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Author:   Piotr Sztompka
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.639kg
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9781032763507

ISBN 10:   1032763507
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   24 February 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Part I: The legacy. On the shoulders of giants 1. Sociological theory; the concepts, varieties and uses 2. Pseudo-theories and pseudo-epistemology 3. The Long 19th century; on the shoulders of giants 4. The Golden Era of Theory, the 20th century 5. New trends in the sociological theories of the 21st century Part II: Continuities and emerging new trends Theories With a Moral Message; In Search for a Good Society 6. Jeffrey C. Alexander’s cultural sociology; from civil sphere to performative actions and societalization 7. Gary Allan Fine on tiny publics; civil sphere at the micro-level of everyday life 8. Axel Honneth on new critical theory; focus on recognition 9. Ulrich Beck on cosmopolitanism; world society after globalization 10. Allain Caille on gift paradigm; the focus on reciprocity Theories Of Microcomponents of Social Life; Dissecting the Social Fabric 11. Jonathan Turner on radical microsociology; interactions and their emotional syntax 12. Randall Collins’ processual and emotional perspective; interactive ritual chains, violence and charisma 13. Hans Joas on new pragmatism; the focus on practices and creative actions Theories Analyzing Mechanisms of Social Events; Unravelling the Modus Operandi Of Society 14. Jon Elster on continuities in rational choice and the theory of emotions 15. Peter Hedstrom on analytic sociology and the theory of imitation 16. Margaret Archer unravelling the mechanism of social change and morphogenesis 17. Theodor Schatzky on the ontology of society and the idea of social sites 18. Coda: Robert K. Merton revisited; on theoretical pluralism and disciplined eclecticism Bibliography

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In A Critical Introduction to Contemporary Social Theory, eminent scholar Piotr Sztompka takes us on an illuminating guided tour of key contemporary sociological theories. A compelling volume for established scholars and an ideal text for graduate instruction. Viviana A. Zelizer, Lloyd Cotsen ’50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, and author of Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy This is a majestic overview of sociological theorizing that covers its many threads as it weaves them into a coherent totality. Piotr Sztompka has an excellent grasp of these threads and is unique in being as able to explain the nuances of discipline oriented formal analytic theorizing (of Hedstrom) as the more loosely coherent social theorizing of critical theorists like Butler and Burawoy. This is an outstanding and very timely book with the promise of a long shelf-life. Ron Eyerman, Professor of Sociology at Yale University, and author of Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African-American Identity

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Piotr Sztompka is an honorary professor of sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, He was a visiting professor at Columbia University (NY) and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as universities in Europe, Australia, and Latin America. He was elected the President of International Sociological Association (ISA). Among his books published in English are Sociological Dilemmas: Toward a Dialectic Paradigm (1979), The Sociology of Social Change (1993), Society in Action: The Theory of Social Becoming (1991), and Trust: a Sociological Theory (1999).

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