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| Each chapter ends with Suggestions for Further Study | |
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| Individuality, Society, and Identity: Cornerstones of Sociological Reasoning | |
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| Vivifying the Mundane: The Sociological Imagination | |
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| The Sociological Imagination | |
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| Individual v. Social Problems | |
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| The Sociology of Celebrities: Individuals in Social Context | |
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| The American Preoccupation with Individualism in Cultural, Political, & Economic Life | |
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| The Sociology of Identities | |
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| Individuals as Webs of Group Affiliation | |
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| Social Identities: Repertoire Selection, Multiple Consciousness, and Ambiguity | |
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| The Contested Terrain of Sociological Knowledge | |
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| Some Cautionary Notes about Sociology v. Psychology | |
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| The Reality of the Social: Social Facts | |
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| The Logical Gulf Between Fact and Value Statements | |
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| Muddying the Waters | |
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| The Politics of Social Knowledge | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Social Theories | |
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| Their Interplay and Contradictions | |
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| The Nature and Relevance of Social Theories | |
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| Theories as Paradigms | |
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| Theoretical Reasoning: Inductive and Deductive | |
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| Four Broad Types of Social Theory | |
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| Rational Choice Theories: Individuals Pursuing Interests | |
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| Where Do Desires Come From? | |
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| The Free-Rider Problem | |
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| Are Rational People Honest? | |
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| Do People Choose to be Unequal? | |
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| Functional Theories: Harmony and Necessary Differences | |
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| Basic Functionalist Imagery | |
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| Is Social Inequality Simply Necessary? | |
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| Symbolic Interactionist and Social Constructionist Theories | |
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| Interaction, Meaning, and Everyday Life | |
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| Mind, Self, and Society | |
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| Modern Symbolic Interactionism | |
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| Symbolic Interactionism/Constructionism: Are the Trees Hiding the Forest? | |
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| Conflict Theories: Arenas of Power and Inequality | |
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| The Interplay of Conflict Theory with Other Perspectives | |
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| Karl Marx's Enduring Legacy | |
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| Weber's Multidimensional Conflict Theory | |
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| Conflict Theories: Too Much Pessimism, or Sober Realism? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Culture, Structure, and Interaction: Unraveling the Fibers of Everyday Life | |
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| Distinguishing Social Structure, Culture, and Interaction | |
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| Social Structural Determinism or Cultural Autonomy | |
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| Beyond Good and Evil: Religion as an Emblem of Society | |
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| Beyond Cold Hard Cash: The Sociology of Money | |
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| Understanding Culture and Social Power | |
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| Cashing in on Culture: The Flow of Cultural, Social, and Economic Capital | |
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| Roads Between High Culture and Popular Culture | |
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| Interpreting Pink Flamingoes: Everyday Expressions of Social Positions | |
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| "Lions & Tigers & Bears--Oh My!": The Cultural and Political Construction of Social Problems | |
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| Cultural Production, Distribution, and Interpretation | |
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| A Basic Model of Cultural Production Processes | |
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| Making Chili Peppers | |
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| Organizational Processes in the Rise of a Band | |
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| Pets or Meat? The Interpretation of Cultural Products | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Power and Authority: In Social Movements, States, and Organization | |
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| A Sociological Perspective on Power | |
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| The Power Prism and its Refractions: An analytical Tool | |
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| Social Power and Social Movements | |
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| Reading Power into Political Protests | |
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| Power, States, and Legitimacy | |
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| Spreading Social Power in Authoritarian Regimes | |
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| Theaters of War | |
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| The Social Construction of State Legitimacy | |
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| Power in Organizations | |
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| Power and Control in Work Places | |
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| Bureaucratic Organizations and Abstract Social Power | |
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| The Symbolic Architecture of Organizational Power | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Globalization: Contep | |