Contemporary sociological theory /
Sociology is the pursuit of systematic knowledge about social life, the way it is organized, how it changes, its creation in social action and its disruption and renewal in social conflict. Sociological theory is at once an integrated account of what is known and a guide to new inquiry. It is organi...
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
Wiley Blackwell,
[2022].
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I Symbolic Action : introduction
- 1 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life) / Erving Goffman
- 2 Symbolic Interactionism (from Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method) / Herbert Blumer-- 3 Interaction Ritual Chains (from Interaction Ritual Chains) / Randall Collins
- Part II Structure and Agency : introduction
- 4 A Theory of Group Solidarity (from Principles of Group Solidarity) / Michael Hechter
- 5 Metatheory: Explanation in Social Science (from Foundations of Social Theory) / James S. Coleman
- 6 Catnets (from Notes on the Constituents of Social Structure) / Harrison White
- 7 Some New Rules of Sociological Method (from New Rules For Sociological Method) / Anthony Giddens
- Part III Institutions : introduction
- 8 Economic Embeddedness / Mark Granovetter
- 9 The Iron Cage Revisited / Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powel
- Part IV Power and Inequality : introduction
- 10 The Power Elite (from The Power Elite) / C. Wright Mills
- 11 Durable Inequality (from Durable Inequality) / Charles Tilly
- 12 Power: A Radical View (from Power: A Radical View) / Steven Lukes
- 13 Societies as Organized Power Networks (from The Sources of Social Power, Vol I. A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760) / Michael Mann
- Part V The Sociological Theory of Michel Foucault : introduction
- 14 The History of Sexuality (from The History of Sexuality, Vol I: An Introduction) / Michel Foucault
- 15 Discipline and Punish (from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison) / Michel Foucault
- Part VI The Sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu : introduction
- 16 Social Space and Symbolic Space (from “Social Space and Symbolic Space: Introduction to a Japanese Reading of Distinction”) / Pierre Bourdieu
- 17 Structures, Habitus, Practices (from The Logic of Practice) / Pierre Bourdieu
- 18 The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed / Pierre Bourdieu
- 19 Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field (from Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field) / Pierre Bourdieu
- Part VII Race, Gender, and Intersectionality : introduction
- 20 The Theory of Racial Formation (from Racial Formation in the United States) / Michael Omi and Howard Winant
- 21 Intellectual Schools and the Atlanta School (from The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology) / Aldon D. Morris
- 22 The Paradoxes of Integration (from The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in Americas “Racial” Crisis) / Orlando Patterson
- 23 The Conceptual Practices of Power (from The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge) / Dorothy E. Smith
- 24 Black Feminist Epistemology (from Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment) / Patricia Hill Collins
- 25 Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex / Kimberle Crenshaw
- 26 Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research / Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree
- 27 The Politics of Erased Migrations / Rocio R. Garcia
- Part VIII The Sociological Theory of Jürgen Habermas : introduction
- 28 Modernity: An Unfinished Project (from Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity) / Jürgen Habermas
- 29 The Rationalization of the Lifeworld (from The Theory of Communicative Action Volume 2: Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason) / Jürgen Habermas
- 30 Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere (from Between Facts and Norms: Contribution to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy) / Jürgen Habermas
- Part IX Modernity : introduction
- 31 The Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint (from The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners and State Formation and Civilization) / Norbert Elias
- 32 We Have Never Been Modern (from We Have Never Been Modern) / Bruno Latour
- 33 The Civil Sphere (from The Civil Sphere) / Jeffrey C. Alexander
- 34 Addressing Recognition Gaps: Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality (from American Sociological Review) / Michèle Lamont
- Part X Crisis and Change : introduction
- 35 The Modern World-System in Crisis (from World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction) / Immanuel Wallerstein
- 36 Conceptualizing Simultaneity / Peggy Levitt and Nina Glick Schiller
- 37 Nationalism (from Nationalism) / Craig Calhoun
- 38 The End May Be Nigh, But For Whom? (from Does Capitalism Have a Future?) / Michael Mann.