Contemporary sociological theory
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Contemporary sociological theory
Blackwell Publishing, 2007
2nd ed
- : pbk
Available at 9 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This meticulous collection of contemporary sociological theory is the definitive guide to current perspectives and approaches in the field, examining current key topics in the field such as such as symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, structuralism, network theory, critical theory, feminist theory, and the debates over modernity and postmodernity. * Includes the work of major figures including Foucault, Giddens, Bourdieu, Bauman, and Habermas * Organized thematically, with editorial introductions to put the readings into theoretical perspective * New selected readings bring the book up to date
Table of Contents
General Introduction. Part I: Micro-Sociological Analysis. Introduction to Part I. 1. The Phenomenology of the Social World. (Alfred Schutz). 2. The Social Construction of Reality. (Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann). 3. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. (Erving Goffman). 4. Symbolic Interactionism. (Herbert Blumer). Part II: Exchange and Rationality. Introduction. 5. Social Behavior as Exchange. (George C. Homans). 6. Exchange and Power in Social Life. (Peter M. Blau). 7. The Logic of Collective Action. (Mancur Olson). 8. Rights to Act. (James S. Coleman). 9. Cooperation without Trust. (Karen S. Cook, Russell Hardin & Margaret Levi). Part III: Institutional Analysis. Introduction. 10. Economic Embeddedness. (Mark Granovetter). 11. The Iron Cage Revisited. (Paul J. Dimaggio & Walter L. Powell). 12. CATNETS. (Harrison White). Part IV: The Sociological Theory of Michel Foucault. Introduction. 13. The History of Sexuality. 14. Truth and Power. 15. Discipline and Punish. Part V: The Sociological Theory of Anthony Giddens. Introduction. 16. Some New Rules of Sociological Method. 17. Agency, Structure. 18. The Consequences of Modernity. Part VI: The Sociological Theory of Pierre Bourdieu. Introduction. 19. Social Space and Symbolic Space. 20. Structures, Habitus, Practices. 21. The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed. 22. Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field. Part VII: Race, Gender, and Difference. Introduction. 23. The Conceptual Practices of Power. (Dorothy E. Smith). 24. Black Feminist Thought. (Patricia Hill Collins). 25. Black Skin, White Masks. (Frantz Fanon). 26. The Paradoxes of Integration. (Orlando Patterson). Part VIII: Criticism and Modernity: Sociological Theory of Jurgen Habermas. Introduction. 27. Modernity: An Unfinished Project. 28. The Rationalization of the Life-World. 29. Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere. 30. Learning from Catastrophe. Part IX: Modernity and Postmodernity. Introduction. 31. Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint. (Norbert Elias). 32. Modernity and the Holocaust. (Zygmunt Bauman). 33. We Have Never Been Modern. (Bruno Latour). 34. World-Systems Analysis. (Immanuel Wallerstein). Index
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