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Contemporary Sociological Theory

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ISBN-10: 140514856X

ISBN-13: 9781405148566

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Joseph Gerteis, Craig Calhoun, James Moody, Steven Pfaff, Indermohan Virk

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This collection of sociological theory is a guide to contemporary perspectives and approaches. It includes material on topics such as symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, structuralism and the debates over modernity and postmodernity.
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Book details

List price: $54.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/2/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Notes on the Editors
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
Micro-Sociological Analysis
Introduction to Part I
The Phenomenology of the Social World [1932]
The Social Construction of Reality [1966]
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life [1959]
Symbolic Interactionism [1969]
Exchange and Rationality
Introduction to Part II
Social Behavior as Exchange [1958]
Exchange and Power in Social Life [1964]
The Logic of Collective Action [1965]
Rights to Act [1990]
Cooperation without Law or Trust [2005]
Institutional Analysis
Introduction to Part III
The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields [1983]
Economic Embeddedness [1985]
Catnets [1966]
The Sociological Theory of Michel Foucault
Introduction to Part IV
The History of Sexuality [1976]
Truth and Power [1977]
Discipline and Punish [1975]
The Sociological Theory of Anthony Giddens
Introduction to Part V
Some New Rules of Sociological Method [1976]
Agency, Structure [1979]
The Consequences of Modernity [1990]
The Sociological Theory of Pierre Bourdieu
Introduction to Part VI
Social Space and Symbolic Space [1994]
Structures, Habitus, Practices [1994]
The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed [1993]
Race, Gender, and Difference
Introduction to Part VII
The Conceptual Practices of Power [1990]
Black Feminist Epistemology [1990]
Black Skin, White Masks [1952]
The Paradoxes of Integration [1997]
The Sociological Theory of Jurgen Habermas
Introduction to Part VIII
Modernity: An Unfinished Project [1980]
The Rationalization of the Lifeworld [1981]
Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere [1996]
Modernity and Postmodernity
Introduction to Part IX
The Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint [1937]
Modernity and the Holocaust [1989]
We Have Never Been Modern [1991]
The Modern World-System in Crisis [2004]
Index