CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Sociological TheoryCreating Sociological TheoryDefining Sociological TheoryCreating Sociological Theory: A More Realistic ViewOverview of the BookSummarySuggested ReadingsCHAPTER 2 Classical Theories IÉmile Durkheim: From Mechanical to Organic SolidarityKarl Marx: From Capitalism to CommunismMax Weber: The Rationalization of SocietySummarySuggested ReadingsCHAPTER 3 Classical Theories IIGeorg Simmel: The Growing Tragedy of CultureThorstein Veblen: Increasing Control of Business Over IndustryGeorge Herbert Mead: Social BehaviorismW. E. B. Du Bois: Race and Racism in Modern SocietySummarySuggested ReadingsCHAPTER 4 Contemporary Grand Theories IStructural FunctionalismConflict TheoryGeneral Systems TheorySummarySuggested ReadingsCHAPTER 5 Contemporary Grand Theories IINeo-Marxian TheoryThe Civilizing ProcessThe Colonization of the LifeworldThe Juggernaut of ModernitySummarySuggested ReadingsCHAPTER 6 Contemporary Theories of Everyday LifeSymbolic InteractionismDramaturgyEthnomethodology and Conversation AnalysisExchange TheoryRational Choice TheorySummarySuggested ReadingsCHAPTER 7 Contemporary Integrative TheoriesA More Integrated Exchange TheoryStructuration TheoryCulture and AgencyHabitus and FieldSummarySuggested ReadingsCHAPTER 8 Contemporary Feminist TheoriesThe Basic Theoretical QuestionsThe Classical RootsContemporary Feminist TheoriesChallenges to FeminismSummarySuggested ReadingsCHAPTER 9 Theories of Race and ColonialismFanon and the Colonial SubjectPostcolonial TheoryCritical Theories of Race and RacismRacial FormationA Systematic Theory of RaceSouthern Theory and Indigenous ResurgenceSummarySuggested ReadingsCHAPTER 10 Postmodern Grand TheoriesThe Transition From Industrial to Postindustrial SocietyIncreasing Governmentality (and Other Grand Theories)Postmodernity as Modernity's Coming of AgeThe Rise of Consumer Society, Loss of Symbolic Exchange, and Increase in SimulationsThe Consumer Society and the New Means of ConsumptionQueer Theory: Sex and SexualitySummarySuggested ReadingsCHAPTER 11 Globalization TheoryMajor Contemporary Theorists on GlobalizationCultural TheoryEconomic TheoryPolitical TheorySummarySuggested ReadingsCHAPTER 12 Science, technology, and natureAffect Theory and the New MaterialismScience Studies and Actor-Network TheoryTheories of the AnthropoceneSummarySuggested ReadingsGlossarySource Acknowledgments.