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| List of Boxes | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction to Sociological Theory | |
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| Creating Sociological Theory | |
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| Defining Sociological Theory | |
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| Creating Sociological Theory: A More Realistic View | |
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| Multicultural Social Theory | |
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| Overview of the Book | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Classical Theories I | |
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| Emile Durkheim: From Mechanical to Organic Solidarity | |
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| Two Types of Solidarity | |
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| Changes in Dynamic Density | |
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| Collective Conscience | |
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| Law: Repressive and Restitutive | |
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| Anomie | |
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| Karl Marx: From Capitalism to Communism | |
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| Human Potential | |
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| Alienation | |
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| Capitalism | |
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| Communism | |
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| Max Weber: The Rationalization of Society | |
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| Social Action | |
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| Behavior and Action | |
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| Types of Action | |
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| Types of Rationality | |
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| The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | |
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| Confucianism, Hinduism, and Capitalism | |
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| Authority Structures and Rationalization | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Classical Theories II | |
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| Georg Simmel: The Growing Tragedy of Culture | |
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| Association | |
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| Forms and Types | |
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| Consciousness | |
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| Group Size | |
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| Distance and the Stranger | |
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| Distance and Value | |
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| Objective and Subjective Culture | |
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| Division of Labor | |
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| Thorstein Veblen: Increasing Control of Business over Industry | |
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| Business | |
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| Industry | |
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| George Herbert Mead: Social Behaviorism | |
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| The Act | |
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| Gestures | |
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| Significant Symbols and Language | |
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| The Self | |
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| I and Me | |
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| W.E.B. Du Bios: Race and Racism in Modern Society | |
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| Race | |
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| The Veil and Double-Consciousness | |
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| Economics and Marxism | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Contemporary Grand Theories I | |
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| Structural Functionalism | |
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| The Functional Theory of Stratification and Its Critics | |
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| Talcott Parsons's Structural Functionalism | |
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| Robert Merton's Structural Functionalism | |
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| Conflict Theory | |
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| The Work of Ralf Dahrendorf | |
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| Authority | |
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| Groups, Conflict, and Change | |
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| General System Theory | |
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| The Work of Niklas Luhmann | |
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| System and Environment | |
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| Autopoiesis | |
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| Differentiation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Contemporary Grand Theories II | |
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| Neo-Marxian Theory | |
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| Critical Theory and the Emergence of the Culture Industry | |
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| Neo-Marxian Spatial Analysis | |
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| The Civilizing Process | |
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| Examples of the Civilizing Process | |
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| Explaining the Changes: Lengthening Dependency Chains | |
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| A Case Study: Fox Hunting | |
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| The Colonization of the Lifeworld | |
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| Lifeworld, System, and Colonization | |
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| Rationalization of System and Lifeworld | |
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| The Juggernaut of Modernity | |
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| The Juggernaut | |
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| Space and Time | |
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| Reflexivity | |
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| Insecurity and Risks | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Contemporary Theories of Everyday Life | |
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| Symbolic Interactionism | |
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| Dramaturgy | |
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| Dramaturgy | |
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| Impression Management | |
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| Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis | |
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| Defining Ethnomethodology | |
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| Accounts | |
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| Some Examples | |
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| Accomplishing Gender | |
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| Exchange Theory | |
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| The Exchange Theory of George Homans | |
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| Basic Propositions | |
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| Rational Choice Theory | |
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| A Skeletal Model | |
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| Foundations of Social Theory | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Contemporary Integrative Theories | |
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| A More Integrated Exchange Theory | |
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| Exchange Relationships and Networks | |
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| Power-Dependence | |
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| A More Integrative Exchange Theory | |
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| Structuration Theory | |
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| Elements of Structuration Theory | |
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| Culture and Agency | |
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| Habitus and Field | |
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| Bridging Subjectivism and Objectivism | |
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| Habitus | |
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| Field | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Contemporary Feminist Theories | |
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| The Basic Theoretical Questions | |
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| The Classical Roots | |
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| Contemporary Feminist Theories | |
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| Gender Difference | |
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| General Feminist Theories of Difference | |
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| Sociological Theories of Difference | |
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| Gender Inequality | |
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| Gender Oppression | |
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| Structural Oppression | |
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| Toward a Feminist Sociological Theory | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Postmodern Grand Theories | |
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| The Transition from Industrial to Postindustrial Society | |
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| Increasing Governmentality (and Other Grand Theories) | |
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| Increasing Governmentality | |
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| Other Grand Theories | |
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| Postmodernity as Modernity's Coming of Age | |
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| Learning to Live with Ambivalence? | |
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| Postmodern Ethics | |
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| The Rise of Consumer Society, Loss of Symbolic Exchange, and Increase in Simulations | |
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| From Producer to Consumer Society | |
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| The Loss of Symbolic Exchange and the Increase in Simulations | |
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| The Consumer Society and the New Means of Consumption | |
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| Queer Theory: Sex and Sexuality | |
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| The Heterosexual/Homosexual Binary | |
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| Performing Sex | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Globalization Theory | |
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| Major Contemporary Theorists on Globalization | |
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| Anthony Giddens on the "Runaway World" of Globalization | |
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| Ulrich Beck and the Politics of Globalization | |
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| Zygmunt Bauman on the Human Consequences of Globalization | |
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| Cultural Theory | |
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| Cultural Differentialism | |
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| Cultural Convergence | |
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| Cultural Hybridization | |
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| Economic Theory | |
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| Neo-Liberalism | |
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| Critiquing Neo-Liberalism | |
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| Neo-Marxian Theoretical Alternatives to Neo-Liberalism | |
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| Transnational Capitalism | |
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| Political Theory | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Permission and Source Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |