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Sociological Theory
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Sociological Theory

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  • Bert N. Adams - University of Wisconsin - Madison, Chile, University of Wisconsin, USA
  • R. A. Sydie - University of Alberta - Edmonton, Canada

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Social Theory

672 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This concise text covers both classical and contemporary social thought. It traces the major schools of thought over the past 150 years as they appear and reappear in different chapters and looks at important new voices in social theory, including 14 female theorists. The treatment of individual theories and theorists is balanced with the development of key themes and ideas about social life, including race, class and gender.
 
Introduction
 
PART ONE: THE EUROPEAN ROOTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
 
The Origins of Sociological Theory
Saint-Simon, Comte and Martineau
Theorizing after the French Revolution
 
PART TWO: CONSERVATIVE THEORIES
Spencer and Sumner
Evolutionism and Functionalism
Durkheim
Social Realism and Functionalism Extended
 
PART THREE: RADICAL THEORY
Marx and Engels
Radical Anti-Capitalism
Lenin and Luxemburg
Marxism Extended
 
PART FOUR: SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES OF COMPLEXITY AND FORM
Max Weber and Marianne Weber
Social Action and Societal Complexity
Simmel
The Sociology of Form and Content
 
PART FIVE: SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES OF POLITICS AND ECONOMICS
Pareto and Michels
Political Sociological Theories
Veblen and Schumpeter
Economic Sociological Theories
 
PART SIX: OTHER VOICES IN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIZING
Gilman and Webb
Society and Gender
Du Bois
Sociological Theory and Race
Cooley, Mead and Freud
Society, Self and Mind
 
PART SEVEN: TWENTIETH-CENTURY FUNCTIONALISM AND BEYOND
Parsons and Merton
Twentieth-Century Functionalism
Luhmann and Giddens
Systems, Structuration and Modernity
 
PART EIGHT: CRITICISM, MARXISM AND CHANGE
 
Critical Theory
The Frankfurt School and Habermas

 
 
Marxism since 1930
 
Socio-Cultural Change
Evolution, World Systems and Revolution

 
 
PART NINE: TRANSITIONS AND CHALLENGES
 
Mid-Twentieth-Century Sociology
Blumer, Goffman and Hochschild
Symbolic Interactionism
Coleman
Rational Choice and Exchange
Smith and Collins
Feminist Sociological Theory
 
Knowledge, Truth and Power
Foucault's Discourse and the Feminist Response

 
 
Final Thoughts on Sociological Theorizing

"I like the idea of a more inclusive sociological theory text. It’s good to see the work of women and people of color integrated into this book….As we move beyond telling the story of a fairly homogeneous academic elite, we also begin to make social theory and theorizing more accessible to our increasingly diverse students."

Robert E. L. Roberts
California State University, San Marcos

Put simply, although the theory instructor has the paramount responsibility of acquainting her students with major perspectives/concepts, the academic figures responsible for constructing them and the intellectual and social conditions under which they theorized, she needs a good deal of help. Adams and Sydie’s Sociological Theory is one of those books that provide such prop—a good one for that.

 

Alem Kebede
California Sate University, Bakersfield
Teaching Sociology

Content is relevant to the particular academic course

Mr Andrew Hicks
Faculty of Social Sciences/Department of Sociology, University of Guyana
June 29, 2015

Sample Materials & Chapters

Timeline

Preface


Bert N. Adams

Bert N. Adams (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is a former President and currently a Fellow of the National Council on Family Relations. He has taught sociological theory extensively, both in East Africa and at the University of Wisconsin, and also teaches and writes on the sociology of the family. He is the author of several books, including the introductory textbook THE FAMILY: A SOCIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION, 5THEDITION (Harcourt Brace 1995) and SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY (Pine Forge Press 2001). With David M. Klein, he served as co-editor of the Understanding... More About Author

R. A. Sydie

R. A. Sydie has been professor of sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton for the past 30 years and is the current chair of the department of sociology. Her research interests include sociological theory, art and culture, and gender studies. Professor Sydie is the author of Natural Women, Cultured Men. Her latest research project involves a historical examination of sociological work on love and eroticism.   More About Author

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