Sociological Theory (8th Edition)

✍ Scribed by George Ritzer

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 827
• Edition: 8th
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written by one of the foremost authorities on sociological theory, this text gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought. The integration of key theories with biographical sketches of theorists and the requisite historical and intellectual context helps students to better understand the original works of classical and modern theorists as well as to compare and contrast the latest substantive theories.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 11
CHAPTER 1 A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early Years......Page 23
Introduction......Page 24
Social Forces in the Development of Sociological Theory......Page 27
Intellectual Forces and the Rise of Sociological Theory......Page 30
The Development of French Sociology......Page 33
The Development of German Sociology......Page 43
The Origins of British Sociology......Page 54
The Key Figure in Early Italian Sociology......Page 61
Turn-of-the-Century Developments in European Marxism......Page 62
Introduction......Page 65
The Dialectic......Page 67
Dialectical Method......Page 68
Human Potential......Page 70
Alienation......Page 75
The Structures of Capitalist Society......Page 78
Materialist Conception of History......Page 87
Cultural Aspects of Capitalist Society......Page 89
Marx’s Economics: A Case Study......Page 92
Criticisms......Page 95
Introduction......Page 98
Social Facts......Page 99
The Division of Labor in Society......Page 106
Suicide......Page 114
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life......Page 119
Moral Education and Social Reform......Page 125
Criticisms......Page 129
CHAPTER 4 Max Weber......Page 134
Methodology......Page 135
Substantive Sociology......Page 146
Criticisms......Page 176
Primary Concerns......Page 180
Individual Consciousness......Page 186
Social Interaction (“Association”)......Page 187
Social Structures......Page 193
Objective Culture......Page 194
The Philosophy of Money......Page 196
Secrecy: A Case Study in Simmel’s Sociology......Page 203
Criticisms......Page 207
CHAPTER 6 A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years......Page 211
Early American Sociological Theory......Page 212
Women in Early Sociology......Page 227
W.E.B. Du Bois and Race Theory......Page 228
Sociological Theory to Midcentury......Page 229
Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge......Page 235
Sociological Theory from Midcentury......Page 236
Late-Twentieth-Century Developments in Sociological Theory......Page 246
Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity......Page 248
Theories to Watch in the Early Twenty-first Century......Page 250
CHAPTER 7 Structural Functionalism, Neofunctionalism, and Conflict Theory......Page 258
Structural Functionalism......Page 259
Neofunctionalism......Page 282
Conflict Theory......Page 287
Economic Determinism......Page 299
Hegelian Marxism......Page 300
Critical Theory......Page 304
Neo-Marxian Economic Sociology......Page 319
Historically Oriented Marxism......Page 327
Neo-Marxian Spatial Analysis......Page 332
Post-Marxist Theory......Page 339
Sociology and Modern Systems Theory......Page 353
Niklas Luhmann’s General System Theory......Page 357
The Major Historical Roots......Page 373
The Ideas of George Herbert Mead......Page 377
Symbolic Interactionism: The Basic Principles......Page 391
Criticisms......Page 406
Toward a More Synthetic and Integrative Symbolic Interactionism......Page 407
The Future of Symbolic Interactionism......Page 410
Defining Ethnomethodology......Page 413
The Diversification of Ethnomethodology......Page 417
Some Early Examples......Page 419
Conversation Analysis......Page 422
Studies of Institutions......Page 429
Criticisms of Traditional Sociology......Page 432
Stresses and Strains in Ethnomethodology......Page 434
Synthesis and Integration......Page 435
Exchange Theory......Page 438
Network Theory......Page 459
Network Exchange Theory......Page 463
Rational Choice Theory......Page 466
Feminism’s Basic Questions......Page 476
Historical Framing: Feminism, Sociology, and Gender......Page 479
Varieties of Contemporary Feminist Theory......Page 482
Feminist Sociological Theorizing......Page 510
CHAPTER 14 Micro-Macro and Agency-Structure Integration......Page 521
Micro-Macro Integration......Page 522
Agency-Structure Integration......Page 542
Agency-Structure and Micro-Macro Linkages: Fundamental Differences......Page 566
Classical Theorists on Modernity......Page 569
The Juggernaut of Modernity......Page 571
The Risk Society......Page 578
The Holocaust and Liquid Modernity......Page 581
Modernity’s Unfinished Project......Page 586
Informationalism and the Network Society......Page 591
CHAPTER 16 Globalization Theory......Page 596
Major Contemporary Theorists on Globalization......Page 598
Cultural Theory......Page 602
Economic Theory......Page 613
Political Theory......Page 617
Neoliberalism......Page 620
Other Theories......Page 625
CHAPTER 17 Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodern Social Theory......Page 627
Structuralism......Page 628
Poststructuralism......Page 631
Postmodern Social Theory......Page 650
Criticisms and Post-Postmodern Social Theory......Page 662
Queer Theory......Page 667
Critical Theories of Race and Racism......Page 674
Actor-Network Theory, Posthumanism, and Postsociality......Page 678
Practice Theory......Page 683
Metatheorizing in Sociology......Page 687
Pierre Bourdieu’s Reflexive Sociology......Page 691
The Ideas of Thomas Kuhn......Page 693
The Social-Definition Paradigm......Page 697
Toward a More Integrated Sociological Paradigm......Page 698
Levels of Social Analysis: An Overview......Page 699
References......Page 703
Credits......Page 797
Name Index......Page 799
Subject Index......Page 811

✦ Subjects

Социологические дисциплины;Первоисточники по социологии;Ритцер Джордж;