Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics

by: Ritzer, George; Stepnisky, Jeff

Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics

by: Ritzer, George; Stepnisky, Jeff

ISBN 13:
9780078026782
ISBN 10:
0078026784
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 09/06/2012
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Newer Edition

Rent From $11.62

Used From $12.40

List Price $85.73 Save

Rent $11.62

TERM	PRICE	DUE
SEMESTER	$25.46	Aug 02
QUARTER	$24.19	Jul 15
SHORT TERM	$11.62	Jun 07

Added Benefits of Renting

Free Shipping Both Ways
Highlight/Take Notes Like You Own It
Purchase/Extend Before Due Date

Add to Cart

List Price $85.73 Save $73.33

Used $12.40

In Stock Usually Ships in 24 Hours.

We Buy This Book Back!

Included with your book

Free Shipping On Every Order

Add to Cart

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Extend or Purchase Your Rental at Any Time

Need to keep your rental past your due date? At any time before your due date you can extend or purchase your rental through your account.

Summary

Contemporary Social Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basicsis ideal for those looking for a brief, yet accessible text on sociological theory. An affordable alternative to a standard text, this volume is concise, comprehensive, informative, engaging, includes a range of pedagogical features, and it appeals to a wide range of students. The 4th edition has added new sections on W.E.B. Du Bois, Queer theory, and key concepts and applications boxes on a variety of contemporary social theories.

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics

Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics

9780078026782

0078026784

Summary

Table of Contents

Creating Sociological Theory

Defining Sociological Theory

Creating Sociological Theory: A More Realistic View

Multicultural Social Theory

Overview of the Book

Summary

Suggested Readings

2. Classical Theories I

Emile Durkheim: From Mechanical to Organic Solidarity

Two Types of Solidarity

Changes in Dynamic Density

Collective Conscience

Law: Repressive and Restitutive

Anomie

Karl Marx: From Capitalism to Communism

Human Potential

Alienation

Capitalism

Communism

Max Weber: The Rationalization of Society

Social Action

Behavior and Action

Types of Action

Types of Rationality

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Confucianism, Hinduism, and Capitalism

Authority Structures and Rationalization

Summary

Suggested Readings

3. Classical Theories II

Georg Simmel: The Growing Tragedy of Culture

Association

Forms and Types

Consciousness

Group Size

Distance and the Stranger

Distance and Value

Objective and Subjective Culture

Division of Labor

Thorstein Veblen: Increasing Control of Business over Industry

Business

Industry

George Herbert Mead: Social Behaviorism

The Act

Gestures

Significant Symbols and Language

The Self

I and Me

Summary Suggested Readings

4. Contemporary Grand Theories I

Structural Functionalism

The Functional Theory of Stratification and Its Critics

Talcott Parsons’s Structural Functionalism

Robert Merton’s Structural Functionalism

Conflict Theory

The Work of Ralf Dahrendorf

Authority

Groups, Conflict, and Change

General System Theory

The Work of Niklas Luhmann

System and Environment

Autopoiesis

Differentiation

Summary

Suggested Readings

5. Contemporary Grand Theories II

Neo-Marxian Theory

Critical Theory and the Emergence of the Culture Industry

Neo-Marxian Spatial Analysis

The Civilizing Process

Examples of the Civilizing Process

Explaining the Changes: Lengthening Dependency Chains

A Case Study: Fox Hunting