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[edit] A New Social Theory
A new social theory: tengwang.infinet.net/index1.htm
[edit] Anon edits/vandalism?
Recently some anon has done extensive edits: some look good, but he also removed a significant part of old material. Somebody should go over it and see what needs to be restored. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 13:23, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Could the attention tag be made more specific? The article seems to perhaps suffer from a lack of referencing and some formatting problems, but otherwise seems to be a fairly accurate account of social theory defined in opposition to other areas of social studies. --Phnord 12:47, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Social Theory vs. Sociological Theory
Is there such a distinction? If so what exactly is it?
Maybe a translation stemming from the German controversy of Theorie der Gesellschaft ("theory of society", mostly used for Marxist sociology) as against gesellschaftliche Theorie ("social theory", mostly used for 'bourgeois' sociology)? -- €pa 01:28, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
The latest I heard from an academic is that sociological theory used to be what theorising withing the field of sociology used to be at the time the discipline was attempting to establish itself as a separate entity. Today, however, it is going back towards opening up to various other disciplines and, hence, the preference of using social over sociological theory. :) Kaloyan* 09:11, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
- Social theory is an inter-disciplinary field that crosses over various disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, literature studies, cultural studies, history, etc. to name a few. In contrast, sociology is a specific discipline of the social sciences. Sociological theory is still quite distinct as an area and much new theory claims to be precisley sociological rather than general social theory. Although they have similarities they exist as separate bodies of knowledge. JenLouise 06:24, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] removal of "main" template
I removed the "main" template from the social theory and hard science section as the an article called Sociology versus social theory shouldn't contain information on hard or natural sciences and therefore would not be a more in-depth discussion of the section it was added to. I have also dropped the heading for that section down a level because it is part of social theory as a discipline. If someone feels strongly they may want to add sociology vs social theory as a second heading in this section and then link to the article. JenLouise 08:10, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Post-modern social theory section
The Post-modern social theory section at the moment is just a see also list. Unless some content regarding the nature of post-modern social theory can be added (as per the commentary for Classical social theory, Modern social theory, etc), this section should be deleted with the 3 articles just appearing in the See Also section. JenLouise 06:27, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
