Modern sociological theory /
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Revised edition of: Contemporary sociological theory. 3rd ed. c1992.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-586) and index.
Part 1. Introduction -- A historical sketch of sociological theory: the early years -- A historical sketch of sociological theory: the later years. Women in early sociology ; Karl Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge ; Radical sociology in America: C. Wright Mills ; Dramaturgical analysis: the work of Erving Goffman -- Part 2. Modern sociological theory: the major schools -- Structural functionalism, neofunctionalism, and conflict theory. Talcott Parson's structural functionalism ; Robert Merton's structural functionalism -- Varieties of neo-Marxian theory. Hegelian Marxism. Georg Luk�acs ; Antonio Gramsci ; The ideals of Jurgen Habermas -- Symbolic interactionism. The ideas of George Herbert Mead ; Redefining Mead and Blumer -- Ethnomethodology.
Exchange, network, and rational choice theories. The exchange theory of George Homans ; Peter Blau's exchange theory ; The work of Richard Emerson and his disciples -- Contemporary feminist theory / by Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge -- Part 3. Recent integrative developments in sociological theory -- Micro-macro integration. George Ritzer: integrated sociological paradigm ; Jeffery Alexander: multidimensional sociology ; Norbert Wiley: levels of analysis ; James Coleman: micro-to-macro model ; Randall Collins: the micro foundations of macrosociology -- Back to the future: Norbert Elias's figurational sociology -- Agency-structure integration. Anthony Giddens: structuration theory ; Margaret Archer: culture and agency ; Pierre Bourdieu: habitus and field ; Jurgen Habermas: colonization of the life-world.
Part 4. From modern to postmodern social theory -- Contemporary theories of modernity. Hyperrationality, McDonaldization, and Americanization ; Modernity and the Holocaust -- Structuralism, poststructuralism, and the emergence of postmodern social theory. Anthropological structuralism: Claude L�evi-Strauss ; The ideas of Michel Foucault ; Modern postmodern social theory: Fredric Jameson ; Extreme postmodern social theory: Jean Baudrillard -- Sociological metatheorizing and a metatheoretical schema for analyzing sociological theory. The ideas of Thomas Kuhn.
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