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List of Figures and Tables Preface 1. Introduction: Public Relations and Social Theory; Magnus Fredriksson & Oyvind Ihlen SOCIAL CHANGES 2. On Weber: Legitimacy and Legitimation in Public Relations; Arild Waraas 3. On Luhmann: Reframing Public Relations as Part of Society’s Evolutionary Learning Processes; Susanne Holmstrom 4. On Bauman: Power, Ethics and Social Hermeneutics; Magda Piezcka 5. On Beck: Public Relations and Quests for Responsibility; Magnus Fredriksson 6. On Latour: Actor-Networks, Modes of Existence and Public Relations; Piet Verhoeven SOCIAL FORCES 7. On Bourdieu: Public Relations, Positions and Resources; Oyvind Ihlen 8. On Harrison White: Rethinking Relations in Public Relations; Peter Winkler & Stefan Wehmeier 9. On Meyer: Public Relations in a Context of World Society, Soft Actors and Rationalized De-coupling; Josef Pallas & Emilia Kvarnstrom 10. On Giddens: Interpreting Public Relations through Anthony Giddens’s Structuration and Late Modernity Theories; Jesper Falkheimer SOCIAL INTERACTIONS 11. On Putnam: Bowling Together - Applying Robert Putnam’s Theories of Community and Social Capital to Public Relations; Vilma Luoma-aho 12. On Berger: If Peter Berger were doing Public Relations - A Social Constructionist Perspective on Crisis Communication; Mats Heide 13. On Boltanski: The Sociology of Critique and Public Relations; Lee Edwards 14. On Goffman: Researching Relations with Erving Goffman as Pathfinder; Catrin Johansson 15. On Habermas: Communication and Understanding - Key Concepts for Public Relations; Roland Burkart POWER 16. On Marx: Capitalism and Public Relations; Kay Weaver 17. On Dewey: Public Relations and its Eclipse of the Public; Lana Rakow 18. On Foucault: Engaging with Foucault’s Critical Theory and Methods; Judy Motion & Shirley Leitch 19. On Dorothy Smith: Public Relations and Feminist Theory at the Crossroads; Lana Rakow & Diana Iulia Nastasia 20. On Spivak: Theorizing Resistance in Public Relations; Mohan Jyoti Dutta 21. On Mouffe: Radical Pluralism and Public Relations; Scott Davidson & Judy Motion 22. Conclusions on the Compass, Context, Concepts, Concerns and Empirical Avenues for Public Relations; Oyvind Ihlen, Piet Verhoeven & Magnus Fredriksson 　 Author Bios