The social lens : an invitation to social and sociological theory
"This textbook's tone invites the student reader in to explore with the author each new chapter of uncovered ground ... Allan also encourages students to think beyond the theory on the page to its implications for global society by providing what he calls 'theory you can use' ... a fresh, new and bold approach to the theory textbook."--Barbara J. Denison, Shippensburg University, Teaching Sociology, 36, pp. 161-184 (April, 2008)
Print Book, English, ©2011
Pine Forge Press/Sage Publications, Los Angeles, ©2011
xvi, 661 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9781412978347, 1412978343
505927342
pt. I. Modernity and the sociological response
1. Sociology theory and the modern agenda
2. The evolution of society: Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
3. Contradictions in capitalism: Karl Marx (1818-1883)
4. The irrationality of rationality: Max Weber (1864-1920)
5. the problem with diversity: Emile Durkheim
6. The modern person: George Herbert Mead and Georg Simmel
7. The challenges of gender and race:Charlotte Perkins Gilman and W.E.B. DuBois
pt. II. Mid-Twentieth Century Sociological theory
8. Structural functionalism: Talcott Parsons and Robert K. Merton
Conflict theory: Lewis Coser, Ralf Dahrendorf, and Randall Collins
10. Structures of racial and gender inequality: William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz
11. Exchange theory: George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins
12. The late modern person and the situation: Erving Goffman, Harold Garfinkel, and R.S. Perinbanayagam
13. Critical theory: Jurgen Habermas (1929- )
pt. III. Contemporary new visions and critiques
14. Toward a new vision of society: Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu
15. Globalizing systems: Immanuel Wallerstein and Manuel Castells
16. Upsetting reality: Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard
17. Politics of identity: Dorothy E. Smith, Patricia Hill Collins, and Cornel West