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Part I: Modernity and the Sociological ResponseChapter 1. On Theory   A Lesson From History   Critical Thinking and Theory   Theory in Brief   Building Your Theory ToolboxChapter 2. The Evolution of Society: Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)   Theorist′s Digest   The Life and Times of Herbert Spencer   Concepts and Theory: Social Evolution   Concepts and Theory: Social Institutions   Summary   Building Your Theory ToolboxChapter 3. Contradictions in Capitalism: Karl Marx (1818-1883)   Theorist′s Digest   The Life and Times of Karl Marx   Concepts and Theory: Human Nature and History   Concepts and Theory: Contradictions in Capitalism   Concepts and Theory: The Problem of Consciousness   Summary   Building Your Theory ToolboxChapter 4. The Irrationality of Rationality: Max Weber (1864-1920)   Theorist′s Digest   The Life and Times of Max Weber   Concepts and Theory: The Rationalization of Society--Religion   Concepts and Theory: The Rationalization of Society--Capitalism   Concepts and Theory: The Rationalization of Society--Bureaucracy   Concepts and Theory: Class, Authority, and Social Change   Summary   Building Your Theory ToolboxChapter 5. The Problem With Diversity: Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)   Theorist′s Digest   The Life and Times of Emile Durkheim   Concepts and Theory: Religious Roots of Society   Concepts and Theory: Social Diversity and Morality   Concepts and Theory: Individualism in Modern Society   Summary   Building Your Theory ToolboxChapter 6. The Modern Person: George Herbert Mead and Georg Simmel   George Herbert Mead (1863-1931)   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Truth, Meaning, and Action   Concepts and Theory: Meaning and Interaction   Concepts and Theory: Making Yourself   Summary   Georg Simmel (1858-1918)   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: The Individual in Society   Concepts and Theory: The Self in the City   Summary   Building Your Theory ToolboxChapter 7. The Challenges of Gender and Race: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and W. E. B. Du Bois   Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: The Social Evolution of Gender   Summary   W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Cultural Oppression   Concepts and Theory: The Dark Nations and World Capitalism   Summary   Building Your Theory ToolboxPart II: Contemporary Sociological TheoryChapter 8. Structural Functionalism: Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Merton, and Jeffrey C. Alexander   Social Systems: Talcott Parsons   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Making the Social System   Concepts and Theory: System Functions and Control   Summary   Unanticipated Consequences and Ambivalence: Robert K. Merton   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Critiquing Parsons′ Functionalism   Concepts and Theory: Dynamic Functionalism   Summary   Democracy and Civil Society: Jeffrey C. Alexander   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: The New Civil Sphere   Concepts and Theory: Civil Institutions   Concepts and Theory: Civil Society Outcomes   Summary   Building Your Theory ToolboxChapter 9. Conflict Theory: Lewis Coser, Ralf Dahrendorf, and Randall Collins   The Functional Consequences of Conflict: Lewis Coser   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Variation in Conflict   Concepts and Theory: The Integrating Forces of Conflict   Summary   Power and Dialectical Change: Ralf Dahrendorf   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Power and Group Interests   Concepts and Theory: Conditions of Conflict and Social Change   Summary   Emotion and the World in Conflict: Randall Collins   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Four Main Points in Conflict Sociology   Concepts and Theory: Geopolitics   Summary   Building Your Theory ToolboxChapter 10: What Happened to Class? Erik Olin Wright, Daniel Bell, and Pierre Bourdieu   Making Class Count: Erik Olin Wright   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Analytical Marxism   Concepts and Theory: Specifying Class   Summary   Postindustrial Society: Daniel Bell   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Rethinking Society   Concepts and Theory: The Decline of Class   Concepts and Theory: Polity and Culture   Summary   Embodying Class: Pierre Bourdieu   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Structuring Class   Concepts and Theory: Replicating Class   Summary   Building Your Theory ToolboxChapter 11. Structures of Racial and Gender Inequality: William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz   The Declining Significance of Race: William Julius Wilson   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: American Racial History   Concepts and Theory: Policy Implications   Summary   Structures of Gender Inequality: Janet Saltzman Chafetz   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Coercive Structures of Gender Inequality   Concepts and Theory: Changing Gender Inequality   Summary   Building Your Theory ToolboxChapter 12. Exchange Theory: George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins   Elementary Forms of Social Behavior: George Homans   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Basic Principles of Behavioral Psychology   Summary   Social Exchanges and Power: Peter Blau   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Social Exchanges   Concepts and Theory: Creating Power and 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 (IRCs)   Concepts and Theory: The Ritualized Production of Stratification   Summary   Building Your Theory ToolboxChapter 13. Self and Situation: Erving Goffman, R. S. Perinbanayagam, and Harold Garfinkel   Managing Your Self-Image: Erving Goffman   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Impression Management   Concepts and Theory: Frames and Keys   Summary   The Language of the Self: R. S. Perinbanayagam   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Dialogic Acts and Agency   Concepts and Theory: Language of Identity   Summary   Organizing Ordinary Life: Harold Garfinkel   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Everyday Social Order as an Accomplishment   Concepts and Theory: Doing Society--Reflexively   Summary   Building Your Theory ToolboxPart III: Contemporary New Visions and CritiquesChapter 14. Problems in Modernity: Jurgen Habermas and Anthony Giddens   Democracy in Danger: Jurgen Habermas   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Capitalism and Legitimation   Concepts and Theory: The Colonization of Democracy   Concepts and Theory: Communicative Action and Civil Society   Summary   Runaway Modernity: Anthony Giddens   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: The Dynamics of Modernity   Concepts and Theory: The Experience of Modernity   Summary   Building Your Theory ToolboxChapter 15. Globalizing Systems: Immanuel Wallerstein and Manuel Castells   Global Capitalism: Immanuel Wallerstein   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: The Dialectics of Capitalism   Concepts and Theory: The End of the World as We Know It   Summary   The Network Society: Manuel Castells   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Information Technology   Concepts and Theory: Networks, Identities, and Democracy   Summary   Building Your Theory ToolboxChapter 16. Upsetting Reality: Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard   Defining the Possible and Impossible: Michel Foucault   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: The Truth About Truth   Concepts and Theory: The Practices of Power   Concepts and Theory: Disciplining the Body   Summary   The End of Everything: Jean Baudrillard   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Mediating the World   Concepts and Theory: Losing the World   Concepts and Theory: The Postmodern Person   Summary   Building Your Theory ToolboxChapter 17. Politics of Identity: Dorothy E. Smith, Patricia Hill Collins, and Cornel West   Gendered Consciousness: Dorothy E. Smith   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: The Problem With Facts   Concepts and Theory: The Standpoint of Women   Summary   Race and Matrices of Domination: Patricia Hill Collins   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: The Standpoint of Black Women   Concepts and Theory: Intersectionality and Matrices of Domination   Summary   Race and Democracy: Cornel West   Theorist′s Digest   Concepts and Theory: Black Existence in America   Concepts and Theory: The Post-Democratic Age   Summary   Building Your Theory ToolboxReferencesIndexAbout the Author

An undergraduate introduction to both classical and contemporary social theory.

The social lens : an invitation to social and sociological theory