Metatheorizing
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Metatheorizing
（Key issues in sociological theory, 6）
Sage, c1992
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Metatheorizing has come of age in sociology and other social science fields, forming the backdrop for serious intellectual debates over agency and structure, micro and macro level analysis, positivism and interpretivism, modernist and postmodernist thought. These debates are highlighted in this focused collection of essays.
Contributors are among the leading figures in sociological theory - and represent a wide array of theoretical `camps'. Many of the debates in sociological theory are carried forward in the book. Collectively the contributors point out the importance of building overarching theoretical models and suggest new directions for metatheoretical work.
Table of Contents
Metatheorizing in Sociology - George Ritzer
Explaining the Coming of Age
Traditions and Competition - Jeffrey C Alexander and Paul Colomy
Preface to a Postpositivist Approach to Knowledge Cumulation
Metatheory, Conceptual Standardization, and the Future of Sociology - Walter L Wallace
Pathways to Metatheory - Edward A Tiryakian
Rethinking the Presuppositions of Macrosociology
Metatheorizing Historical Rupture - Robert J Antonio and Douglas Kellner
Classical Theory and Modernity
A Working Strategy for Constructing Theories - Joseph Berger, David G Wagner and Morris Zelditch, Jr
State Organizing Processes
Sociological Metatheory and its Cultured Despisers - Charles Lemert
The Postmodern Discourse of Metatheory - Deena Weinstein and Michael A Weinstein
Relativism and Reflexivity in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge - Stephan Fuchs
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