Introduction to sociological theory : theorists, concepts, and their applicability to the twenty-first century / Michele Dillon.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dillon, Michele, 1960- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Sociology.
Sociology > History.
Soziologische Theorie.
Sociologie > Histoire.
Sociologie.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xx, 565 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Analyzing Social Life
  • Societal Transformation and the Origins of Sociology
  • The Establishment of Sociology
  • The Sociological Craft in the Nineteenth Century
  • Summary
  • Points to Remember
  • Glossary
  • Questions for Review
  • 1. Karl Marx
  • Expansion of Capitalism
  • Marx's Theory of History
  • Human Nature
  • Capitalism as a Distinctive Social Form
  • Wage-Labor
  • The Division of Labor and Alienation
  • Economic Inequality
  • Ideology and Power
  • Summary
  • Points to Remember
  • Glossary
  • Questions for Review
  • 2. Emile Durkheim
  • Durkheim's Methodological Rules
  • The Nature of Society
  • Societal Transformation and Social Cohesion
  • Traditional Society
  • Modern Society
  • Social Conditions of Suicide
  • Religion and the Sacred
  • Summary
  • Points to Remember
  • Glossary
  • Questions for Review
  • 3. Max Weber
  • Sociology: Understanding Social Action
  • Culture and Economic Activity
  • Ideal Types
  • Social Action.
  • Contents note continued: Power, Authority, and Domination
  • Social Stratification
  • Modernity and Competing Values
  • Summary
  • Points to Remember
  • Glossary
  • Questions for Review
  • 4. Talcott Parsons and Robert Merton: Functionalism and Modernization
  • Talcott Parsons
  • The Social System
  • Socialization and Societal Integration
  • Social Differentiation, Culture, and the Secularization of Protestantism
  • Pattern Variables
  • Modernization Theory
  • Stratification and Inequality
  • Robert Merton's Middle-Range Theory
  • Parsons's Legacy: Varied Directions
  • Summary
  • Points to Remember
  • Glossary
  • Questions for Review
  • 5. Critical Theory: Technology, Culture, and Politics
  • Critical Theory
  • Dialectic of Enlightenment
  • Mass Culture and Consumption
  • Politics: Uniformity and Control
  • Jurgen Habermas: The State and Society
  • Summary
  • Points to Remember
  • Glossary
  • Questions for Review
  • 6. Conflict, Power, and Dependency in Macro-Societal Processes.
  • Contents note continued: Ralf Dahrendorf's Theory of Group Conflict
  • C. Wright Mills
  • Dependency Theory: Neo-Marxist Critiques of Economic Development
  • Summary
  • Points to Remember
  • Glossary
  • Questions for Review
  • 7. Exchange, Exchange Network, and Rational Choice Theories
  • Exchange Theory
  • Exchange Network Theory
  • Actor-Network Theory (ANT)
  • Rational Choice Theory
  • Analytical Marxism
  • Summary
  • Points to Remember
  • Glossary
  • Questions for Review
  • 8. Symbolic Interactionism
  • Development of the Self through Social Interaction
  • The Premises of Symbolic Interactionism
  • Erving Goffman: Society as Ritualized Social Interaction
  • Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnographic Research
  • Summary
  • Points to Remember
  • Glossary
  • Questions for Review
  • 9. Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology
  • Phenomenology
  • Ethnomethodology
  • Summary
  • Points to Remember
  • Glossary
  • Questions for Review
  • 10. Feminist Theories.
  • Contents note continued: Consciousness of Women's Inequality
  • Standpoint Theory: Dorothy Smith and the Relations of Ruling
  • Masculinity
  • Patricia Hill Collins: Black Women's Standpoint
  • Sociology of Emotion
  • Arlie Hochschild: Emotional Labor
  • Summary
  • Points to Remember
  • Glossary
  • Questions for Review
  • 11. Michel Foucault: Theorizing Sexuality, the Body, and Power
  • Disciplining the Body
  • Sexuality and Queer Theory
  • Summary
  • Points to Remember
  • Glossary
  • Questions for Review
  • 12. Race, Racism, and the Construction of Racial Otherness
  • Racial Otherness
  • Social Change, Race, and Racism
  • Slavery, Colonialism, and Racial Formation
  • William Du Bois: Slavery and Racial Inequality
  • Race and Class
  • Race, Community, and Democracy
  • Culture and the New Racism
  • Summary
  • Points to Remember
  • Glossary
  • Questions for Review
  • 13. The Social Reproduction of Inequality: Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Class and Culture
  • Social Stratification.
  • Contents note continued: Family and School in the Production of Cultural Capital
  • Taste and Everyday Practices
  • Summary
  • Points to Remember
  • Glossary
  • Questions for Review
  • 14. Economic and Political Globalization
  • What is Globalization?
  • Economic Globalization
  • Immanuel Wallerstein: The Modern World-System
  • Contemporary Globalizing Economic Processes
  • Globalizing Political Processes: The Changing Authority of the Nation-State
  • Migration and Political Mobilization in a Transnational World
  • Summary
  • Points to Remember
  • Glossary
  • Questions for Review
  • 15. Modernities, Cosmopolitanism, and Global Consumer Culture
  • Contrite Modernity
  • Multiple Modernities
  • Global Risk Society
  • Cosmopolitan Modernity
  • The Global Expansion of Human Rights
  • Global Consumer Culture
  • Disembeddedness and Dilemmas of the Self
  • Summary
  • Points to Remember
  • Glossary
  • Questions for Review.