Sociological Theory

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ISBN: 9780761985570 | 0761985573
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 1/30/2001

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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.

Preface

xxiii

A Note to Students

xxix

Section I The European Roots of Sociological Theory

(58)

The Origins of Sociological Theory

(29)

Theorizing After the French Revolution | Saint-Simon, Comte, and Martineau

(27)

Section II Conservative Theories

(60)

Evolutionism and Functionalism | Spencer and Sumner

(29)

Society as Sui Generis | Durkheim

(29)

Section III Radical Theory

119

(48)

Radical Anticapitalism | Marx and Engels

121

(24)

Marxism Extended | Lenin and Luxemburg

145

(22)

Section IV Sociological Theories of Complexity and Form

167

(56)

Social Action and Societal Complexity | Max Weber and Marianne Weber

169

(28)

The Sociology of Form and Content | Simmel

197

(26)

Section V Sociological Theories of Politics and Economics

223

(42)

Political Sociological Theories | Pareto and Michels

225

(20)

Economic Sociological Theories | Veblen and Schumpeter

245

(20)

Section VI Other Voices in Sociological Theorizing

265

(78)

Society and Gender | Gilman and Webb

267

(24)

Sociological Theory and Race | Du Bois

291

(19)

Society, Self, and Mind | Cooley, Mead, and Freud

310

(33)

Section VII Twentieth-Century Functionalism and Beyond

343

(50)

Twentieth-Century Functionalism | Parsons and Merton

345

(24)

Systems, Structuration, and Modernity | Luhmann and Giddens

369

(24)

Section VIII Criticism, Marxism, and Change

393

(84)

Critical Theory | The Frankfurt School and Habermas

395

(30)

Marxism Since 1930 | Poulantzas, Althusser, Dunayevskaya, and Wright

425

(23)

Sociocultural Change: Evolution, World System, and Revolution | Service, Wallerstein, and Skocpol

448

(29)

Section IX Transitions and Challenges

477

(134)

Mid-Twentieth-Century Sociology

479

(23)

Symbolic Interactionism | Blumer, Goffman, and Hochschild

502

(24)

Rational Choice and Exchange | Coleman

526

(18)

Feminist Sociological Theory | Smith and Collins

544

(30)

Knowledge, Truth, and Power | Foucault and Feminist Responses

574

(26)

Final Thoughts on Sociological Theorizing

600

(11)

Credits

611

Index

I-1

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