Sociological Theory
First Edition
- Bert N. Adams - University of Wisconsin - Madison, Chile, University of Wisconsin, USA
- R. A. Sydie - University of Alberta - Edmonton, Canada
Other Titles in:
Social Theory
Social Theory
September 2002 | 668 pages | SAGE South Asia
With this book, students will no longer face the "forest and trees" problem; no longer will they become so immersed in the details of one theory after another as to be unable to compare or relate them. A central goal of this text then is to be as concise as possible while also doing justice to more than 40 thinkers.
I. THE EUROPEAN ROOTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
Saint-Simon, Comte, and Martineau
II. CONSERVATIVE THEORIES
Spencer and Sumner
Durkheim
III. RADICAL THEORY
Marx and Engels
Lenin and Luxemburg
IV. SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES OF COMPLEXITY AND FORM
Max Weber and Marianne Weber
Simmel
V. SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES OF POLITICS AND ECONOMICS
Pareto and Michels
Veblen and Schumpeter
VI. OTHER VOICES IN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIZING
Gilman and Webb
W E B du Bois
Cooley, Mead, and Freud
VII. TWENTIETH-CENTURY FUNCTIONALISM AND BEYOND
Parsons and Merton
Luhmann and Giddens
VIII. CRITICISM, MARXISM, AND CHANGE
The Frankfurt School and Habermas
Poulantzas, Althusser, Dunayevskaya, and Wright
Service, Wallerstein, and Skocpol
IX. TRANSITIONS AND CHALLENGES: Mid-Twentieth-Century Sociology
Blumer, Goffman, and Hochschild
Coleman
Smith and Collins
Foucault and Feminist Responses