Contemporary sociological theory /

Contemporary sociological theory / edited by Craig Calhoun [and others]. - Second edition. - xii, 489 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Complements Classical sociological theory.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The phenomenology of the social world / Alfred Schutz -- The social construction of reality / Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann -- The presentation of self in everyday life / Erving Goffman -- Symbolic interactionism / Herbert Blumer -- Social behavior as exchange / George C. Homans -- Exchange and power in social life / Peter M. Blau -- The logic of collective action / Mancur Olson -- Rights to act / James S. Coleman -- Cooperation without law or trust / Karen S. Cook, Russell Hardin, Margaret Levi -- The iron cage revisited : institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields / Paul J. Dimaggio and Walter L. Powell - Economic embeddedness / Mark Granovetter --Catnets / Harrison White -- The history of sexuality / Michel Foucault -- Truth and power / Michel Foucault -- Discipline and punish / Michel Foucault -- Some new rules of sociological method / Anthony Giddens -- Agency, structure / Anthony Giddens -- The consequences of modernity / Anthony Giddens -- Social space and symbolic space / Pierre Bourdieu -- Structures, habitus, practices / Pierre Bourdieu -- The field of cultural production, or, The economic world reversed / Pierre Bourdieu -- The conceptual practices of power / Dorothy E. Smith -- Black feminist epistemology / Patricia Hill Collins -- Black skin, white masks / Frantz Fanon -- The paradoxes of integration / Orlando Patterson - Modernity : an unfinished project / Jurgen Habermas -- The rationalization of the lifeworld / Jurgen Habermas -- Civil society and the political public sphere / Jurgen Habermas -- The social constraint towards self-constraint / Norbert Elias -- Modernity and the Holocaust / Zygmunt Bauman -- We have never been modern / Bruno Latour -- The modern world-system in crisis / Immanuel Wallerstein.

"This meticulous collection of contemporary sociological theory is the definitive guide to current perspectives and approaches in the field, examining current key topics in the field such as such as symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, structuralism, network theory, critical theory, feminist theory, and the debates over modernity and postmodernity. Includes the work of major figures including Foucault, Giddens, Bourdieu, Bauman, and Habermas Organized thematically, with editorial introductions to put the readings into theoretical perspective New selected readings bring the book up to date"--Publisher description.

140514856X 9781405148566

2006023488


Sociology--History--20th century.
Sociology--Philosophy

HM447 / .C66 2007

301.01

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