Chapter Outline

I. Early American Sociological Theory

A. Politics

B. Social Change and Intellectual Currents

C. The Chicago School

1. Biographical Sketch: Thorstein Veblen

2. Biographical Sketch: Robert Park

II. Women in Early Sociology

III. W.E.B. Du Bois and Race Theory

A. Biographical Sketch: W.

E.B. Du Bois

IV. Sociological Theory to Mid-Century

A. The Rise of Harvard, the Ivy League, and Structural Functionalism

B. The Chicago School in Decline

C. Developments in Marxian Theory

D. Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge

V. Sociological Theory from Mid-Century

A. Structural Functionalism: Peak and Decline

B. Radical Sociology in America: C. Wright Mills

1. Biographical Sketch: C. Wright Mills

C. The Development of Conflict Theory

D. The Birth of Exchange Theory

E. Dramaturgical Analysis: The Work of Erving Goffman

F. The Development of Sociologies of Everyday Life

G. The Rise and Fall (?) of Marxian Sociology

H. The Challenge of Feminist Theory

I. Structuralism and Poststructuralism

VI. Recent Developments in Sociological Theory

A. Micro-Macro Integration

B. Agency-Structure Integration

C. Theoretical Syntheses

VII. Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity

A. The Defenders of Modernity

B. The Proponents of Postmodernity

VIII. Theories to Watch in the Early Twenty-First Century

A. Multicultural Social Theory

B. Postmodern and Post-Postmodern Social Theories

C. Theories of Consumption

D. Others

VIII. Summary