Machine generated contents note: pt. I INTRODUCTIONS -- ch. 1 In the Beginning Was Modernity -- Modern Society -- Modern Knowledge -- Positivism and Sociology -- Theory: The Key to Modern Knowledge -- The Classical Theorists -- Complexities of Contemporary Theory -- Summary -- Building Your Theory Toolbox -- ch. 2 Defining Moments in Twentieth-Century Theory---Talcott Parsons and the Frankfurt School -- Talcott Parsons: Defining Sociology -- Parsons's Vision for the Social Sciences -- Parsons's Theoretical Project -- The Problem of Social Order -- Voluntaristic Action -- Patterning Voluntaristic Action -- The Frankfurt School: The Problem With Sociology -- Historical Roots -- The Problem With Positivism: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno -- Summary -- Building Your Theory Toolbox -- pt. II INDIVIDUALS AND SITUATIONS -- ch. 3 The Language of the Self---Herbert Blumer -- Theorist's Digest -- Concepts and Theory: Emergent Meanings -- Meaning and Human Nature --

Contents note continued: Interactions and Emergent Meanings -- Symbols and Social Objects -- Concepts and Theory: Self and Action -- Creating the Self -- The Language of the Self -- Social Action -- Concepts and Theory: Society and Sociology -- Joint Actions -- Sociology -- Summary -- Taking the Perspective: Symbolic Interactionism -- Building Your Theory Toolbox -- ch. 4 Imaging the Self---Erving Goffman -- The Big Picture: Self-Image -- Theorist's Digest -- Concepts and Theory: Impression Management -- Performing the Self -- Relating to Roles -- Sacred and Stigmatized Selves -- 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 -- ch. 5 Achieving Social Order---Harold Garfinkel -- The Big Picture: Social Constructivism -- Theorist's Digest -- Concepts and Theory: Achieving Social Order -- Understanding Sociology --

Contents note continued: Common, Everyday Methods -- Accounting -- Seen But Unnoticed -- Documentary Method -- Concepts and Theory: Reflexivity -- Situationally Constructing Reality -- Ad Hocing -- Summary -- Taking the Perspective: Ethnomethodology -- Building Your Theory Toolbox -- ch. 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 -- Secondary Propositions -- Summary -- Social Exchanges and Power: Peter Blau -- Theorist's Digest -- Concepts and Theory: Social Exchanges -- Basic Exchange Principles -- Concepts and Theory: Creating Power and Social Structures -- Building Social Structures -- Summary -- Ritualized Exchanges: Randall Collins -- Theorist's Digest -- Concepts and Theory: Emotion---The Generalized Media of Exchange -- Concepts and Theory: Interaction Ritual Chains --

Contents note continued: Ritualized Social Structures -- Concepts and Theory: Ritualizing Stratification -- The Vertical Dimension of Power -- The Horizontal Dimension of Networks -- Reproducing Class and Power -- Summary -- Taking the Perspective: Exchange Theory -- Building Your Theory Toolbox -- pt. III SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS -- The Big Picture: Levels of Analysis -- ch. 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 -- The Plantation Economy -- Post-Civil War to New Deal Politics -- World War II and Beyond -- 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 --

Contents note continued: Macro-Level Coercive Structures -- Meso-Level Coercive Structures -- Concepts and Theory: Micro-Level Coercive Structures -- Gendered Social Exchanges -- Voluntaristic Gender Inequality -- The Structure of Gender Inequality -- Concepts and Theory: Changing Gender Inequality -- Unintentional Change -- Intentional Change -- Summary -- Taking the Perspective: Feminism -- Building Your Theory Toolbox -- ch. 8 Structuring Class---Pierre Bourdieu -- The Big Picture: Class -- Theorist's Digest -- Concepts and Theory: Structuring Class -- Four Kinds of Capital -- Habitus -- Fields -- Concepts and Theory: Replicating Class -- Linguistic Markets -- Symbolic Struggle -- Concepts and Theory: Toward a New Sociology -- Dialecticism and a Theory of Practice -- Reflexive Sociology -- Summary -- Taking the Perspective: Cultural Embodiment -- Building Your Theory Toolbox -- ch. 9 Structures of Power---Michel Foucault -- The Big Picture: Power -- Theorist's Digest --

Contents note continued: Concepts and Theory: The Truth About Truth -- Uncovering Truth -- Why So Critical? -- Concepts and Theory: The Practices of Power -- The Power of Order -- The Power of Discourse -- The Power of Objectification -- Concepts and Theory: Disciplining the Body -- The Disciplines of the Human Sciences -- The Discipline of Medicine -- Disciplining Sex -- Greek Sexuality -- Western Modern Sexuality -- Summary -- Taking the Perspective: Poststructuralism -- Building Your Theory Toolbox -- ch. 10 World-Systems Theory---Immanuel Wallerstein -- The Big Picture: Globalization -- Theorist's Digest -- Concepts and Theory: The Dialectics of Capitalism -- The Division of Labor and Exploitation -- Accumulation and Overproduction -- Concepts and Theory: The End of the World as We Know It -- World-Empires and World-Economies -- Kondratieff Waves -- The Modern Crisis -- Structural and Cultural Signs of the End -- Summary -- Taking the Perspective: World-Systems Theory --

Contents note continued: Building Your Theory Toolbox -- ch. 11 The Network Society---Manuel Castells -- The Big Picture: Network Society -- Theorist's Digest -- Concepts and Theory: Information Technology -- Power, Politics, and Class in the Network Society -- 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 -- pt. IV MODERNITY---POSSIBILITIES AND PROBLEMS -- The Big Picture: Civil Society and Democracy -- ch. 12 Reason and Democracy---Jurgen Habermas -- The Big Picture: Social Change -- Theorist's Digest -- Concepts and Theory: Capitalism and Legitimation -- Liberal Capitalism and the Hope of Modernity -- Organized Capitalism and the Legitimation Crisis -- Concepts and Theory: The Colonization of Democracy -- Colonization of the Lifeworld -- Colonization of the Public Sphere -- Concepts and Theory: Hope for Democracy --

Contents note continued: The Hope of Critical Theory -- The Hope of Speech Communities -- The Hope of Civil Society -- Summary -- Taking the Perspective: Critical Theory -- Building Your Theory Toolbox -- ch. 13 Civil Society and Democracy---Jeffrey C. Alexander -- The Big Picture: Solidarity -- Theorist's Digest -- Concepts and Theory: The New Civil Sphere -- Defining the Civil Sphere -- Concepts and Theory: Civil Institutions -- Communicative Institutions -- Regulative Institutions -- Concepts and Theory: Civil Society Outcomes -- Civil Repair and Social Movements -- Justice and Incorporating the Other -- Summary -- Taking the Perspective: A Strong Program in Cultural Sociology -- Building Your Theory Toolbox -- ch. 14 Runaway Modernity---Anthony Giddens -- The Big Picture: Social Ontology -- Theorist's Digest -- Concepts and Theory: The Reality of Society -- The Way Society Exists -- Step 1 Understanding Two Things at Once -- Step 2 The Stuff of Social Structures --

Contents note continued: Step 3 Expressing Structure and Creating Social Order -- Making Society and Hiding It -- Unconscious Motivation -- Concepts and Theory: The Contours of Modernity -- Radical Reflexivity -- Empting Time and Space -- Institutions and Disembedding Mechanisms -- Globalization -- Concepts and Theory: The Experience of Modernity -- The Reflexive Project of the Self -- Pure Relationships -- Choice and Life Politics -- Summary -- Building Your Theory Toolbox -- pt. V CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL IDENTITIES -- The Big Picture: Politics of Identities -- ch. 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 -- Black Feminist Epistemology -- Eurocentric Positivism -- Four Tenets of Black Feminist Epistemology -- Implications of Black Feminist Thought -- Black Intellectuals --

Contents note continued: Concepts and Theory: Intersectionality and Matrices of Domination -- Black Feminist Thought, Intersectionality, and Activism -- Summary -- Commodification of Black Experience---Cornel West -- Theorist's Digest -- Concepts and Theory: Black Existence in America -- Black Nihilism -- Crisis in Black Leadership -- Leadership for Equality -- Summary -- Building Your Theory Toolbox -- ch. 16 Text, Power, and Women---Dorothy E. Smith -- Theorist's Digest -- Concepts and Theory: The Problem With Facts -- Method, Not Theory -- The New Materialism -- Texts and Facts -- Concepts and Theory: Lived Experience and Knowing -- Sociology and the Relations of Ruling -- The Fault Line of Gender -- Standpoint and Text-Mediated Power -- Summary -- Building Your Theory Toolbox -- ch. 17 Exposing Sex---Judith Butler -- Theorist's Digest -- Concepts and Theory: What's the Matter With Bodies? -- Inscribing the Body -- Performity---Declaring a Reality -- The Doer and the Deed --

Contents note continued: Concepts and Theory: Haunting, Subversion, and Queer Politics -- Summary -- Taking the Perspective: Poststructuralism and Queer Theory -- Building Your Theory Toolbox -- Conclusion: Post-Thinking -- Postcolonialism -- Postmodernism -- Concluding Thoughts.