Sociological theory. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: George Ritzer (University of Maryland), Jeff Stepnisky (MacEwan University).
• Authors: Ritzer, George; Stepnisky, Jeffrey
• Contents: Biographical and Autobiographical Sketches; Preface; PART I Classical Sociological Theory; CHAPTER 1 A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early Years; Introduction; Social Forces in the Development of Sociological Theory; Intellectual Forces and the Rise of Sociological Theory; The Development of French Sociology; The Development of German Sociology; The Origins of British Sociology; The Key Figure in Early Italian Sociology; Turn-of-the-Century Developments in European Marxism; CHAPTER 2 Karl Marx; Introduction; The Dialectic; Dialectical Method; Human Potential; Alienation; The Structures of Capitalist Society; Materialist Conception of History; Cultural Aspects of Capitalist Society; Marx’s Economics: A Case Study; Communism; Criticisms; Contemporary Applications; CHAPTER 3 Emile Durkheim; Introduction; Social Facts; The Division of Labor in Society; Suicide; The Elementary Forms of Religious Life; Moral Education and Social Reform; Criticisms; Contemporary Applications; CHAPTER 4 Max Weber; Methodology; Substantive Sociology; Criticisms; Contemporary Applications; CHAPTER 5 Georg Simmel; Primary Concerns; Individual Consciousness and Individuality; Social Interaction (“Association”); Social Structures and Worlds; Objective Culture; Secrecy: A Case Study in Simmel’s Sociology; Criticisms; Contemporary Applications; PART II Modern Sociological Theory: The Major Schools; CHAPTER 6 A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years; Early American Sociological Theory; Sociological Theory to Midcentury; Sociological Theory from Midcentury; Late-Twentieth-Century Developments in Sociological Theory; Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity; Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century; CHAPTER 7 Structural Functionalism, Systems Theory, and Conflict Theory; Structural Functionalism; Systems Theory; Conflict Theory; CHAPTER 8 Varieties of Neo-Marxian Theory; Economic Determinism; Hegelian Marxism; Critical Theory; Neo-Marxian Economic Sociology; Historically Oriented Marxism; Neo-Marxian Spatial Analysis; Post-Marxist Theory; CHAPTER 9 Symbolic Interactionism; The Major Historical Roots; The Ideas of George Herbert Mead; Symbolic Interactionism: The Basic Principles; The Self and the Work of Erving Goffman; The Sociology of Emotions; Criticisms; The Future of Symbolic Interactionism; CHAPTER 10 Ethnomethodology; Defining Ethnomethodology; The Diversification of Ethnomethodology; Some Early Examples; Conversation Analysis; Studies of Institutions; Criticisms of Traditional Sociology; Stresses and Strains in Ethnomethodology; Synthesis and Integration; CHAPTER 11 Exchange, Network, and Rational Choice Theories; Exchange Theory; Network Theory; Network Exchange Theory; Rational Choice Theory; CHAPTER 12 Contemporary Feminist Theory; Feminism’s Basic Questions; Historical Framing: Feminism, Sociology, and Gender; Varieties of Contemporary Feminist Theory; Feminist Sociological Theorizing; CHAPTER 13 Micro-Macro and Agency-Structure Integration; Micro-Macro Integration; Agency-Structure Integration; Agency-Structure and Micro-Macro Linkages: Fundamental Differences; PART III From Modern to Postmodern Social Theory (and Beyond); CHAPTER 14 Contemporary Theories of Modernity; Classical Theorists on Modernity; The Juggernaut of Modernity; The Risk Society; The Holocaust and Liquid Modernity; Modernity’s Unfinished Project; Self, Society, and Religion; Informationalism and the Network Society; CHAPTER 15 Theories of Race and Colonialism; Fanon and the Colonial Subject; Postcolonial Theory; Critical Theories of Race and Racism; Racial Formation; A Systematic Theory of Race; Southern Theory and Indigenous Resurgence; CHAPTER 16 Globalization Theory; Major Contemporary Theorists on Globalization; Cultural Theory; Cultural Differentialism; Cultural Convergence; Cultural Hybridization; Economic Theory; Political Theory; Neoliberalism; Other Theories; CHAPTER 17 Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodern Social Theory; Structuralism; Poststructuralism; Postmodern Social Theory; Criticisms and Post-Postmodern Social Theory; CHAPTER 18 Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century; Queer Theory; Actor-Network Theory, Posthumanism, and Postsociality; Affect Theory; Prosumption Theory; References;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (832 pages)
• Subjects: 301; Sociology; Sociologists -- Biography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781506337739; 1506337732
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