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SAGE PUBLISHING Sociological Theory 10Th Edition 2018 by George Ritzer, Jeffrey Stepnisky
Written by an author team that includes one of sociology's leading contemporary theorists, Sociological Theory gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought, from sociology's origins through the early 21st Century. Key theories are integrated with biographical sketches of theorists, and are placed in their historical and intellectual context. Biographical and Autobiographical SketchesPrefacePART I Classical Sociological TheoryCHAPTER 1 A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early YearsIntroductionSocial Forces in the Development of Sociological TheoryIntellectual Forces and the Rise of Sociological TheoryThe Development of French SociologyThe Development of German SociologyThe Origins of British SociologyThe Key Figure in Early Italian SociologyTurn-of-the-Century Developments in European MarxismCHAPTER 2 Karl MarxIntroductionThe DialecticDialectical MethodHuman PotentialAlienationThe Structures of Capitalist SocietyMaterialist Conception of HistoryCultural Aspects of Capitalist Society Marx's Economics: A Case StudyCommunismCriticismsContemporary ApplicationsCHAPTER 3 Emile DurkheimIntroductionSocial FactsThe Division of Labor in SocietySuicideThe Elementary Forms of Religious LifeMoral Education and Social ReformCriticismsContemporary ApplicationsCHAPTER 4 Max WeberMethodologySubstantive SociologyCriticismsContemporary ApplicationsCHAPTER 5 Georg SimmelPrimary ConcernsIndividual Consciousness and IndividualitySocial Interaction ("Association")Social Structures and WorldsObjective CultureSecrecy: A Case Study in Simmel's SociologyCriticismsContemporary ApplicationsPART II Modern Sociological Theory: The Major SchoolsCHAPTER 6 A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later YearsEarly American Sociological TheorySociological Theory to MidcenturySociological Theory from MidcenturyLate-Twentieth-Century Developments in Sociological TheoryTheories of Modernity and PostmodernitySocial Theory in the Twenty-First CenturyCHAPTER 7 Structural Functionalism, Systems Theory, and Conflict TheoryStructural FunctionalismSystems TheoryConflict TheoryCHAPTER 8 Varieties of Neo-Marxian TheoryEconomic DeterminismHegelian MarxismCritical TheoryNeo-Marxian Economic SociologyHistorically Oriented MarxismNeo-Marxian Spatial AnalysisPost-Marxist TheoryCHAPTER 9 Symbolic InteractionismThe Major Historical RootsThe Ideas of George Herbert MeadSymbolic Interactionism: The Basic PrinciplesThe Self and the Work of Erving GoffmanThe Sociology of EmotionsCriticismsThe Future of Symbolic InteractionismCHAPTER 10 EthnomethodologyDefining EthnomethodologyThe Diversification of EthnomethodologySome Early ExamplesConversation AnalysisStudies of InstitutionsCriticisms of Traditional SociologyStresses and Strains in EthnomethodologySynthesis and IntegrationCHAPTER 11 Exchange, Network, and Rational Choice TheoriesExchange TheoryNetwork TheoryNetwork Exchange TheoryRational Choice TheoryCHAPTER 12 Contemporary Feminist TheoryFeminism's Basic QuestionsHistorical Framing: Feminism, Sociology, and GenderVarieties of Contemporary Feminist TheoryFeminist Sociological TheorizingCHAPTER 13 Micro-Macro and Agency-Structure IntegrationMicro-Macro IntegrationAgency-Structure IntegrationAgency-Structure and Micro-Macro Linkages: Fundamental DifferencesPART III From Modern to Postmodern Social Theory (and Beyond)CHAPTER 14 Contemporary Theories of ModernityClassical Theorists on ModernityThe Juggernaut of ModernityThe Risk SocietyThe Holocaust and Liquid ModernityModernity's Unfinished ProjectSelf, Society, and ReligionInformationalism and the Network SocietyCHAPTER 15 Theories of Race and ColonialismFanon and the Colonial SubjectPostcolonial TheoryCritical Theories of Race and RacismRacial FormationA Systematic Theory of RaceSouthern Theory and Indigenous ResurgenceCHAPTER 16 Globalization TheoryMajor Contemporary Theorists on GlobalizationCultural TheoryCultural DifferentialismCultural ConvergenceCultural HybridizationEconomic TheoryPolitical TheoryNeoliberalismOther TheoriesCHAPTER 17 Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodern Social TheoryStructuralismPoststructuralismPostmodern Social TheoryCriticisms and Post-Postmodern Social TheoryCHAPTER 18 Social Theory in the Twenty-First CenturyQueer TheoryActor-Network Theory, Posthumanism, and PostsocialityAffect TheoryProsumption TheoryReferences