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Sociological Theory
First Edition
- Bert N. Adams - University of Wisconsin - Madison, Chile, University of Wisconsin, USA
- R. A. Sydie - University of Alberta - Edmonton, Canada
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Social Theory
Social Theory
March 2001 | 672 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This concise text covers both classical and contemporary social thought. It traces the major schools of thought over the past 150 years as they appear and reappear in different chapters and looks at important new voices in social theory, including 14 female theorists. The treatment of individual theories and theorists is balanced with the development of key themes and ideas about social life, including race, class and gender.
Introduction
PART ONE: THE EUROPEAN ROOTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
The Origins of Sociological Theory
Saint-Simon, Comte and Martineau
Theorizing after the French Revolution
PART TWO: CONSERVATIVE THEORIES
Spencer and Sumner
Evolutionism and Functionalism
Durkheim
Social Realism and Functionalism Extended
PART THREE: RADICAL THEORY
Marx and Engels
Radical Anti-Capitalism
Lenin and Luxemburg
Marxism Extended
PART FOUR: SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES OF COMPLEXITY AND FORM
Max Weber and Marianne Weber
Social Action and Societal Complexity
Simmel
The Sociology of Form and Content
PART FIVE: SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES OF POLITICS AND ECONOMICS
Pareto and Michels
Political Sociological Theories
Veblen and Schumpeter
Economic Sociological Theories
PART SIX: OTHER VOICES IN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIZING
Gilman and Webb
Society and Gender
Du Bois
Sociological Theory and Race
Cooley, Mead and Freud
Society, Self and Mind
PART SEVEN: TWENTIETH-CENTURY FUNCTIONALISM AND BEYOND
Parsons and Merton
Twentieth-Century Functionalism
Luhmann and Giddens
Systems, Structuration and Modernity
PART EIGHT: CRITICISM, MARXISM AND CHANGE
Critical Theory
Marxism since 1930
Socio-Cultural Change
PART NINE: TRANSITIONS AND CHALLENGES
Mid-Twentieth-Century Sociology
Blumer, Goffman and Hochschild
Symbolic Interactionism
Coleman
Rational Choice and Exchange
Smith and Collins
Feminist Sociological Theory
Knowledge, Truth and Power
Final Thoughts on Sociological Theorizing
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