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| List of Timelines, Boxes, and Topics | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Introduction: Welcome to Sociological Theory | |
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| Analyzing Social Life | |
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| Societal Transformation and the Origins of Sociology | |
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| The Establishment of Sociology | |
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| The Sociological Craft in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Karl Marx | |
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| Expansion of Capitalism | |
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| Marxs Theory of History | |
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| Human Nature | |
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| Capitalism as a Distinctive Social Form | |
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| Wage-Labor | |
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| The Division of Labor and Alienation | |
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| Economic Inequality | |
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| Ideology and Power | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Emile Durkheim | |
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| Durkheims Methodological Rules | |
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| The Nature of Society | |
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| Societal Transformation and Social Cohesion | |
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| Traditional Society | |
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| Modern Society | |
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| Social Conditions of Suicide | |
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| Religion and the Sacred | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Max Weber | |
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| Sociology: Understanding Social Action | |
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| Culture and Economic Activity | |
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| Ideal Types | |
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| Social Action | |
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| Power, Authority, and Domination | |
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| Social Stratification | |
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| Modernity and Competing Values | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Structural-Functionalism: Talcott Parsons and Robert Merton | |
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| Talcott Parsons | |
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| The Social System | |
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| Socialization and Societal Integration | |
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| Social Differentiation, Culture, and the Secularization of Protestantism | |
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| Pattern Variables | |
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| Modernization Theory | |
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| Stratification and Inequality | |
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| Robert Mertons Middle-Range Theory | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glossary | |
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| The Frankfurt School: Technology, Culture, and Politics | |
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| Dialectic of Enlightenment | |
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| Mass Culture and Consumption | |
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| Politics: One-Dimensional Rationality | |
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| Jurgen Habermas: The State and Society | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Conflict, Power, and Dependency in Macro-Societal Processes | |
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| Ralf Dahrendorfs Theory of Group Conflict | |
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| C. Wright Mills | |
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| Dependency Theory: Neo-Marxist Critiques of Economic Development | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Exchange, Exchange Network, and Rational Choice Theories | |
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| Exchange Theory | |
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| Exchange Network Theory | |
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| Rational Choice Theory | |
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| Analytical Marxism | |
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| Summary | |
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| Symbolic Interactionism | |
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| Development of the Self through Social Interaction | |
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| The Premises of Symbolic Interactionism | |
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| Erving Goffman: Social Exchange as Ritualized Social Interaction | |
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| Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnographic Research | |
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| Summary | |
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| Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology | |
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| Phenomenology | |
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| Ethnomethodology | |
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| Summary | |
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| Feminist Theories | |
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| Consciousness of Womens Inequality | |
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| Standpoint Theories1: Dorothy Smith and the Relations of Ruling | |
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| Standpoint Theories 2: Patricia Hill Collins Black Womens Standpoint | |
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| Sociology of Emotion | |
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| Arlie Hochschild: Emotional Labor | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Theorizing Sexuality and the Body | |
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| Michel Foucault | |
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| Sexuality and Queer Theory | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Sociological Theories of Race and Racism | |
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| Racial Otherness | |
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| Social Change, Race, and Racism | |
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| Slavery, Colonialism, and Racial Formation | |
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| William Du Bois: Slavery and Racial Inequality in the US | |
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| Race and Class | |
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| Race, Community, and Democracy | |
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| Culture and the New Racism | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Social Reproduction of Inequality: Pierre Bourdieus Theory of Class and Culture | |
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| Social Stratification | |
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| Family and School in the Production of Cultural Capital | |
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| Taste and Everyday Culture | |
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| Summary | |
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| Postmodernity | |
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| Critique of the Modern | |
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| Postmodern Culture | |
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| Summary | |
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| Globalization | |
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| Defining Globalization | |
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| Economic Globalization | |
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| Immanuel Wallerstein: The Modern World-System | |
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| From World-Economic to Global Inequality | |
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| Political Globalization: The Nation-State in the New Order | |
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| Cultural Globalization | |
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| Cities and Migration in a Globalizing Society | |
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| Globalization of Risk | |
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| Political Mobilization in the Globalizing Society | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |