1. A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early Years -- 2. Karl Marx -- 3. Emile Durkheim -- 4. Max Weber -- 5. George Simmel -- 6. A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years -- 7. Structural Functionalism, Neofunctionalism, and Conflict Theory -- 8. Varieties of Neo-Marxian Theory -- 9. Symbolic Interactionism -- 10. Ethnomethodology -- 11. Exchange, Network, and Rational Choice Theories -- 12. Contemporary Feminist Theory / Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge -- 13. Micro-Macro Integration -- 14. Agency-Structure Integration -- 15. Contemporary Theories of Modernity -- 16. Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and the Emergence of Postmodern Social Theory -- Appendix. Sociological Metatheorizing and a Metatheoretical Schema for Analyzing Sociological Theory.