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Theoretical sociology : 1830 to the present /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turner, Jonathan H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks [California] : SAGE Publications, 2013.
Subjects:
Sociology > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Theoretical sociology
  • The classical period, 1830-1935
  • Auguste Comte and the emergence of sociology
  • Herbert Spencer
  • Karl Marx
  • Max Weber
  • Georg Simmel
  • Émile Durkheim
  • George Herbert Mead
  • The classical roots of contemporary theorizing
  • The modern era of theorizing
  • Functional theorizing
  • General systems theorizing
  • Ecological theorizing
  • Evolutionary theorizing
  • Conflict theorizing
  • Exchange theorizing
  • Symbolic interactionist theorizing
  • Role and status theorizing
  • Dramaturgical theorizing
  • Phenomenological and ethnomethodological theorizing
  • Structural and structuralist theorizing
  • Cultural theorizing
  • Postmodern theorizing
  • European critical theorizing
  • American-style critical theorizing
  • Elements of scientific theorizing in sociology
  • Overcoming roadblocks to cumulative explanatory theory in sociology.