Contemporary Social and Sociological Theory : Visualizing Social Worlds
ISBN: 9781412978200 | 1412978203
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Pub. Date: 5/13/2010
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Written in a conversational style that conveys the author's enthusiam for theory, this updated edition of Kenneth Allan's acclaimed text appeals to the reader to consider the 'œtheoretical you,' as an individual in 21st-century society. This book introduces students to an array of social theories, each presented from the perspectives of these well-known theorists: Peter Blau, Janet Saltzman, Chafetz George Homans, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Talcott Parsons, Herbert Blumer, Harold Garfinkel, Dorothy E. Smith, Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Gi... MORE
| Introduction (to be read): The Real You | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| In the Beginning There Was Modernity | |
| Defining Moments in 20th-Century Theory: Talcott Parsons and The Frankfurt School | |
| The Social Situation and Its People | |
| Symbolic Interaction: Herbert Blumer (1900-1987) | |
| Organizing Ordinary Life: Harold Garfinkel (1917-) | |
| Per... MORE | |
| Social Exchanges: George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins | |
| Elementary Forms of Social Behavior: George Homans (1910-1989), | |
| Social Exchanges and Power: Peter Blau (1918-2002) | |
| Ritualized Exchanges: Randall Collins (1941-) | |
| Social Structures and Systems | |
| Structures of Racial and Gender Inequality: William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz | |
| The Declining Significance of Race: William Julius Wilson (1935-) | |
| The Structures of Gender Inequality: Janet Saltzman Chafetz (1942-2006) | |
| Structuring Class: Pierre Bourdieu (1960-2002) | |
| Global Capitalism: Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-) | |
| The Network Society: Manuel Castells (1942-) | |
| Modernity and Postmodernity | |
| Modernity and Reason: Jürgen Habermas (1929-) | |
| Runaway Modernity: Anthony Giddens (1938-) | |
| Defining the Possible and Impossible: Michel Foucault (1926-1984) | |
| The End of Everything: Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) | |
| Identity Politics | |
| Racial Wounds and the Niggerization of America: Cornel West (1953-) | |
| Text, Power, and Women: Dorothy E. Smith (1926-) | |
| Embodying Sex: Judith Butler (1956-) | |
| Glossary | |
| References | |
| Index | |
| About the Author | |
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