Contemporary Social & Sociological Theory : Visualizing Social Worlds /: Visualizing Social Worlds. ([2013])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Contemporary Social and Sociological Theory
• Further Information: Note: Kenneth Allan.
• Other Names: Allan, Kenneth, 1951-
• Contents: Part I: Introductions; Chapter 1: In the Beginning Was Modernity; Modern Society; Modern Knowledge; Theory: The Key to Modern Knowledge; The Classical Theorists; Complexities of Contemporary Theory; Summary; Building Your Theory Toolbox; Chapter 2: Defining Moments in Twentieth-Century Theory - Talcott Parsons and the Frankfurt School; Talcott Parsons: Defining Sociology; The Frankfurt School: The Problem With Sociology; Summary; Building Your Theory Toolbox; Part II: Individuals and Situations; Chapter 3: The Language of the Self - Herbert Blumer; Theorist's Digest; Concepts and Theory: Emergent Meanings; Concepts and Theory: Self and Action; Concepts and Theory: Society and Sociology; Summary; Taking the Perspective: Symbolic Interactionism; Building Your Theory Toolbox; Chapter 4: Imaging the Self - Erving Goffman; The Big Picture: Self-Image; Theorist's Digest; Concepts and Theory: Impression Management; Concepts and Theory: The Encounter; Concepts and Theory: Frames and Keys; Concepts and Theory: The Interaction Order; Summary; Taking the Perspective: Dramaturgy; Building Your Theory Toolbox; Chapter 5: Achieving Social Order - Harold Garfinkel; The Big Picture: Social Constructivism; Theorist's Digest; Concepts and Theory: Achieving Social Order; Concepts and Theory: Reflexivity; Summary; Taking the Perspective: Ethnomethodology; Building Your Theory Toolbox; Chapter 6: Social Exchanges - George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins; The Big Picture: Agency; Elementary Forms of Social Behavior: George Homans; Theorist's Digest; Concepts and Theory: Basic Principles of Behavioral Psychology; Summary; Social Exchanges and Power: Peter Blau; Theorist's Digest; Concepts and Theory: Social Exchanges; Concepts and Theory: Creating Power and Social Structures; Summary; Ritualized Exchanges: Randall Collins; Theorist's Digest; Concepts and Theory: Emotion - The Generalized; Concepts and Theory: Interaction Ritual Chains; Concepts and Theory: Ritualizing Stratification; Summary; Taking the Perspective: Exchange Theory; Building Your Theory Toolbox; Part III: Social Structures and Systems; The Big Picture: Levels of Analysis; Chapter 7: Structures of Racial and Gender Inequality - William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz; The Big Picture: Structures; The Declining Significance of Race: William Julius Wilson; Theorist's Digest; Concepts and Theory: American Racial History; Concepts and Theory: Policy Implications; Summary; Taking the Perspective: American Race Theory; The Structures of Gender Inequality: Janet Saltzman Chafetz; Theorist's Digest; Concepts and Theory: Coercive Structures of Gender Inequality; Concepts and Theory: Micro-Level Coercive Structures; Concepts and Theory: Changing Gender Inequality; Summary; Taking the Perspective: Feminism; Building Your Theory Toolbox; Chapter 8: Structuring Class - Pierre Bourdieu; The Big Picture: Class; Theorist's Digest; Concepts and Theory: Structuring Class; Concepts and Theory: Replicating Class; Concepts and Theory: Toward a New Sociology; Summary; Taking the Perspective: Cultural Embodiment; Building Your Theory Toolbox; Chapter 9: Structures of Power - Michel Foucault; The Big Picture: Power; Theorist's Digest; Summary; Taking the Perspective: Dramaturgy; Building Your Theory Toolbox; Chapter 5: Achieving Social Order - Harold Garfinkel; The Big Picture: Social Constructivism; Theorist's Digest; Concepts and Theory: Achieving Social Order; Concepts and Theory: Reflexivity; Summary; Taking the Perspective: Ethnomethodology; Building Your Theory Toolbox; Chapter 6: Social Exchanges - George Homans, Peter Blau, Theory Toolbox; Chapter 9: Structures of Power - Michel Foucault; The Big Picture: Power; Theorist's Digest; Concepts and Theory: The Truth About Truth; Concepts and Theory: The Practices of Power; Concepts and Theory: Disciplining the Body; Summary; Taking the Perspective: Poststructuralism; Building Your Theory Toolbox; Chapter 10: World-Systems Theory - Immanuel Wallerstein; The Big Picture: Globalization; Theorist's Digest; Concepts and Theory: The Dialectics of Capitalism; Concepts and Theory: The End of the World as We Know It; Summary; Taking the Perspective: World-Systems Theory; Building Your Theory Toolbox; Chapter 11: The Network Society - Manual Castells; The Big Picture: Network Society; Theorist's Digest; Concepts and Theory: Information Technology; Concepts and Theory: Networks, Identities, and Democracy; The Network Society and the Crisis in Democracy; Summary; Taking the Perspective: Society Writ Large; Building Your Theory Toolbox; Part IV: Modernity - Possibilities and Problems; The Big Picture: Civil Society and Democracy; Chapter 12: Reason and Democracy - Jürgen Habermas; The Big Picture: Social Change; Theorist's Digest; Concepts and Theory: Capitalism and Legitimation; Concepts and Theory: The Colonization of Democracy; Concepts and Theory: Hope for Democracy; Summary; Taking the Perspective: Critical Theory; Building Your Theory Toolbox; Chapter 13: Civil Society and Democracy - Jeffrey C. Alexander; The Big Picture: Solidarity; Theorist's Digest; Concepts and Theory: The New Civil Sphere; Concepts and Theory: Civil Institutions; Concepts and Theory: Civil Society Outcomes; Summary; Taking the Perspective: A Strong Program in Cultural Society; Building Your Theory Toolbox; Chapter 14: Runaway Modernity - Anthony Giddens; The Big Picture: Social Ontology; Theorist's Digest; Concepts and Theory: The Reality of Society; Making Society and Hiding It; Unconscious Motivation; Concepts and Theory: The Contours of Modernity; Concepts and Theory: The Experience of Modernity; Summary; Building Your Theory Toolbox; Part V: Contemporary Political Identities;
• Edition: Third Edition
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xx, 465 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 301; Sociology; Sociology -- Philosophy; Sociologists
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452256436; 1452256438
• Related ISBNs: 9781412992770; 141299277X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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