Title:
Contemporary sociological theory
Author:
Calhoun, Craig J., 1952-
ISBN:
9781405148566
Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Physical Description:
xii, 489 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series:
The sociological theory reader ; v. 2
General Note:
Complements Classical sociological theory.
Contents:
Part I. Micro-Sociological Analysis -- 1. The Phenomenology of the Social World [1932] / Alfred Schutz -- 2. The Social Construction of Reality [1966] / Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann -- 3. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life [1959] / Erving Goffman -- 4. Symbolic Interactionism [1969] / Herbert Blunter -- Part II. Exchange and Rationality -- 5. Social Behavior as Exchange [1958] / George C. Homans -- 6. Exchange and Power in Social Life [1964] / Peter M. Blau -- 7. The Logic of Collective Action [1965] / Mancur Olson -- 8. Rights to Act [1990] / James S. Coleman -- 9. Cooperation without Law or Trust [2005] / Karen S. Cook, Russell Hardin and Margaret Levi -- Part III. Institutional Analysis -- 10. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields [1983] / Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell -- 11. Economic Embeddedness [1985] / Mark Granovetter -- 12. Catnets [1966] / Harrison White -- Part IV. The Sociological Theory of Michel Foucault -- 13. The History of Sexuality [1976] / Michel Foucault -- 14. Truth and Power [1977] / Michel Foucault -- 15. Discipline and Punish [1975] / Michel Foucault -- Part V. The Sociological Theory of Anthony Giddens -- 16. Some New Rules of Sociological Method [1976] / Anthony Giddens -- 17. Agency, Structure [1979] / Anthony Giddens -- 18. The Consequences of Modernity [1990] / Anthony Giddens -- Part VI. The Sociological Theory of Pierre Bourdieu -- 19. Social Space and Symbolic Space [1994] / Pierre Bourdieu -- 20. Structures, Habitus, Practices [1994] / Pierre Bourdieu -- 21. The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed [1993] / Pierre Bourdieu -- Part VII. Race, Gender, and Difference -- 22. The Conceptual Practices of Power [1990] / Dorothy E. Smith -- 23. Black Feminist Epistemology [1990] / Patricia Hill Collins -- 24. Black Skin, White Masks [1952] / Frantz Fanon -- 25. The Paradoxes of Integration [1997] / Orlando Patterson -- Part VIII. The Sociological Theory of Jurgen Habermas -- 26. Modernity: An Unfinished Project [1980] / Jurgen Habermas -- 27. The Rationalization of the Lifeworld [1981] / Jurgen Habermas -- 28. Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere [1996] / Jurgen Habermas -- Part IX. Modernity and Postmodernity -- 29. The Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint [1937] / Norbert Elias -- 30. Modernity and the Holocaust [1989] / Zygmunt Bauman -- 31. We Have Never Been Modern [1991] / Bruno Latour -- 32. The Modern World-System in Crisis [2004] / Immanuel Wallerstein.
Abstract:
"This meticulous collection of contemporary sociological theory is the definitive guide to current perspectives and approaches in the field. Organized thematically, this volume includes the most representative material available on topics such as symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, structuralism, network theory, critical theory, feminist theory, and the debates over modernity and postmodernity. The theories of Foucault, Giddens, and Bourdieu are thoroughly represented in order to enable the reader to examine their work in depth." "For this second edition, selected readings bring the book up to date and enhance the richness of the text by way of examples, accessibility, and connections to today's theoretical discussions. Editorial introductions put these readings into theoretical perspective, making this an authoritative and compact survey of contemporary sociological theory, and an essential text for undergraduate courses. The approach of giving substantial primary source texts rather than merely "snippets," and backing these up with substantial introductions, is maintained for the new edition." "Contemporary Sociological Theory, in conjunction with its complement, Classical Sociological Theory, offers readers a complete overview of sociological theory. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Added Author:
Added Uniform Title:
Classical sociological theory.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0618/2006023488.html