The Social Lens: An Invitation to Social and Sociological Theory

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Pine Forge Press, 2007 - 607 頁
The Social Lens: An Invitation to Social and Sociological Theory covers the key thinkers in Western thought for the past 200 years. Written in a conversational style that is both appealing and provocative, this text uses real life examples to draw readers in and invite them to consider the ideas that have shaped our understanding of society.
 

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Capitalism and Engines of Social
9
The Basic Dynamics of Capitalism
16
Rationality and the Bureaucratic
41
Class Authority
54
Cultural Diversity and Social
71
The Individual in Modern
105
The Challenges of Gender
137
THEORY
167
Interactionist TheoriesHerbert
301
Exchange TheoryPeter M Blau
351
CONTEMPORARY
381
The Experience of Modernity
404
WorldSystemsImmanuel Wallerstein
431
Identity PoliticsDorothy E Smith
471
PostTheoriesMichel
519
References
569

Structural FunctionalismTalcott
175
Conflict and Critical Theories
211
Collins Summary
241
Structures of InequalityRace
265
Glossary
579
Index
599
About the Author
607
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Kenneth Allan is Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of California at Riverside, 1995). Most recent teaching is in the areas of: Sociological Theory, Social Psychology, and Sociology of Culture. He has published numerous articles in theory, and a book in 1998, The Meaning of Culture, explicating cultural theory. He also contributed to Turner's last two editions of The Structure of Sociological Theory. Over the past eight years he has taught well over 30 courses in social theory.

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