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- COVER
- LIST OF BOXED FEATURES
- TIMELINES
- CONCEPTUAL BOXES
- CONTEMPORARY TOPICAL APPLICATIONS
- LIST OF ANALYTICAL PHOTOS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
- ABOUT THE WEBSITE
- INTRODUCTION SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: A VIBRANT, LIVING TRADITION
- ANALYZING EVERYDAY SOCIAL LIFE
- SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION AND THE ORIGINS OF SOCIOLOGY
- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AS SCIENCE: AUGUSTE COMTE AND HARRIET MARTINEAU
- SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND CONTEXTUAL STANDPOINTS: DU BOIS, DE TOCQUEVILLE, AND MARTINEAU
- SUMMARY
- POINTS TO REMEMBER
- GLOSSARY
- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER ONE: KARL MARX (1818–1883)
- EXPANSION OF CAPITALISM
- MARX’S THEORY OF HISTORY
- HUMAN NATURE
- CAPITALISM AS A DISTINCTIVE SOCIAL FORM
- THE DIVISION OF LABOR AND ALIENATION
- ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
- IDEOLOGY AND POWER
- SUMMARY
- POINTS TO REMEMBER
- GLOSSARY
- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER TWO: EMILE DURKHEIM (1858–1917)
- DURKHEIM’S METHODOLOGICAL RULES
- THE NATURE OF SOCIETY
- SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION AND SOCIAL COHESION
- TRADITIONAL SOCIETY
- MODERN SOCIETY
- SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF SUICIDE
- RELIGION AND THE SACRED
- SUMMARY
- POINTS TO REMEMBER
- GLOSSARY
- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER THREE: MAX WEBER (1864–1920)
- SOCIOLOGY: UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL ACTION
- CULTURE AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
- IDEAL TYPES
- SOCIAL ACTION
- POWER, AUTHORITY, AND DOMINATION
- SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
- MODERNITY AND COMPETING VALUES
- SUMMARY
- POINTS TO REMEMBER
- GLOSSARY
- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER FOUR: AMERICAN CLASSICS: THE CHICAGO SCHOOL, TALCOTT PARSONS, AND ROBERT MERTON
- THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY
- TALCOTT PARSONS
- THE SOCIAL SYSTEM
- SOCIALIZATION AND SOCIETAL INTEGRATION
- SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE SECULARIZATION OF PROTESTANTISM
- PATTERN VARIABLES
- MODERNIZATION THEORY
- STRATIFICATION AND INEQUALITY
- ROBERT MERTON
- NEOFUNCTIONALISM
- SUMMARY
- POINTS TO REMEMBER
- GLOSSARY: CHICAGO SCHOOL
- GLOSSARY: PARSONS
- GLOSSARY: MERTON
- GLOSSARY: LUHMANN
- GLOSSARY: ALEXANDER
- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER FIVE: CRITICAL THEORY
- THE SOCIETAL CRITIQUE OF HORKHEIMER, ADORNO, AND MARCUSE
- DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT
- MASS CULTURE AND CONSUMPTION
- POLITICS: UNIFORMITY AND CONTROL
- JÜRGEN HABERMAS: THE STATE AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
- SUMMARY
- POINTS TO REMEMBER
- GLOSSARY
- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER SIX: CONFLICT, POWER, AND DEPENDENCY IN MACRO‐SOCIETAL PROCESSES
- RALF DAHRENDORF’S THEORY OF GROUP CONFLICT
- C. WRIGHT MILLS: CLASS AND POWER
- DEPENDENCY THEORY: GUNDER FRANK’S AND CARDOSO’S NEO‐MARXIST CRITIQUES OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- SUMMARY
- POINTS TO REMEMBER
- GLOSSARY
- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER SEVEN: EXCHANGE, EXCHANGE NETWORK, AND RATIONAL CHOICE THEORIES
- EXCHANGE THEORY: GEORGE HOMANS AND PETER BLAU
- EXCHANGE NETWORK THEORY: RICHARD EMERSON, KAREN COOK, MARK GRANOVETTER
- ACTOR–NETWORK THEORY (ANT): BRUNO LATOUR
- RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY AND ITS CRITIQUE: JAMES COLEMAN, GARY BECKER, PAULA ENGLAND
- ANALYTICAL MARXISM
- SUMMARY
- POINTS TO REMEMBER
- GLOSSARY: EXCHANGE THEORY
- GLOSSARY: EXCHANGE NETWORK THEORY
- GLOSSARY: ACTOR–NETWORK THEORY (ANT)
- GLOSSARY: RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY
- GLOSSARY: ANALYTICAL MARXISM
- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER EIGHT: SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
- DEVELOPMENT OF THE SELF THROUGH SOCIAL INTERACTION: G. H. MEAD AND C. H. COOLEY
- THE PREMISES OF SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM: HERBERT BLUMER
- ERVING GOFFMAN: SOCIETY AS RITUALIZED SOCIAL INTERACTION
- SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM AND ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
- SUMMARY
- POINTS TO REMEMBER
- GLOSSARY
- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER NINE: PHENOMENOLOGY AND ETHNOMETHODOLOGY
- PHENOMENOLOGY: ALFRED SCHUTZ, PETER BERGER, AND THOMAS LUCKMANN
- ETHNOMETHODOLOGY: HAROLD GARFINKEL
- GENDER AS AN ACCOMPLISHED REALITY: CANDACE WEST AND DON ZIMMERMAN
- SUMMARY
- POINTS TO REMEMBER
- GLOSSARY: PHENOMENOLOGY
- GLOSSARY: ETHNOMETHODOLOGY
- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER TEN: FEMINIST THEORIES
- CONSCIOUSNESS OF WOMEN’S INEQUALITY: CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
- STANDPOINT THEORY: DOROTHY SMITH AND THE RELATIONS OF RULING
- MASCULINITIES: R. W. CONNELL
- PATRICIA HILL COLLINS: BLACK WOMEN’S STANDPOINT
- SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTION
- ARLIE HOCHSCHILD: EMOTIONAL LABOR
- SUMMARY
- POINTS TO REMEMBER
- GLOSSARY
- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: SEX, BODIES, TRUTH, AND POWER
- DISCIPLINING THE BODY
- SEX AND QUEER THEORY
- SUMMARY
- POINTS TO REMEMBER
- GLOSSARY
- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER TWELVE: POSTCOLONIAL THEORIES AND RACE
- RACIAL OTHERNESS: EDWARD SAID, FRANTZ FANON
- NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF COLONIALISM: R. W. CONNELL
- RACE AND RACISM
- CULTURAL HISTORIES AND POSTCOLONIAL IDENTITIES: STUART HALL
- RACE AND CLASS: WILLIAM J. WILSON, CORNELL WEST
- SCARRING OF BLACK AMERICA
- CULTURE AND THE NEW RACISM: PAUL GILROY
- SUMMARY
- POINTS TO REMEMBER
- GLOSSARY
- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: PIERRE BOURDIEU
- SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
- FAMILY AND SCHOOL IN THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURAL CAPITAL
- TASTE AND EVERYDAY PRACTICES
- SUMMARY
- POINTS TO REMEMBER
- GLOSSARY
- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL GLOBALIZATION
- WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION?
- ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION
- IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN: THE MODERN WORLD‐SYSTEM
- CONTEMPORARY GLOBALIZING ECONOMIC PROCESSES
- GLOBALIZING POLITICAL PROCESSES: THE CHANGING AUTHORITY OF THE NATION‐STATE
- MIGRATION AND POLITICAL MOBILIZATION IN A TRANSNATIONAL WORLD
- SUMMARY
- POINTS TO REMEMBER
- GLOSSARY: WALLERSTEIN
- GLOSSARY: OTHER RELEVANT CONCEPTS
- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 15: MODERNITIES, RISK, COSMOPOLITANISM, AND GLOBAL CONSUMER CULTURE
- JÜRGEN HABERMAS: CONTRITE MODERNITY
- S.N. EISENSTADT: MULTIPLE MODERNITIES
- ULRICH BECK: GLOBAL RISK SOCIETY
- COSMOPOLITAN MODERNITY
- THE GLOBAL EXPANSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
- GLOBAL CONSUMER CULTURE
- JEAN BAUDRILLARD: THE AESTHETICIZATION OF REALITY
- ANTHONY GIDDENS: DISEMBEDDEDNESS AND DILEMMAS OF THE SELF
- SUMMARY
- POINTS TO REMEMBER
- GLOSSARY
- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
- REFERENCES
- GLOSSARY
- SOCIOLOGICAL THEORISTS AND SELECT KEY WRITINGS
- INDEX
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