Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots

Name: Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots
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ISBN: 9780071107327

ISBN-10: 0071107320

ISBN-13: 9780071107327

Edition: N/A

Authors: George Ritzer

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This text is an introductory text to sociology theory. It defines the nature of sociology theory, discusses some of the controversy surrounding the traditional definition of theory, analyses the alternate perspective and offers non-traditional (multicultural) examples.

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List price: $51.59
Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
Size: 5.46" wide x 7.85" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.814

Introduction Creating Sociological Theory Defining Sociological Theory Creating Sociological Theory: A More Realistic View Overview of the Book
Classical Theories-I Emile Durkheim
Classical Theories-II Georg Simmel Thorstein Veblen George Herbert Mead
Contemporary Grand Theories-I Structural Functionalism Conflict Theory Systems Theory
Contemporary Grand Theories-II Neo-Marxian Theory The Civilizing Process Colonizing the Lifeworld The Juggernaut of Modernity
Contemporary Theories of Everyday Life Symbolic Interactionism Dramaturgy Ethnomethodology Exchange Theory Rational Choice Theory
Contemporary Integrative Theories A More Integrated Exchange Theory Structuration Theory Culture and Agency Habitus and Field
Contemporary Feminist Theories
Postmodern Grand Theories The Transition from Industrial to Postindustrial Society Increasing Governmentality (and other Grand Theories) Postmodernity as Modernity’s Coming of Age The Rise of Consumer Society, Loss of Symbolic Exchange, and Increase in Simulations The Consumer Society and the New Means of Consumption Dromology Feminism and Postmodern Social Theory
Globalization Theory Major Contemporary Theorists on Globalization Cultural Theory Economic Theory Political Theory
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