Contemporary sociological theory / edited by Craig Calhoun [and others].
Calhoun, Craig J., 1952-
2002
HM585 .C67 2002 (Mapit)
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Title
Contemporary sociological theory / edited by Craig Calhoun [and others].
ISBN
0631213503 (pbk.)
063121349X (cased)
9780631213499 (cased)
9780631213505 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Oxford : Blackwell, 2002.
Language
English
Description
xii, 468 pages ; 26 cm
Call Number
HM585 .C67 2002
Alternate Call Number
71.00
MR 5100
301.01
Dewey Decimal Classification
301.01
Summary
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. The theories of Foucault, Giddens, and Bourdieu also appear in longer sections, enabling students and scholars to examine the work in greater depth. Editorial introductions put these readings into theoretical perspective, making this an authoritative and compact survey of contemporary sociological theory. This book, in conjunction with its complement, Classical Sociological Theory, offers readers a complete overview of sociological theory.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Calhoun, Craig J., 1952-
Series
Blackwell readers in sociology.
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pt. 1. Micro-sociological analysis. The phenomenology of the social world / Alfred Schutz
The social construction of reality / Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckman
The presentation of self in everyday life / Erving Goffman
Symbolic interactionism / Herbert Blumer
pt. 2. Exchange and rationality. Social behavior as exchange / George C. Homans
Exchange and power in social life / Peter M. Blau
Social capital in the creation of human capital / James S. Coleman
Foundations for a theory of collective decisions / James S. Coleman
The logic of collective action / Mancur Olson
pt. 3. Institutional analysis. Limits of steering / Niklas Luhmann
Coercion, capital, and European states / Charles Tilly
The iron age revisited : institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields / Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell
pt. 4. The sociological theory of Michel Foucault. The birth and the clinic ; Truth and power ; Discipline and punish / Michel Foucault
pt. 5. The sociological theory of Anthony Giddens. Some new rules of sociological method ; Agency, structure ; The consequences of modernity / Anthony Giddens
The sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu. Social space and symbolic space ; Structures, Habitus, practices ; The field of cultural production, or: the economic world reversed / Pierre Bourdieu
pt. 7. Race, gender, and difference. The conceptual practices of power / Dorothy E. Smith
Black feminist epistemology / Patricia Hill Collins
Black skin, white masks / Frantz Fanon
The paradoxes of integration / Orlando Patterson
pt. 8. The sociological theory of Jürgen Habermas. Civil society and the political public sphere ; The tasks of a critical theory of society ; Theory and practice / Jürgen Habermas
pt. 9. Modernity and postmodernity. The social constraint towards self-constraint / Norbert Elias
A sociological theory of postmodernity / Zygmunt Bauman
Describing the future / Niklas Luhmann.

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