Tom Brock is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He received his PhD and MA from the University of Durham. Tom teaches on a range of social theory and digital sociology courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research interests include games, play, digital consumption and social theory. Tom has published articles relevant in game studies and the sociology of consumption, such as 'Is Computer Gaming a Craft? Prehension, Practice and Puzzle-Solving in Gaming Labour', 'Video gaming as Craft Consumption', and 'Videogame Consumption: The Apophatic Dimension'.
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Introduction Marx and Marxism Nietzsche, Freud And Weber Durkheim And Functionalism Phenomenology And Symbolic Interactions Language, Discourse And Postmodernity Structure, Agency And Reflexivity Feminism And Intersectionality Postcolonial Theory New Materialism And Posthumanism
Elegantly written, ambitious in scope and meticulously clear in its exposition, Brock's Welcome to Social Theory provides an engaging introduction to key currents in social thought that will prove indispensable to both newcomers and more established readers in this field. -- Jason Hughes The author has extensive experience teaching sociological theory to students new to the field. -- Matthew David * Editorial * This book does what more social theory books should do: it combines a clear and unfussy prose style with carefully selected graphic representations and images of key concepts and ideas. As such, it enables complex ideas to be made clear in ways that words alone often fail to do. I enjoyed very much reading about and 'looking' at the conceptual ideas this book sets forth' -- Christopher Thorpe * Editorial *