(Ebook) Contemporary sociological theory 1st Edition by Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff, Indermohan Virk ISBN 9780631213505 0631213503

(Ebook) Contemporary sociological theory 1st Edition by Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff, Indermohan Virk ISBN 9780631213505 0631213503

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ISBN 10: 0631213503

ISBN 13: 9780631213505

Author:  Craig J. Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff, Indermohan Virk 

This thorough collection of contemporary sociological theory is the definitive guide to current perspectives and approaches in the field. Organized by theme, the volume includes the most representative material available on topics such as symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, structuralism, network theory, critical theory, feminist theory, and the current debates over modernity and postmodernity.

Table of contents: 

Part I

Micro-Sociological Analysis

Introduction to Part I

1 The Phenomenology of the Social World

Alfred Schutz

2 The Social Construction of Reality Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann

3 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Erving Goffman

4 Symbolic Interactionism

Herbert Blumer

Part II

Exchange and Rationality

Introduction to Part II

5 Social Behavior as Exchange

George C. Homans

6 Exchange and Power in Social Life

Peter M. Blau

7 Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital James S. Coleman

8 Foundations for a Theory of Collective Decisions James S. Coleman

9 The Logic of Collective Action Mancur Olson

Part III

Institutional Analysis

Introduction to Part III

10 Limits of Steering Niklas Luhmann

11 Coercion, Capital, and European States

Charles Tilly

12 The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism

and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell

Part IV

The Sociological Theory of Michel Foucault

Introduction to Part IV

13 The Birth of the Clinic

Michel Foucault

14 Truth and Power

Michel Foucault

15 Discipline and Punish

Michel Foucault

Part V

The Sociological Theory of Anthony Giddens

Introduction to Part V

16 Some New Rules of Sociological Method

Anthony Giddens

17 Agency, Structure

Anthony Giddens

18 The Consequences of Modernity

Anthony Giddens

Part VI

The Sociological Theory of Pierre Bourdieu

Introduction to Part VI

19 Social Space and Symbolic Space

Pierre Bourdieu

20 Structures, Habitus, Practices

Pierre Bourdieu

21

The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic

World Reversed

Pierre Bourdieu

Part VII

Race, Gender, and Difference

Introduction to Part VII

22

The Conceptual Practices of Power i

Dorothy E. Smith

23 Black Feminist Epistemology

Patricia Hill Collins

24 Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon

25

The Paradoxes of Integration

Orlando Patterson

Part VIII

The Sociological Theory of Jürgen Habermas

Introduction to Part VIII

26 Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere

Jürgen Habermas

27 The Tasks of a Critical Theory of Society

Jürgen Habermas

28 Theory and Practice Jürgen Habermas

Part IX

Modernity and Postmodernity

Introduction to Part IX

29 The Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint Norbert Elias

30 A Sociological Theory of Postmodernity Zygmunt Bauman

31 Describing the Future Niklas Luhmann

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