Sociological Theory
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Written by one of the foremost authorities on sociological theory, this text gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought. The integration of key theories with biographical sketches of theorists and the requisite historical and intellectual context helps students to better understand the original works of classical and modern theorists as well as to compare and contrast the latest substantive theories.
List of Biographical and Autobiographical SketchesPreface1A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early Years32Karl Marx413Emile Durkheim754Max Weber1095George Simmel1556A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years1877Structural Functionalism, Neofunctionalism, and Conflict Theory2338Varieties of Neo-Marxian Theory2789Symbolic Interactionism32710Ethnomethodology37311Exchange, Network, and Rational Choice Theories40012Contemporary Feminist Theory43613Micro-Macro Integration48914Agency-Structure Integration52615Contemporary Theories of Modernity56516Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and the Emergence of Postmodern Social Theory592AppendixSociological Metatheorizing and a Metatheoretical Schema for Analyzing Sociological Theory621References651Name Index731Subject Index741
