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| Biographical and Autobiographical Sketches | |
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| Preface | |
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| Classical Sociological Theory | |
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| A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early Years | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Social Forces in the Development of Sociological Theory | |
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| Political Revolutions | |
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| The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Capitalism | |
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| The Rise of Socialism | |
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| Feminism | |
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| Urbanization | |
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| Religious Change | |
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| The Growth of Science | |
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| Intellectual Forces and the Rise of Sociological Theory | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| The Conservative Reaction to the Enlightenment | |
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| The Development of French Sociology | |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) | |
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| Claude Henri Saint-Simon (1760-1825) | |
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| Auguste Comte (1798-1857) | |
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| Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) | |
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| The Development of German Sociology | |
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| The Roots and Nature of the Theories of Karl Marx (1818-1883) | |
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| The Roots and Nature of the Theories of Max Weber (1864-1920) and Georg Simmel (1858-1918) | |
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| The Origins of British Sociology | |
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| Political Economy, Ameliorism, and Social Evolution | |
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| Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) | |
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| The Key Figure in Early Italian Sociology | |
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| Turn-of-the-Century Developments in European Marxism | |
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| Karl Marx | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Dialectic | |
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| Dialectical Method | |
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| Fact and Value | |
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| Reciprocal Relations | |
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| Past, Present, Future | |
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| No Inevitabilities | |
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| Actors and Structures | |
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| Human Potential | |
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| Labor | |
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| Alienation | |
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| The Structures of Capitalist Society | |
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| Commodities | |
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| Fetishism of Commodities | |
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| Capital, Capitalists, and the Proletariat | |
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| Exploitation | |
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| Class Conflict | |
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| Capitalism as a Good Thing | |
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| Materialist Conception of History | |
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| Cultural Aspects of Capitalist Society | |
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| Ideology | |
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| Religion | |
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| Marx's Economics: A Case Study | |
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| Communism | |
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| Criticisms | |
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| Emile Durkheim | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Social Facts | |
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| Material and Nonmaterial Social Facts | |
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| Types of Nonmaterial Social Facts | |
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| The Division of Labor in Society | |
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| Mechanical and Organic Solidarity | |
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| Dynamic Density | |
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| Repressive and Restitutive Law | |
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| Normal and Pathological | |
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| Justice | |
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| Suicide | |
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| The Four Types of Suicide | |
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| Suicide Rates and Social Reform | |
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| The Elementary Forms of Religious Life | |
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| Early and Late Durkheimian Theory | |
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| Theory of Religion-The Sacred and the Profane | |
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| Why Primitive? | |
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| Totemism | |
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| Sociology of Knowledge | |
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| Collective Effervescence | |
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| Moral Education and Social Reform | |
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| Morality | |
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| Moral Education | |
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| Occupational Associations | |
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| Criticisms | |
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| Functionalism and Positivism | |
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| Other Criticisms | |
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| Max Weber | |
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| Methodology | |
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| History and Sociology | |
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| Verstehen | |
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| Causality | |
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| Ideal Types | |
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| Values | |
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| Substantive Sociology | |
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| What Is Sociology? | |
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| Social Action | |
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| Class, Status, and Party | |
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| Structures of Authority | |
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| Rationalization | |
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| Religion and the Rise of Capitalism | |
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| Criticisms | |
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| Georg Simmel | |
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| Primary Concerns | |
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| Levels and Areas of Concern | |
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| Dialectical Thinking | |
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| Individual Consciousness | |
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| Social Interaction ("Association") | |
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| Interaction: Forms and Types | |
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| Social Structures | |
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| Objective Culture | |
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| The Philosophy of Money | |
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| Money and Value | |
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| Money, Reification, and Rationalization | |
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| Negative Effects | |
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| The Tragedy of Culture | |
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| Secrecy: A Case Study in Simmel's Sociology | |
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| Secrecy and Social Relationships | |
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| Other Thoughts on Secrecy | |
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| Criticisms | |
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| Modern Sociological Theory: The Major Schools | |
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| A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years | |
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| Early American Sociological Theory | |
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| Politics | |
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| Social Change and Intellectual Currents | |
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| The Chicago School | |
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| Women in Early Sociology | |
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| W.E.B. Du Bois and Race Theory | |
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| Sociological Theory to Midcentury | |
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| The Rise of Harvard, the Ivy League, and Structural Functionalism | |
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| Developments in Marxian Theory | |
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| Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge | |
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| Sociological Theory from Midcentury | |
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| Structural Functionalism: Peak and Decline | |
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| Radical Sociology in America: C. Wright Mills | |
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| The Development of Conflict Theory | |
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| The Birth of Exchange Theory | |
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| Dramaturgical Analysis: The Work of Erving Goffman | |
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| The Development of Sociologies of Everyday Life | |
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| The Rise and Fall (?) of Marxian Sociology | |
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| The Challenge of Feminist Theory | |
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| Structuralism and Poststructuralism | |
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| Late-Twentieth-Century Developments in Sociological Theory | |
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| Micro-Macro Integration | |
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| Agency-Structure Integration | |
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| Theoretical Syntheses | |
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| Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity | |
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| The Defenders of Modernity | |
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| The Proponents of Postmodernity | |
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| Sodal Theory in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Theories of Identity | |
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| Theories of Consumption | |
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| Theories of Globalization | |
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| Theories of Science, Technology, and Society | |
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| Structural Functionalism, Systems Theory, and Conflict Theory | |
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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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| The Major Criticisms | |
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| Systems Theory | |
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| System and Environment | |
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| Autopoiesis | |
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| Differentiation | |
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| Conflict Theory | |
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| The Work of Ralf Dahrendorf | |
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| The Major Criticisms and Efforts to Deal with Them | |
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| A More Integrative Conflict Theory | |
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| Varieties of Neo-Marxian Theory | |
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| Economic Determinism | |
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| Hegelian Marxism | |
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| Georg Luk�cs | |
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| Antonio Gramsci | |
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| Critical Theory | |
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| The Major Critiques of Social and Intellectual Life | |
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| The Major Contributions | |
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| Criticisms of Critical Theory | |
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| The Ideas of Jurgen Habermas | |
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| Critical Theory Today: The Work of Axel Honneth | |
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| Later Developments in Cultural Critique | |
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| Neo-Marxian Economic Sociology | |
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| Capital and Labor | |
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| Fordism and Post-Fordism | |
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| Historically Oriented Marxism | |
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| The Modern World-System | |
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| Neo-Marxian Spatial Analysis | |
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| The Production of Space | |
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| Trialectics | |
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| Spaces of Hope | |
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| Post-Marxist Theory | |
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| Analytical Marxism | |
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| Postmodern Marxian Theory | |
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| After Marxism | |
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| Criticisms of Post-Marxism | |
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| Symbolic Interactionism | |
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| The Major Historical Roots | |
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| Pragmatism | |
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| Behaviorism | |
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| Between Reductionism and Sociologism | |
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| The Ideas of George Herbert Mead | |
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| The Priority of the Social | |
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| The Act | |
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| Gestures | |
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| Significant Symbols | |
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| Mind | |
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| Self | |
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| Society | |
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| Symbolic Interactionism: The Basic Principles | |
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| Capacity for Thought | |
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| Thinking and Interaction | |
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| Learning Meanings and Symbols | |
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| Action and Interaction | |
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| Making Choices | |
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| Groups and Societies | |
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| The Self and the Work of Erving Goffman | |
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| The Self | |
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| The Sociology of Emotions | |
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| What Is Emotion? | |
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| Shame: The Social Emotion | |
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| The Invisibility of Shame | |
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| Emotion Management and Emotion Work | |
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| Feeling Rules | |
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| Commercialization of Feeling | |
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| Criticisms | |
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| The Future of Symbolic Interactionism | |
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| Ethnomethodology | |
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| Defining Ethnomethodology | |
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| The Diversification of Ethnomethodology | |
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| Studies of Institutional Settings | |
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| Conversation Analysis | |
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| Some Early Examples | |
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| Breaching Experiments | |
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| Accomplishing Gender | |
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| Conversation Analysis | |
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| Telephone Conversations: Identification and Recognition | |
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| Initiating Laughter | |
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| Generating Applause | |
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| Booing | |
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| The Interactive Emergence of Sentences and Stories | |
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| Integration of Talk and Nonvocal Activities | |
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| Doing Shyness (and Self-Confidence) | |
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| Studies of Institutions | |
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| Job Interviews | |
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| Executive Negotiations | |
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| Calls to Emergency Centers | |
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| Dispute Resolution in Mediation Hearings | |
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| Criticisms of Traditional Sociology | |
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| Separated from the Social | |
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| Confusing Topic and Resource | |
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| Stresses and Strains in Ethnomethodology | |
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| Synthesis and Integration | |
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| Ethnomethodology and the Micro-Macro Order | |
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| Exchange, Network, and Rational Choice Theories | |
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| Exchange Theory | |
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| Behaviorism | |
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| Rational Choke Theory | |
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| The Exchange Theory of George Homans | |
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| Peter Blau's Exchange Theory | |
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| The Work of Richard Emerson and His Disciples | |
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| Network Theory | |
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| Basic Concerns and Principles | |
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| A More Integrative Network Theory | |
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| Network Exchange Theory | |
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| Structural Power | |
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| Strong and Weak Power Structures | |
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| Rational Choice Theory | |
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| Foundations of Social Theory | |
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| Criticisms | |
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| Contemporary Feminist Theory | |
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| Feminism's Basic Questions | |
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| Historical Framing: Feminism, Sociology, and Gender | |
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| Varieties of Contemporary Feminist Theory | |
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| Gender Difference | |
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| Sociological Theories: Institutional and Interactionist | |
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| Gender Inequality | |
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| Gender Oppression | |
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| Structural Oppression | |
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| Feminism and Postmodernism | |
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| Feminist Sociological Theorizing | |
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| A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge | |
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| The Macro-Social Order | |
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| The Micro-Social Order | |
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| Subjectivity | |
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| Integrative Sociological Theory | |
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| Micro-Macro and Agency-Structure Integration | |
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| Micro-Macro Integration | |
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| Micro-Macro Extremism | |
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| The Movement toward Micro-Macro Integration | |
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| Examples of Micro-Macro Integration | |
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| Back to the Future: Norbert Elias's Figurational Sociology | |
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| Agency-Structure Integration | |
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| Major Examples of Agency-Structure Integration | |
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| Major Differences in the Agency-Structure Literature | |
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| Agency-Structure and Micro-Macro Linkages: Fundamental Differences | |
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| From Modern to Postmodern Social Theory (and Beyond) | |
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| Contemporary Theories of Modernity | |
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| Classical Theorists on Modernity | |
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| The Juggernaut of Modernity | |
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| Modernity and Its Consequences | |
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| Modernity and Identity | |
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| Modernity and Intimacy | |
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| The Risk Society | |
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| Creating the Risks | |
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| Coping with the Risks | |
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| The Holocaust and Liquid Modernity | |
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| A Product of Modernity | |
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| The Role of Bureaucracy | |
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| The Holocaust and Rationalization | |
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| Liquid Modernity | |
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| Modernity's Unfinished Project | |
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| Habermas versus Postmodernists | |
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| Self, Society, and Religion | |
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| Modernity and the Self | |
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| Modernity's Social Imaginary | |
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| Religion in a Secular Age | |
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| Informationalism and the Network Society | |
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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, the Politics of Globalization, and Cosmopolitanism | |
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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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| Transnational Capitalism | |
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| Empire | |
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| Political Theory | |
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| Neoliberalism | |
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| Critiquing Neoliberalism | |
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| Other Theories | |
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| Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodern Social Theory | |
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| Structuralism | |
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| Roots in Linguistics | |
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| Anthropological Structuralism: Claude L�vi-Strauss | |
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| Structural Marxism | |
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| Poststructuralism | |
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| The Ideas of Michel Foucault | |
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| The Ideas of Giorgio Agamben | |
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| Postmodern Social Theory | |
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| Moderate Postmodern Social Theory: Fredric Jameson | |
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| Extreme Postmodern Social Theory: Jean Baudrillard | |
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| Criticisms and Post-Postmodern Social Theory | |
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| Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Critical Theories of Race and Racism | |
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| Queer Theory | |
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| What Is Queer Theory? | |
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| The Heterosexual/Homosexual Binary | |
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| Performing Sex | |
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| Critiques | |
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| Actor-Network Theory, Posthumanism, and Postsociality | |
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| Affect Theory | |
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| Basic Concepts | |
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| The Affective Field | |
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| The Ethics and Politics of Affect | |
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| Appendix Sociological Metatheorizing and a Metatheoretical Schema for Analyzing Sociological Theory | |
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| Metatheorizing in Sociology | |
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| Pierre Bourdieu's Reflexive Sociology | |
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| The Ideas of Thomas Kuhn | |
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| Sociology: A Multiple-Paradigm Science | |
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| The Social-Facts Paradigm | |
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| The Social-Definition Paradigm | |
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| The Social-Behavior Paradigm | |
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| Toward a More Integrated Sociological Paradigm | |
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| Levels of Social Analysis: An Overview | |
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| References | |
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| Credits | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |