Books by Kenneth Allan

Continually praised for its conversational tone, personal examples, and helpful pedagogical tools, this book is organized around the modern ideas of progress, knowledge, and democracy.

A revised and updated edition of this accessible yet provocative survey of contemporary social and sociological theories.

The Social Lens: An Invitation to Social and Sociological Theory covers the key thinkers in Western thought for the past 200 years. Written in a conversational style that is both appealing and provocative, this text uses real life examples to draw readers in and invite them to consider the ideas that have shaped our understanding of society.

Building upon the insights of postmodernism, this book argues for an approach to studying culture that has as its basis the social construction of meaning and reality and emphasizes micro-level processes and emotion.

A brief and accessible text that provides undergraduate sociological theory students with the tools they need to think theoretically about their social world