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Drawing on first-generation critical theory of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse and second-generation critical theory of Habermas, Agger argues for the priority of critical theory over the antitotality perspectives of postmodernism and feminism.

(Paperback, Second Edition)

Examines the discourse of mainstream journal articles in sociology in order to understand the essentially conservative nature of mainstream sociology. This work develops a non-positivist version of sociological writing that is accessible and relevant to social problems.

(Paperback)

On April 16, 2007, a Virginia Tech student killed 32 of his classmates and professors and then turned the gun on himself. The media focused their power and our attention on the campus, the students and faculty of Virginia Tech, and the gunman and his victims. But we have yet t...