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Modern sociological theory

By: Ritzer, GeorgeContributor(s): Ritzer, GeorgeMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill Companies, c1996Edition: 4th EditionDescription: xxiv, 609 p. : illustrationsISBN: 0070530181; 9780070530188 ; 0071146598 ; 9780071146593Subject(s): Sociology | SociologistsDDC classification: 301

Contents:

Part 1. Introduction -- A historical sketch of sociological theory: the early years -- A historical sketch of sociological theory: the later years. Women in early sociology ; Karl Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge ; Radical sociology in America: C. Wright Mills ; Dramaturgical analysis: the work of Erving Goffman -- Part 2. Modern sociological theory: the major schools -- Structural functionalism, neofunctionalism, and conflict theory. Talcott Parson's structural functionalism ; Robert Merton's structural functionalism -- Varieties of neo-Marxian theory. Hegelian Marxism. Georg Lukács ; Antonio Gramsci ; The ideals of Jurgen Habermas -- Symbolic interactionism. The ideas of George Herbert Mead ; Redefining Mead and Blumer -- Ethnomethodology. Exchange, network, and rational choice theories. The exchange theory of George Homans ; Peter Blau's exchange theory ; The work of Richard Emerson and his disciples -- Contemporary feminist theory / by Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge -- Part 3. Recent integrative developments in sociological theory -- Micro-macro integration. George Ritzer: integrated sociological paradigm ; Jeffery Alexander: multidimensional sociology ; Norbert Wiley: levels of analysis ; James Coleman: micro-to-macro model ; Randall Collins: the micro foundations of macrosociology -- Back to the future: Norbert Elias's figurational sociology -- Agency-structure integration. Anthony Giddens: structuration theory ; Margaret Archer: culture and agency ; Pierre Bourdieu: habitus and field ; Jurgen Habermas: colonization of the life-world. Part 4. From modern to postmodern social theory -- Contemporary theories of modernity. Hyperrationality, McDonaldization, and Americanization ; Modernity and the Holocaust -- Structuralism, poststructuralism, and the emergence of postmodern social theory. Anthropological structuralism: Claude Lévi-Strauss ; The ideas of Michel Foucault ; Modern postmodern social theory: Fredric Jameson ; Extreme postmodern social theory: Jean Baudrillard -- Sociological metatheorizing and a metatheoretical schema for analyzing sociological theory. The ideas of Thomas Kuhn.

Summary: This text provides an overview of the schools of modern sociological thought. It focuses on topics such as the history of sociological theory, modern sociological theory and recent integrative developments.

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Rev. ed. of: Contemporary sociological theory. 3rd ed. c1992.

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Part 1. Introduction --
A historical sketch of sociological theory: the early years --
A historical sketch of sociological theory: the later years. Women in early sociology ; Karl Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge ; Radical sociology in America: C. Wright Mills ; Dramaturgical analysis: the work of Erving Goffman --
Part 2. Modern sociological theory: the major schools --
Structural functionalism, neofunctionalism, and conflict theory. Talcott Parson's structural functionalism ; Robert Merton's structural functionalism --
Varieties of neo-Marxian theory. Hegelian Marxism. Georg Lukács ; Antonio Gramsci ; The ideals of Jurgen Habermas --
Symbolic interactionism. The ideas of George Herbert Mead ; Redefining Mead and Blumer --
Ethnomethodology. Exchange, network, and rational choice theories. The exchange theory of George Homans ; Peter Blau's exchange theory ; The work of Richard Emerson and his disciples --
Contemporary feminist theory / by Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge --
Part 3. Recent integrative developments in sociological theory --
Micro-macro integration. George Ritzer: integrated sociological paradigm ; Jeffery Alexander: multidimensional sociology ; Norbert Wiley: levels of analysis ; James Coleman: micro-to-macro model ; Randall Collins: the micro foundations of macrosociology --
Back to the future: Norbert Elias's figurational sociology --
Agency-structure integration. Anthony Giddens: structuration theory ; Margaret Archer: culture and agency ; Pierre Bourdieu: habitus and field ; Jurgen Habermas: colonization of the life-world. Part 4. From modern to postmodern social theory --
Contemporary theories of modernity. Hyperrationality, McDonaldization, and Americanization ; Modernity and the Holocaust --
Structuralism, poststructuralism, and the emergence of postmodern social theory. Anthropological structuralism: Claude Lévi-Strauss ; The ideas of Michel Foucault ; Modern postmodern social theory: Fredric Jameson ; Extreme postmodern social theory: Jean Baudrillard --
Sociological metatheorizing and a metatheoretical schema for analyzing sociological theory. The ideas of Thomas Kuhn.

This text provides an overview of the schools of modern sociological thought. It focuses on topics such as the history of sociological theory, modern sociological theory and recent integrative developments.

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