If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michel Foucault and
Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they
should also read Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and Slavoj Zizek. The Routledge
Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory offers a concise, comprehensive overview
of the convergences and divergences of social and cultural theory, and in so
doing offers a novel agenda for social and cultural research in the twenty-first
century.
This Handbook, edited by Anthony Elliott, develops a powerful argument for
bringing together social and cultural theory more systematically than ever
before. Key social and cultural theories, ranging from classical approaches to
postmodern, psychoanalytic