Closed theories | |
1. Positivism (Comte) | |
2. Empirism (Durkheim) | |
3. Circulation of elites (Pareto) | |
4. Hermeneutics (Weber) | |
5. Functional-structural (Parsons) | |
6. Systems theory (Luhmann) | |
7. Reflexive modernisation (Beck) | |
Open theories | |
1. Critique of political economy (Marx) | |
2. Critical Rationalism (Popper) | |
3. Life-world (Lefebvre, Habermas) | |
4. Social/symbolic capital (Bourdieu) |