This comprehensive collection of contemporary sociological theory is the definitive guide to current perspectives and approaches in the field, examining key topics and debates in the field. Collects the most representative material available on topics such as symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, structuralism, network theory, critical theory, feminist theory, and the debates over modernity and postmodernity Includes examinations of the work of Foucault, Giddens, and Bourdieu A new section for this edition opens up the debate on power and inequality Thematically organized INDICE: Part I: Micro-Sociological Analysis Introduction to Part I. 1. ThePhenomenology of the Social World (Alfred Schutz). 2. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Erving Goffman). 3. Symbolic Interactionism (Herbert Blumer). 4. Interaction Ritual Chains (Randall Collins). Part II: Exchange and Rationality Introduction to Part II. 5. Social Behavior as Exchange (George C. Homans). 6. Exchange and Power in social life (Peter M. Blau). 7. The Logic of Collective Action (Mancur Olson). 8. Theory of Group Solidarity (Michael Hechter). 9. Cooperation without Trust (Karen S. Cook, Russell Hardin & Margaret Levi). Part III: Institutions & Networks Introduction to Part III. 10. Economic Embeddedness (Mark Granovetter). 11. The Iron Cage Revisited (Paul J. Dimaggio &Walter L. Powell). 12. CATNETS (Harrison White). 13. Structural Holes (RonaldS. Burt). Part IV: Power and Inequality Introduction to Part IV. 14. The Power Elite (C. Wright Mills). 15. On Hegemony (Antonio Gramsci). 16. Coercion, Capital and European States (Charles Tilly). 17. Power: A Radical View (Steven Lukes). 18. State, Society, and Modern History (Anthony Giddens). Part V: The Sociological Theory of Foucault Introduction to Part V. 19. The History of Sexuality. 20. Truth and Power. 21. Discipline and Punish. Part VI: The Sociological Theory of Pierre Bourdieu Introduction to Part VI. 22. Social Space and Symbolic Space. 23. Structures, Habitus, Practices. 24. The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed. 25. Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field. Part VII: Race, Gender, Difference Introduction to Part VII. 26. The Conceptual Practices of Power (Dorothy E. Smith). 27. Black Feminist Thought (Patricia Hill Collins). 28. Black Skin, White Masks (Frantz Fanon). 29. The Paradoxes of Integration (Orlando Patterson). PartVIII: Sociological Theory of Jurgen Habermas Introduction to Part VIII. 30. Modernity: An Unfinished Project. 31. The Rationalization of the Life-World. 32. Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere. 33. Learning from Catastrophe. Part IX: Modernity Introduction to Part IX. 34. Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint (Nobert Elias). 35. Modernity and the Holocaust (Zygmunt Bauman). 36. Consequences of Modernity (Anthony Giddens). 37. We Have Never Been Modern (Bruno Latour). Part X: Crisis and Change Introduction to Part X. 38. Systemic and Antisystemic Crises (Giovanni Arrighi). 39. The Rise of the Network Society (Manuel Castells). 40. Reconfiguring Territory, Authority, and Rights (Saskia Sassen). 41. The Modern World System in Crisis (Immanuel Wallerstein).
- ISBN: 978-0-470-65566-5
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 606
- Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés