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    <title>Contemporary sociological theory</title>
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    <namePart>Wallace, R. A.</namePart>
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    <namePart>Wolf, Alison.</namePart>
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    <dateIssued>1980</dateIssued>
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  <tableOfContents>The understanding of society -- Functionalism 
Part 1: Talcot Parsons: Grand theory 
Part 2: Robert K. Merton: Middle range theory
Part 3: Conflict theory: Conflict theory and the critique of society -- Conflict theory and analytic sociology
Part 4: Social Exchange Theory: Exchange theory in modern sociology: the basic propositions -- George Homans - elementary social behaviour -- Peter Blau - exchange and social structure
Part 5: Symbolic interactionism: George Herbert Mead: The self -- Herbert Blumer: interpretation and methodology
Part 6: Ethnomethology: Harod Garfinkel: The founder of ethnomethodology 
Part 7: Current and changing concerns
Appendix: Sociobiology</tableOfContents>
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