Sociological Theory
ISBN: 9780078111679 | 0078111676
Edition: 8thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 5/19/2010
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Written by one of the foremost authorities on sociological theory, this text gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought. The integration of key theories with biographical sketches of theorists and the requisite historical and intellectual context helps students to better understand the original works of classical and modern theorists as well as to compare and contrast the latest substantive theories.
| Classical Sociological Theory | |
| A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early Years | |
| Karl Marx | |
| Emile Durkheim | |
| Max Weber | |
| Georg Simmel | |
| Modern Sociological Theory: The Major Schools | |
| A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years | |
| Structural Functionalism, Neofunctionalism, and Conflict Theory | |
| Varieties of Neo-Marxian Theory | |
| Systems Theory | |
| Symbolic Interactionism | |
| Ethnomethodology | |
| Exchange, Network, and Rational Choice Theories | |
| Contemporary Feminist Theory | |
| Recent Integrative Developments in Sociological Theory | |
| Micro-Macro Integration and Agency-Structure Integration | |
| From Modern to Postmodern Social Theory (and Beyond) | |
| Contemporary Theories of Modernity | |
| Globalization Theory | |
| Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and the Emergence of Postmodern Social Theory | |
| Appendix: Sociological Metatheorizing and a Metatheoretical Schema for Analyzing Sociological Theory | |
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