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• Cover
• Preface
• Preface to Second Edition
• 1 Theorists and Historians
• A Dialogue of the Deaf
• The Differentiation of History and Theory
• The Dismissal of the Past
• The Rise of Social History
• The Convergence of Theory and History
• 2 Models and Methods
• Comparison
• Models and Types
• Quantitative Methods
• The Social Microscope
• 3 Central Concepts
• Roles and Performances
• Sex and Gender
• Family and Kinship
• Communities and Identities
• Class and Status
• Social Mobility and Social Distinction
• Consumption and Exchange
• Cultural and Social Capital
• Patrons, Clients and Corruption
• Power and Political Culture
• Civil Society and the Public Sphere
• Centres and Peripheries
• Hegemony and Resistance
• Social Protest and Social Movements
• Mentalities, Ideologies, Discourses
• Communication and Reception
• Postcolonialism and Cultural Hybridity
• Orality and Textuality
• Myth and Memory
• 4 Central Problems
• Rationality versus Relativism
• Concepts of Culture
• Consensus versus Conflict
• Facts versus Fictions
• Structures versus Agents
• Functionalism
• The Example of Venice
• Structuralism
• The Return of the Actor
• 5 Social Theory and Social Change
• Spencer’s Model
• Marx’s Model
• A Third Way?
• Essays in Synthesis
• Patterns of Population
• Patterns of Culture
• Encounters
• The Importance of Events
• Generations
• 6 Postmodernity and Postmodernism
• Destabilization
• Cultural Constructions
• Decentring
• Beyond Eurocentrism?
• Globalization
• To Conclude
• Bibliography
• Index
• End User License Agreement