Preface

Introduction: Applying Social Theory to Public Relations; Øyvind Ihlen and Betteke van Ruler On Beck: Risk and Sub-politics in Reflexive Modernity; Magnus Fredriksson On Berger: A Social Constructionist Perspective on Public Relations and Crisis Communication; Mats Heide On Bourdieu: Public Relations in Field Struggles; Øyvind Ihlen On Foucault: A Toolbox for Public Relations; Judy Motion and Shirley Leitch On Giddens: Interpreting Public Relations through Anthony Giddens’ Structuration and Late Modernity Theory; Jesper Falkheimer On Goffman: Researching Relations with Erving Goffman as Pathfinder; Catrin Johansson On Habermas: Understanding and Public Relations; Roland Burkart On Latour: Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) and Public Relations; Piet Verhoeven On Luhmann: Contingency, Risk, Trust and Reflection; Susanne Holmstrøm On Mayhew: The Demonization of Public Relations and the Validation of the New Citizen; Richard Stanton On Putnam: Bowling Together--Applying Putnam’s Theories of Community and Social Capital to Public Relations; Vilma Luoma-aho On Feminist Theory of Public Relations: An Example from Dorothy E. Smith; Lana F. Rakow and Diana Nastasia On Spivak: Theorizing Resistance: Applying Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in Public Relations; Mohan Jyoti Dutta On Weber: Legitimacy and Legitimation in Public Relations; Arild Wæraas Conclusions on the Domain, Context, Concepts, Issues, and Empirical Avenues of Public Relations; Øyvind Ihlen and Piet Verhoeven Commentary: Linking Sociology with Public Relations--Some Critical Reflections in Reflexive Times; Günter Bentele and Stefan Wehmeier