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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: What is Theory, and Why does it Change? | |
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| Periods of Social Theory | |
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| The Organization of the Book | |
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| Changes | |
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| 1968-2009: What Happened? | |
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| Why 1968? | |
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| A New Global Order: Globalization, Neoliberalism and Market Expansion, and Hyper-Industrialization | |
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| Issues without Borders: Population Growth, Urbanization, Health and Environmental Problems, and Regional Conflicts | |
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| The Emerging Distribution of Economic Inequality | |
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| Cultural Consequences: Postmodern Culture and Ironic Hopelessness | |
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| How and Why Did All These Changes Happen? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Changes in Theory | |
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| Introduction: Making Theories | |
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| How and Why Have Sociological Theories Changed in the Past Forty Years? | |
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| Toward Contemporary Theories | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Transitional Giants | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Erving Goffman (1922-1982) | |
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| Major Works, Ideas, and Concepts | |
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| Total Institutions and Labels | |
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| Interaction Order and Behavior | |
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| Frames of Reference and Discourse | |
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| The Politics and Feeling-Tone of Goffman's Work | |
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| Rupture and Continuity: Goffman as a Transitional Giant and Postmodernist | |
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| Michel Foucault (1926-1984) | |
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| Major Works, Ideas, and Concepts | |
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| Foucault and the Traditions of Social Theory | |
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| Foucault's Impact and Method | |
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| Foucault's Politics | |
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| Conclusion: Foucault and the Transition to Contemporary Theory | |
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| Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) | |
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| The Craft of Sociology | |
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| Habitus, Body, Practice | |
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| Symbolic Power, Symbolic Violence, and Misrecognition | |
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| Fields, Spaces, and Capitals | |
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| Taste, Distinction, and Naturalized Categories | |
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| Public Intellectuals and Politics | |
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| The Critique of Neoliberalism | |
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| Conclusion: A Note on Foucault and Bourdieu | |
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| Stuart Hall (1932-) | |
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| Hegemony | |
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| Ideology | |
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| Articulation | |
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| Overdetermination | |
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| False Consciousness | |
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| The Function of Common Sense | |
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| Interpellation and Ideological Subjects | |
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| Hegemony, Ideology, and Societies Structured in Dominance | |
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| Race: The Floating Signifier | |
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| Media: The Politics of Representation | |
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| Critical Politics of Contesting Images | |
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| Culture as the Arena of Struggle | |
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| Identity | |
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| The Move to Ethnicity | |
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| Thinking about Multiculturalism | |
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| Intellectual Labor and Politics of Resistance | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Uneven Impact of Contemporary Theory on Sociology | |
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| Legacies, Reinterpretations, and New Paradigms | |
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| Beyond Legacies: What's New? | |
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| What Will Happen Next? | |
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| References and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Note to Readers | |
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| General Theoretical References (with Jos� Soltero) | |
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| References and Reading Suggestions for the Transitional Giants | |
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| Erving Goffman | |
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| Michel Foucault | |
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| Pierre Bourdieu | |
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| Stuart Hall | |
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| Two Specialized Areas: References and Reading Suggestions | |
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| Theoretical Development in the Sociology of Families (prepared by Tait Runnfeldt Medina and Julie Artis) | |
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| Sociology of Health (prepared by Grace Budrys) | |
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| Index | |