 |  Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics, 2/e George Ritzer,
University of Maryland
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction
Creating Sociological Theory
Defining Sociological Theory
Creating Sociological Theory: A More Realistic View
Overview of the Book Chapter 2. Classical Theories-I
Emile Durkheim
Karl Marx
Max Weber Chapter 3. Classical Theories-II
Georg Simmel
Thorstein Veblen
George Herbert Mead Chapter 4. Contemporary Grand Theories-I
Structural Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Systems Theory Chapter 5. Contemporary Grand Theories-II
Neo-Marxian Theory
The Civilizing Process
Colonizing the Lifeworld
The Juggernaut of Modernity Chapter 6. Contemporary Theories of Everyday Life
Symbolic Interactionism
Dramaturgy
Ethnomethodology
Exchange Theory
Rational Choice Theory Chapter 7. Contemporary Integrative Theories
A More Integrated Exchange Theory
Structuration Theory
Culture and Agency
Habitus and Field Chapter 8. Contemporary Feminist Theories (by Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge)
Gender Difference
Gender Inequality
Gender Oppression
Structural Oppression Chapter 9. Postmodern Grand Theories
The Transition from Industrial to Postindustrial Society
Increasing Governmentality (and other Grand Theories)
Postmodernity as Modernity’s Coming of Age
The Rise of Consumer Society, Loss of Symbolic
Exchange, and Increase in Simulations
The Consumer Society and the New Means of Consumption
Dromology
Feminism and Postmodern Social Theory (by Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge)
Chapter 10. Globalization Theory
Major Contemporary Theorists on Globalization
Cultural Theory
Economic Theory
Political Theory |
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