Sociological theory
This concise text, covers both classical and contemporary social thought. It traces the major schools of thought over the past 150 years as they appear and reappear in different chapters and looks at important new voices in social theory. The treatment of individual theories and theorists is balanced with the development of key themes and ideas about social life.
Print Book, English, 2001
Pine Forge Press, Thousand Oaks, Calif., 2001
xxx, 612, index-23 pages ; 24 cm
9780761985570, 0761985573
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The origins of sociological theory
Theorizing after the French Revolution / Saint-Simon, Comte and Martineau
Evolutionism and functionalism / Spencer and Summer
Soicety a Sui Generis / Durkheim
Radical anticipation / Marx and Engels
Marxism extended / Lenin and Luxemburg
Social action and societal complexity / Max Weber and Marianne Weber
The sociology of form and content / Simmel
Political sociological theories / Pareto and Michels
Economic sociological theories / Veblen and Schumpeter
Society and gender / Gilman and Webb
Sociological theory and race / Du Bois
Society, self, and mind / Cooley, Mead, and Freud
Twentieth-century functionalism / Parsons and Merton
Systems, structuration, and modernity / Luhmann and Giddens
Critical theory / The Frankfurt School and Herbermas
Marxism since 1930 / Poulantzas, Althusser, Dunayevskaya, and Wright
Sociocultural change: evolution, world system, and revolution / Service, Wallerstein and Skocpol
Mid-twentieth-century sociology
Symbolic interactionism / Blumer, Goffman, and Hochschild
Rational choice and exchange / Coleman
Feminist sociological theory / Smith and Collins
Knowledge, truth, and power / Foucault and feminist responses
Final thoughts on sociological theorizing
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