Contemporary Sociological Theory
ISBN: 9780470655665 | 0470655666
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 1/10/2012
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Bringing the collection right up to date, this third edition is the definitive guide to current perspectives and approaches in the field of contemporary sociological theory. Organized thematically, this volume includes the most representative material available on topics such as symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, structuralism, network theory, critical theory, feminist theory, and the debates over modernity and postmodernity. The theories of Foucault, Giddens, and Bourdieu are thoroughly represented in order to enable the reader to examine... MORE
| Micro-Sociological Analysis Introduction to Part I | |
| The Phenomenology of the Social World | |
| The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life | |
| Symbolic Interactionism | |
| Interaction Ritual Chains | |
| Exchange and Rationality Introduction to Part II | |
| Social Behavior as Exchange | |
| Exchange and Power in social life | |
| The Logic of Collective Action | ... MORE|
| Theory of Group Solidarity | |
| Cooperation without Trust | |
| Institutions & Networks Introduction to Part III | |
| Economic Embeddedness | |
| The Iron Cage Revisited | |
| CATNETS | |
| Structural Holes | |
| Power and Inequality Introduction to Part IV | |
| The Power Elite | |
| On Hegemony | |
| Coercion, Capital and European States | |
| Power: A Radical View | |
| State, Society, and Modern History | |
| The Sociological Theory of Foucault Introduction to Part V | |
| The History of Sexuality | |
| Truth and Power | |
| Discipline and Punish | |
| The Sociological Theory of Pierre Bourdieu Introduction to Part VI | |
| Social Space and Symbolic Space | |
| Structures, Habitus, Practices | |
| The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed | |
| Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field | |
| Race, Gender, Difference Introduction to Part VII | |
| The Conceptual Practices of Power | |
| Black Feminist Thought | |
| Black Skin, White Masks | |
| The Paradoxes of Integration | |
| Sociological Theory of Jurgen Habermas Introduction to Part VIII | |
| Modernity: An Unfinished Project | |
| The Rationalization of the Life-World | |
| Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere | |
| Learning from Catastrophe | |
| Modernity Introduction to Part IX | |
| Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint | |
| Modernity and the Holocaust | |
| Consequences of Modernity | |
| We Have Never Been Modern | |
| Crisis and Change Introduction to Part X | |
| Systemic and Antisystemic Crises | |
| The Rise of the Network Society | |
| Reconfiguring Territory, Authority, and Rights | |
| The Modern World System in Crisis | |
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Craig Calhoun is University Professor and Professor of Sociology and History at New York University, and President of the Social Science Research Council.
Joseph Gerteis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
James Moody is Associate Professor of Sociology at Duke University, North Carolina.
Steven Pfaff is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington.
Indermohan Virk is Visiting Lecturer in Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington.
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