Biographical and Autobiographical SketchesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorsPART I. CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORYChapter 1. A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early YearsIntroductionPremodern Sociological TheorySocial Forces in the Development of Sociological TheoryIntellectual Forces and the Rise of Sociological TheoryThe Development of French SociologyThe Development of German SociologyThe Origins of British SociologyThe Key Figure in Early Italian SociologyNon-European Classical TheoryChapter 2. Karl MarxIntroductionThe DialecticDialectical MethodHuman PotentialAlienationThe Structures of Capitalist SocietyMaterialist Conception of HistoryCultural Aspects of Capitalist SocietyMarx''s Economics: A Case StudyCommunismCriticismsContemporary ApplicationsChapter 3. Emile DurkheimIntroductionSocial FactsThe Division of Labor in SocietySuicideThe Elementary Forms of Religious LifeMoral Education and Social ReformCriticismsContemporary ApplicationsChapter 4. Max WeberMethodologySubstantive SociologyCriticismsContemporary ApplicationsChapter 5. Georg SimmelPrimary ConcernsIndividual Consciousness and IndividualitySocial Interaction ("Association")Social Structures and WorldsObjective CultureThe Philosophy of MoneySecrecy: A Case Study in Simmel''s SociologyCriticismsContemporary ApplicationsPART II. MODERN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: THE MAJOR SCHOOLSChapter 6.
A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later YearsEarly American Sociological TheorySociological Theory to MidcenturySociological Theory From MidcenturyLate-Twentieth-Century Integrative TheoryTheories of Modernity and PostmodernitySocial Theory in the Twenty-First CenturyChapter 7. Structural Functionalism, Systems Theory, and Conflict TheoryStructural FunctionalismSystems TheoryConflict TheoryChapter 8. Varieties of Neo-Marxian TheoryEconomic DeterminismHegelian MarxismCritical TheoryNeo-Marxian Economic SociologyHistorically Oriented MarxismNeo-Marxian Spatial AnalysisPost-Marxist TheoryChapter 9. Symbolic InteractionismThe Major Historical RootsThe Ideas of George Herbert MeadSymbolic Interactionism: The Basic PrinciplesThe Self and the Work of Erving GoffmanThe Sociology of EmotionsCriticismsThe Future of Symbolic InteractionismChapter 10. EthnomethodologyDefining EthnomethodologyThe Diversification of EthnomethodologySome Early ExamplesConversation AnalysisStudies of InstitutionsCriticisms of Traditional SociologyStresses and Strains in EthnomethodologySynthesis and IntegrationChapter 11. Exchange, Network, and Rational Choice TheoriesExchange TheoryNetwork TheoryNetwork Exchange TheoryRational Choice TheoryChapter 12. Contemporary Feminist Theory (by Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge)Feminism''s Basic QuestionsHistorical Framing--The Second Wave: Feminism, Sociology, and GenderVarieties of Contemporary Feminist TheoryChallenges to FeminismFeminist Sociological TheorizingChapter 13. Micro-Macro and Agency-Structure IntegrationMicro-Macro IntegrationAgency-Structure IntegrationAgency-Structure and Micro-Macro Linkages: Fundamental DifferencesPART III.
FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN SOCIAL THEORY (AND BEYOND)Chapter 14. Contemporary Theories of ModernityClassical Theorists on ModernityThe Juggernaut of ModernityThe Risk SocietyThe Holocaust and Liquid ModernityModernity''s Unfinished ProjectSelf, Society, and ReligionInformationalism and the Network SocietyChapter 15. Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodern Social TheoryStructuralismPoststructuralismPostmodern Social TheoryCriticismsChapter 16. Theories of Race and ColonialismFanon and the Colonial SubjectPostcolonial TheoryCritical Theories of Race and RacismRacial FormationA Systematic Theory of RaceSouthern Theory and Indigenous ResurgenceChapter 17. Globalization TheoryMajor Contemporary Theorists on GlobalizationCultural TheoryEconomic TheoryPolitical TheoryNeoliberalismChapter 18. Science, Technology, and NatureAffect TheoryScience Studies and Actor-Network TheoryTheories of the AnthropoceneConsumption and Prosumption TheoryReferencesName IndexSubject Index.