Overview

Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory is a ""hybrid"" between a core textbook and a secondary reader. This Second Edition, along with others in the same series, combines the major writings of sociology′s core classical and contemporary theorists with a historical and theoretical framework for understanding them. It provides not just a biographical and theoretical summary of each theorist/reading, but an overarching scaffolding which students can use to examine, compare, and contrast each theorists′ major themes and concepts. No other theory text combines such student-friendly explanation and analysis with original theoretical works.

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Author:   Scott Appelrouth ,  Laura D. Edles
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 20.30cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.560kg
ISBN:  

9781412992336

ISBN 10:   1412992338
Pages:   888
Publication Date:   05 October 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9781452203621
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction PART I FOUNDATIONS OF CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY 2. Karl Marx 3. Émile Durkheim 4. Max Weber PART II CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: EXPANDING THE FOUNDATION 5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman 6. Georg Simmel 7. W. E. B. Du Bois 8. George Herbert Mead PART III TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITIONS 9. Structural Functionalism Talcott Parsons Robert K. Merton 10. Critical Theory Max Horkheimer Theodor Adorno Herbert Marcuse 11. Exchange and Rational Choice Theories George Homans Peter Blau Peter Blau James Coleman 12. Symbolic Interactionism and Dramaturgy Erving Goffman Arlie Russell Hochschild 13. Phenomenology Alfred Schutz Peter Berger Thomas Luckmann PART IV BROADENING SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY 14. Feminist and Gender Theories Dorothy Smith Patricia Hill Collins R.W. Connell Judith Butler 15. Poststructural and Postmodern Theories Michel Foucault Jean Baudrillard 16. Contemporary Theoretical Syntheses Pierre Bourdieu Jürgen Habermas Anthony Giddens 17. The Global Society Immanuel Wallerstein George Ritzer Edward Said Glossary and Terminology References Image Source Information Index

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Scott Appelrouth (PhD, New York University, 2000) is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Northridge. His interests include sociological theory, cultural sociology, and social movements. He has taught classical and contemporary theory at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and has published several articles in research- and teaching-oriented journals on social movements, theory, and the controversies over jazz during the 1920s and rap during the 1980s. His current research focuses on political discourse in American party platforms. Laura Desfor Edles (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1990) is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Northridge. She is the author of Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain: The Transition to Democracy after Franco (1998) and Cultural Sociology in Practice (2002), as well as various articles on culture, theory, race/ethnicity, and social movements.

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