Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings

✍ Scribed by Scott Appelrouth, Laura D. Edles

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 921
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings provides you with the best of both worlds―carefully-edited excerpts from the original works of sociology′s key theorists accompanied by an analytical framework that discusses the lives, ideas, and historical circumstances of each theorist. This unique format enables you to examine, compare, and contrast each theorist’s major themes and concepts. In the Fourth Edition of this bestseller, examples from contemporary life and a rich variety of updated pedagogical tools (tables, figures, photographs, discussion questions,) illuminate complex ideas.

✦ Table of Contents

CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY - FRONT COVER
CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
COPYRIGHT
BRIEF CONTENTS
DETAILED CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
PREFACE
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION
PART I - FOUNDATIONS OF CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
CHAPTER 2 - KARL MARX (1818–1883)
CHAPTER 3 - ÉMILE DURKHEIM (1858–1917)
CHAPTER 4 - MAX WEBER (1864–1920)
PART II - CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: EXPANDING THE FOUNDATION
CHAPTER 5 - CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860–1935)
CHAPTER 6 -
GEORG SIMMEL (1858–1918)
CHAPTER 7 - W. E. B. DU BOIS (1868–1963)
CHAPTER 8 - GEORGE HERBERT MEAD (1863–1931)
PART III - TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITIONS
CHAPTER 9 - STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM
CHAPTER 10 - CRITICAL THEORY
CHAPTER 11 - EXCHANGE AND RATIONAL CHOICE THEORIES
CHAPTER 12 - SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM AND DRAMATURGY
CHAPTER 13 - PHENOMENOLOGY
CHAPTER 14 - POSTSTRUCTURALISM
CHAPTER 15 - POSTMODERNISM
CHAPTER 16 - THE GLOBAL SOCIETY
GLOSSARY AND TERMINOLOGY
REFERENCES
INDEX