. The Dialogical Turn: New Roles for Sociology in the Postdisciplinary Age, edited by Charles Camic and Hans Joas, 141-70.

 

Social Theory without Wholes. 1984. Human Studies 7: 259-84.

Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20008920

 

Cause, the Persistence of Teleology, and the Origins of the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 2003. Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, edited by Stephen P. Turner and Paul Roth, 21-42.

 

Stephen Turner and Paul Roth. Introduction: Ghosts and the Machine: Issues of Agency, Rationality, and Scientific Methodology in Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science, 2003, in Stephen P. Turner and Paul Roth (eds.) The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 1-17.

 

The World Made by Human Studies, 2002, Human Studies 25(4): 441-45. 

Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20010299

 

Teaching Subtlety of Thought: The Lessons of Contextualism. 2001 . Argumentation 15(1): 77-95.

 

 

 

SOCIAL THEORY PAPERS WITHOUT LINKS

 

Turner, Stephen. 1998. The Limits of Social Constructionism. The Politics of Constructionism, edited by I. Velody and R. Williams. London: Sage, 109-20.

 

Turner, Stephen. 1996. Introduction: Social Theory and Sociology. In Stephen P. Turner (ed.) Social Theory and Sociology: the Classics and Beyond, Oxford: Blackwell, 1-16.

 

Turner, Stephen. 1992. The Strange Life and Hard Times of the Concept of General Theory in Sociology: A Short History of Hope. Postmodernism and Social Theory, edited by Steven Seidman and David G. Wagner. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 101-33.

 

Turner, Stephen. 1993. The End of Functionalism: Parson, Merton and Their Heirs (Review essay of Raymond Boudon and François Bourricaud, A Critical Dictionary of Sociology; Jon Clark, Celia Modgil, and Sohan Modgil (eds), Robert K. Merton: Consensus and Controversy; Bruce Wearne, The Theory and Scholarship of Talcott Parsons to 1951). Philosophy of the Social Sciences 23: 228-42.

 

Wardell, Mark and Stephen Turner. 1986. Dissolution of the Classical Project, 11-18. Stephen Turner and Mark Wardell, Epilog, 161-65. In Mark Wardell and Stephen Turner (eds.), Sociological Theory in Transition, London: Allen and Unwin.

 

Turner, Stephen. 1983. “Contextualism” and the Interpretation of the Classical Sociological Texts. Knowledge and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Culture Past and Present 4: 273-91.

 

Turner, Stephen. 1974. Structuralist and Participants View Sociologies. The American Sociologist 9: 143-46.