This book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the roots, current debates and future development of social theory. It draws together a team of international scholars, and presents an authoritative and panoramic critical survey of the field.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction - George Ritzer and Barry Smart
Theorists, Theories and Theorizing
PART ONE: CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY
Modernity, Enlightenment, Revolution and Romanticism - John Rundell
Creating Social Theory
The Origins of Positivism - Jonathan H Turner
The Contributions of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer
Maintaining Marx - Gregor McLennan
Max Weber - Sam Whimster
Work and Interpretation
The Continuing Relevance of Georg Simmel - Birgitta Nedelmann
Staking Out Anew the Field of Sociology
Durkheim s Project for a Sociological Science - Mike Gane
The Emergence of the New - Hans Joas
Mead s Theory and Its Contemporary Potential
Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge - David Kettler and Volker Meja
Psychoanalysis and Sociology - John O Neill
From Freudo-Marxism to Freudo-Feminism
Classical Feminist Social Theory - Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley
PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY
Functional, Conflict and Neofunctional Theories - Mark Abrahamson
Talcott Parsons - Robert J Holton
Conservative Apologist or Irreplaceable Icon?
Nietzsche - Robert J Antonio
Social Theory in the Twilight of the Millennium
Critical Theory - Craig Calhoun and Joseph Karaganis
J[um]urgen Habermas Theory of Communicative Action - Richard Harvey Brown and Douglas Goodman
An Incomplete Project
Symbolic Interactionism at the End of the Century - Kent L Sandstrom, Daniel D Martin and Gary Alan Fine
Phenomenology and Social Theory - Harvie Ferguson
Fundamentals of Ethnomethodology - Wes Sharrock
Theories of Social Exchange and Exchange Networks - Linda D Molm
Sociological Rational Choice - Douglas D Heckathorn
Contemporary Feminist Theory - Mary F Rogers
Multiculturalism - Charles Lemert
Social Theory and the Postmodern - Stephen Crook
Michel Foucault - Mitchell Dean
`A Man in Danger
The Macro/Micro Problem and the Problem of Structure and Agency - Barry Barnes
Norbert Elias and Process Sociology - Robert van Krieken
PART THREE: ISSUES IN SOCIAL THEORY
Positivism in the Twentieth Century - Peter Halfpenny
Metatheorizing in Sociology - Shanyang Zhao
Cultural Studies and Social Theory - Douglas Kellner
A Critical Intervention
Theories of Consumption - George Ritzer, Douglas Goodman and Wendy Wiedenhoft
Sexualities - Anthony Elliott
Social Theory and the Crisis of Identity
The Embodied Foundations of Social Theory - Chris Shilling
Globalization Theory 2000+ - Roland Robertson
Major Problematics
Nationalism - Gerard Delanty
Between Nation and State
Socialism - Peter Beilharz
Modern Hopes, Postmodern Shadows
Modern Societies as Knowledge Societies - Nico Stehr
Sociology, Morality and Ethics - Barry Smart
On Being with Others
Postsocial Relations - Karin Knorr Cetina
Theorizing Sociality in a Post-social Environment
