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Contemporary Sociological Theory: Expanding the Classical Tradition Paperback - 2005
by Wallace, Ruth A
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- Title Contemporary Sociological Theory: Expanding the Classical Tradition
- Author Wallace, Ruth A
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 6th ed.
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 466
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pearson, London
- Date 2005
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0131850512.G
- ISBN 9780131850514 / 0131850512
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Sociology, Sociology - Philosophy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004018208
- Dewey Decimal Code 301
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Table of contents
1. THE UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIETY.2. FUNCTIONALISM.Part One: Talcott Parsons: Grand Theory.Part Two: Robert K. Merton: Middle-Range Theory.Part Three: Neofunctionalism.3. CONFLICT THEORY.Part One: Conflict Theory and the Critique of Society.Part Two: Conflict Theory and Analytic Sociology: The Legacy of Max Weber.4. EVOLUTION AND MODERNITY: MACROSOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES.Part One: Karl Marx and the Classless Society.Part Two: Talcott Parsons's Evolutionary Model.Part Three: Jurgen Habermas: Rationalization and Communicative Action.Part Four: Anthony Giddens: Structuration Theory and High Modernity.5. SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM.Part One: George Herbert Mead: The Self.Part Two: Herbert Blumer: Interpretation and Methodology.Part Three: Erving Goffman: Dramaturgy and the Interaction Order.Part Four: Arlie Russell Hochschild and Patricia Hill Collins: Expanding the Horizons of Symbolic Interactionism.6. PHENOMENOLOGY.Part One: Harold Garfinkel: The Founder of Ethnomethodology.Part Two: Peter Berger: The Social Construction of Reality.Part Three: Dorothy E. Smith: Feminist Standpoint Theory.7. THEORIES OF RATIONAL CHOICE.Part One: Rational Choice, Social Exchange, and Individual Behavior.Part Two: Rational Choice and the Analysis of Social Structure.Part Three: James Coleman and the Foundations of Social Theory.8. REDISCOVERING THE BODY: THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE BODY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY.Part One: The Sociology of the Body.Part Two: Sociobiology.9. CONCLUSION: EVALUATING SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY.Part One: The Future of Sociological Theory: Modernism and Postmodernism.Part Two: Social Theory and Understanding: The Value of Multiple Perspectives.Selected Bibliography.Index.
