Public Relations and Social Theory

Introduction: Applying Social Theory to Public Relations; A yvind 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; A yvind 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 Holmstrom 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 Waraas Conclusions on the Domain, Context, Concepts, Issues, and Empirical Avenues of Public Relations; A yvind Ihlen and Piet Verhoeven Commentary: Linking Sociology with Public Relations--Some Critical Reflections in Reflexive Times; Gunter Bentele and Stefan Wehmeier

Dr. A yvind Ihlen is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, and an associate professor at Hedmark College, both in Norway. Ihlen has published several books and his research has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals such as Journal of Public Relations Research, Public Relations Review, Journal of Public Affairs, Journal of Communication Management, International Journal of Strategic Communication, Corporate Communications: An International Journal, and Business Strategy and the Environment. Prof. Dr. Betteke van Ruler is a professor at the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. van Ruler is a member of a number of editorial boards, among them Public Relations Review and Corporate Communications: An International Journal. From 2004 to 2006 she was Chair of the Department of Communication Sciences of the University of Amsterdam. She has also served as the President of the European Public Relations Education and Research Association (Euprera) and as Chair of the Public Relations Division of the International Communication Association. Dr. Magnus Fredriksson is a lecturer at University of Gothenburg and former director of the program in Communication Management at the University West, both in Sweden. He has published in Swedish public relations anthologies, written for two government commission reports, and been chronicler for the Swedish Public Relations Association. Fredriksson is co-founder of the Nordic research network LOKE and is a board member of the Swedish Association for Media and Communication Research.