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List of Timelines, Boxes, and Topics | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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How to Use This Book | |
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Introduction: Welcome to Sociological Theory | |
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Analyzing Social Life | |
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Societal Transformation and the Origins of Sociology | |
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The Establishment of Sociology | |
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The Sociological Craft in the Nineteenth Century | |
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Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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Karl Marx | |
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Expansion of Capitalism | |
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Marxs Theory of History | |
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Human Nature | |
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Capitalism as a Distinctive Social Form | |
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Wage-Labor | |
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The Division of Labor and Alienation | |
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Economic Inequality | |
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Ideology and Power | |
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Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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Emile Durkheim | |
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Durkheims Methodological Rules | |
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The Nature of Society | |
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Societal Transformation and Social Cohesion | |
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Traditional Society | |
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Modern Society | |
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Social Conditions of Suicide | |
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Religion and the Sacred | |
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Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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Max Weber | |
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Sociology: Understanding Social Action | |
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Culture and Economic Activity | |
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Ideal Types | |
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Social Action | |
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Power, Authority, and Domination | |
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Social Stratification | |
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Modernity and Competing Values | |
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Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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Structural-Functionalism: Talcott Parsons and Robert Merton | |
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Talcott Parsons | |
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The Social System | |
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Socialization and Societal Integration | |
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Social Differentiation, Culture, and the Secularization of Protestantism | |
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Pattern Variables | |
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Modernization Theory | |
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Stratification and Inequality | |
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Robert Mertons Middle-Range Theory | |
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Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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The Frankfurt School: Technology, Culture, and Politics | |
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Dialectic of Enlightenment | |
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Mass Culture and Consumption | |
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Politics: One-Dimensional Rationality | |
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Jurgen Habermas: The State and Society | |
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Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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Conflict, Power, and Dependency in Macro-Societal Processes | |
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Ralf Dahrendorfs Theory of Group Conflict | |
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C. Wright Mills | |
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Dependency Theory: Neo-Marxist Critiques of Economic Development | |
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Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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Exchange, Exchange Network, and Rational Choice Theories | |
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Exchange Theory | |
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Exchange Network Theory | |
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Rational Choice Theory | |
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Analytical Marxism | |
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Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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Symbolic Interactionism | |
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Development of the Self through Social Interaction | |
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The Premises of Symbolic Interactionism | |
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Erving Goffman: Social Exchange as Ritualized Social Interaction | |
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Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnographic Research | |
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Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology | |
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Phenomenology | |
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Ethnomethodology | |
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Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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Feminist Theories | |
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Consciousness of Womens Inequality | |
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Standpoint Theories1: Dorothy Smith and the Relations of Ruling | |
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Standpoint Theories 2: Patricia Hill Collins Black Womens Standpoint | |
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Sociology of Emotion | |
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Arlie Hochschild: Emotional Labor | |
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Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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Theorizing Sexuality and the Body | |
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Michel Foucault | |
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Sexuality and Queer Theory | |
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Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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Sociological Theories of Race and Racism | |
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Racial Otherness | |
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Social Change, Race, and Racism | |
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Slavery, Colonialism, and Racial Formation | |
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William Du Bois: Slavery and Racial Inequality in the US | |
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Race and Class | |
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Race, Community, and Democracy | |
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Culture and the New Racism | |
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Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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The Social Reproduction of Inequality: Pierre Bourdieus Theory of Class and Culture | |
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Social Stratification | |
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Family and School in the Production of Cultural Capital | |
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Taste and Everyday Culture | |
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Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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Postmodernity | |
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Critique of the Modern | |
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Postmodern Culture | |
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Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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Globalization | |
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Defining Globalization | |
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Economic Globalization | |
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Immanuel Wallerstein: The Modern World-System | |
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From World-Economic to Global Inequality | |
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Political Globalization: The Nation-State in the New Order | |
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Cultural Globalization | |
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Cities and Migration in a Globalizing Society | |
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Globalization of Risk | |
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Political Mobilization in the Globalizing Society | |
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Summary | |
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Glossary | |
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Glossary | |
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References | |
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Index | |