The social lens : an invitation to social and sociological theory / Kenneth Allan.
Material type: TextPublisher: Los Angeles : Pine Forge Press/Sage Publications, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Edition: Second editionDescription: xvi, 661 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1412978343
- 9781412978347
- 301.01 22
- HM586 .A44 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Modernity and the sociological response -- 1. Sociology theory and the modern agenda -- 2. The evolution of society: Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) -- 3. Contradictions in capitalism: Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- 4. The irrationality of rationality: Max Weber (1864-1920) -- 5. the problem with diversity: Emile Durkheim -- 6. The modern person: George Herbert Mead and Georg Simmel -- 7. The challenges of gender and race:Charlotte Perkins Gilman and W. E. B. DuBois -- pt. II. Mid-Twentieth Century Sociological theory -- 8. Structural functionalism: Talcott Parsons and Robert K. Merton -- Conflict theory: Lewis Coser, Ralf Dahrendorf, and Randall Collins -- 10. Structures of racial and gender inequality: William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz -- 11. Exchange theory: George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins -- 12. The late modern person and the situation: Erving Goffman, Harold Garfinkel, and R. S. Perinbanayagam -- 13. Critical theory: Jurgen Habermas (1929- ) -- pt. III. Contemporary new visions and critiques -- 14. Toward a new vision of society: Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu -- 15. Globalizing systems: Immanuel Wallerstein and Manuel Castells -- 16. Upsetting reality: Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard -- 17. Politics of identity: Dorothy E. Smith, Patricia Hill Collins, and Cornel West
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