Current Perspectives in Social Theory

Editorial board. List of contributors. The Social Nature of Discourse. Books author authors, but reading writes: a social theory of the text (B. Agger). Constitution of meaning: on the practical conditions of social understanding (O. Lee). The Social Nature of Gender. The bonds of hierarchy: Anglo-American psycho-analytic feminist theory on inequality in intimate relationships (A. Branaman). Developing the gender relations perspective: the emergence of a new conceptualization of gender in the 1990s (E.J. Hall). Social Structure, Social Change and Social Theory. Two faces of collective action frames: a theoretical consideration (R.H. Williams, R.D. Benford). Barry Hindess and Paul Hirst: the origins of capitalism and the origins of post-Marxism (R. Duchesne). Emmanuel Levinas and the moral displacement of knowledge: rethinking the relation between the moral and social orders (S.J. Knapp).