Contemporary Social and Sociological Theory

Part I: Introductions Chapter 1: In the Beginning Was Modernity Modern Society Modern Knowledge Theory: The Key to Modern Knowledge The Classical Theorists Complexities of Contemporary Theory Summary Building Your Theory Toolbox Summary Chapter 2: Defining Moments in Twentieth-Century Theory - Talcott Parsons and the Frankfurt School Talcott Parsons: Defining Sociology The Frankfurt School: The Problem With Sociology Building Your Theory Toolbox Part II: Individuals and Situations Chapter 3: The Language of the Self - Herbert Blumer Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: Emergent Meanings Concepts and Theory: Self and Action Concepts and Theory: Society and Sociology Summary Taking the Perspective: Symbolic Interactionism Building Your Theory Toolbox Chapter 4: Imaging the Self - Erving Goffman The Big Picture: Self-Image Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: Impression Management Concepts and Theory: The Encounter Concepts and Theory: Frames and Keys Concepts and Theory: The Interaction Order Summary Taking the Perspective: Dramaturgy Building Your Theory Toolbox Chapter 5: Achieving Social Order - Harold Garfinkel The Big Picture: Social Constructivism Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: Achieving Social Order Concepts and Theory: Reflexivity Summary Taking the Perspective: Ethnomethodology Building Your Theory Toolbox Chapter 6: Social Exchanges - George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins The Big Picture: Agency Elementary Forms of Social Behavior: George Homans Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: Basic Principles of Behavioral Psychology Summary Social Exchanges and Power: Peter Blau Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: Social Exchanges Concepts and Theory: Creating Power and Social Structures Summary Ritualized Exchanges: Randall Collins Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: Emotion - The Generalized Concepts and Theory: Interaction Ritual Chains Concepts and Theory: Ritualizing Stratification Summary Taking the Perspective: Exchange Theory Building Your Theory Toolbox Part III: Social Structures and Systems The Big Picture: Levels of Analysis Chapter 7: Structures of Racial and Gender Inequality - William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz The Big Picture: Structures The Declining Significance of Race: William Julius Wilson Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: American Racial History Concepts and Theory: Policy Implications Summary Taking the Perspective: American Race Theory The Structures of Gender Inequality: Janet Saltzman Chafetz Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: Coercive Structures of Gender Inequality Concepts and Theory: Micro-Level Coercive Structures Concepts and Theory: Changing Gender Inequality Summary Taking the Perspective: Feminism Building Your Theory Toolbox Chapter 8: Structuring Class - Pierre Bourdieu The Big Picture: Class Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: Structuring Class Concepts and Theory: Replicating Class Concepts and Theory: Toward a New Sociology Summary Taking the Perspective: Cultural Embodiment Building Your Theory Toolbox Chapter 9: Structures of Power - Michel Foucault The Big Picture: Power Theorist's Digest Summary Taking the Perspective: Dramaturgy Building Your Theory Toolbox Chapter 5: Achieving Social Order - Harold Garfinkel The Big Picture: Social Constructivism Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: Achieving Social Order Concepts and Theory: Reflexivity Summary Taking the Perspective: Ethnomethodology Building Your Theory Toolbox Chapter 6: Social Exchanges - George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins The Big Picture: Agency Elementary Forms of Social Behavior: George Homans Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: Basic Principles of Behavioral Psychology Summary Social Exchanges and Power: Peter Blau Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: Social Exchanges Concepts and Theory: Creating Power and Social Structures Summary Ritualized Exchanges: Randall Collins Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: Emotion - The Generalized Concepts and Theory: Interaction Ritual Chains Concepts and Theory: Ritualizing Stratification Summary Taking the Perspective: Exchange Theory Building Your Theory Toolbox Part III: Social Structures and Systems The Big Picture: Levels of Analysis Chapter 7: Structures of Racial and Gender Inequality - William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz The Big Picture: Structures The Declining Significance of Race: William Julius Wilson Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: American Racial History Concepts and Theory: Policy Implications Summary Taking the Perspective: American Race Theory The Structures of Gender Inequality: Janet Saltzman Chafetz Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: Coercive Structures of Gender Inequality Concepts and Theory: Micro-Level Coercive Structures Concepts and Theory: Changing Gender Inequality Summary Taking the Perspective: Feminism Building Your Theory Toolbox Chapter 8: Structuring Class - Pierre Bourdieu The Big Picture: Class Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: Structuring Class Concepts and Theory: Replicating Class Concepts and Theory: Toward a New Sociology Summary Taking the Perspective: Cultural Embodiment Building Your Theory Toolbox Chapter 9: Structures of Power - Michel Foucault The Big Picture: Power Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: The Truth About Truth Concepts and Theory: The Practices of Power Concepts and Theory: Disciplining the Body Summary Taking the Perspective: Poststructuralism Building Your Theory Toolbox Chapter 10: World-Systems Theory - Immanuel Wallerstein The Big Picture: Globalization Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: The Dialectics of Capitalism Concepts and Theory: The End of the World as We Know It Summary Taking the Perspective: World-Systems Theory Building Your Theory Toolbox Chapter 11: The Network Society - Manual Castells The Big Picture: Network Society Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: Information Technology Concepts and Theory: Networks, Identities, and Democracy The Network Society and the Crisis in Democracy Summary Taking the Perspective: Society Writ Large Building Your Theory Toolbox Part IV: Modernity - Possibilities and Problems The Big Picture: Civil Society and Democracy Chapter 12: Reason and Democracy - Juergen Habermas The Big Picture: Social Change Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: Capitalism and Legitimation Concepts and Theory: The Colonization of Democracy Concepts and Theory: Hope for Democracy Summary Taking the Perspective: Critical Theory Building Your Theory Toolbox Chapter 13: Civil Society and Democracy - Jeffrey C. Alexander The Big Picture: Solidarity Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: The New Civil Sphere Concepts and Theory: Civil Institutions Concepts and Theory: Civil Society Outcomes Summary Taking the Perspective: A Strong Program in Cultural Society Building Your Theory Toolbox Chapter 14: Runaway Modernity - Anthony Giddens The Big Picture: Social Ontology Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: The Reality of Society Making Society and Hiding It Unconscious Motivation Concepts and Theory: The Contours of Modernity Concepts and Theory: The Experience of Modernity Summary Building Your Theory Toolbox Part V: Contemporary Political Identities The Big Picture: Politics of Identities Chapter 15: Being Black in America - Patricia Hill Collins and Cornel West The Big Picture: Epistemology Black Feminism and Intersectionality - Patricia Hill Collins Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: The Standpoint of Black Women Concepts and Theory: Intersectionality and Matrices of Domination Summary Commodification of Black Experience - Cornel West Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: Black Existence in America Summary Building Your Theory Toolbox Chapter 16: Text, Power, and Women - Dorothy E. Smith Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: The Problem With Facts Concepts and Theory: Lived Experience and Knowing Summary Building Your Theory Toolbox Chapter 17: Exposing Sex - Judith Butler Theorist's Digest Concepts and Theory: What's the Matter With Bodies? Concepts and Theory: Haunting, Subversion, and Queer Politics Summary Taking the Perspective: Poststructuralism and Queer Theory Building Your Theory Toolbox