Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory (eBook)

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
About the Authors
Chapter 1. Introduction
Key Concepts
What Is Sociological Theory?
Why Read Original Works?
Navigating Sociological Theory: The Questions of “Order” and “Action”
The European Enlightenment
The Ins and Outs of the Sociological Theory “Canon”
Discussion Questions
PART I. FOUNDATIONS OF CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
Chapter 2. Karl Marx (1818–1883)
Key Concepts
A Biographical Sketch
Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Marx’s Theoretical Orientation
Discussion Questions
Chapter 3. Émile Durkheim (1858–1917)
Key Concepts
A Biographical Sketch
Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Durkheim’s Theoretical Orientation
Discussion Questions
Chapter 4. Max Weber (1864–1920)
Key Concepts
A Biographical Sketch
Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Weber’s Theoretical Orientation
Discussion Questions
PART II. CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: EXPANDING THE FOUNDATION
Chapter 5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
Key Concepts
A Biographical Sketch
Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Gilman’s Theoretical Orientation
Discussion Questions
Chapter 6. Georg Simmel (1858–1918)
Key Concepts
A Biographical Sketch
Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Simmel’s Theoretical Orientation
Discussion Questions
Chapter 7. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963)
Key Concepts
A Biographical Sketch
Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Du Bois’s Theoretical Orientation
Discussion Questions
Chapter 8. George Herbert Mead (1863–1931)
Key Concepts
A Biographical Sketch
Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Mead’s Theoretical Orientation
Discussion Questions
PART III. TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITIONS
Chapter 9. Structural Functionalism
Key Concepts
Talcott C. Parsons (1902–1979): A Biographical Sketch
Parsons’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Parsons’s Theoretical Orientation
Robert K. Merton (1910–2003): A Biographical Sketch
Merton’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Merton’s Theoretical Orientation
Discussion Questions
Chapter 10. Critical Theory
Key Concepts
Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse: Biographical Sketches
Adorno’s and Marcuse’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Adorno’s and Marcuse’s Theoretical Orientations
Jürgen Habermas (1929– ): A Biographical Sketch
Habermas’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Habermas’s Theoretical Orientation
Patricia Hill Collins (1948– ): A Biographical Sketch
Collins’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Collins’s Theoretical Orientation
Discussion Questions
Chapter 11. Exchange and Rational Choice Theories
Key Concepts
George C. Homans (1910–1989): A Biographical Sketch
Homans’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Homans’s Theoretical Orientation
Peter M. Blau (1918–2002): A Biographical Sketch
Blau’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Blau’s Theoretical Orientation
James S. Coleman (1926–1995): A Biographical Sketch
Coleman’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Coleman’s Theoretical Orientation
Discussion Questions
Chapter 12. Symbolic Interactionism and Dramaturgy
Key Concepts
Symbolic Interactionism: An Overview
Erving Goffman (1922–1982): A Biographical Sketch
Goffman’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Goffman’s Theoretical Orientation
Arlie Russell Hochschild (1940– ): A Biographical Sketch
Hochschild’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Hochschild’s Theoretical Orientation
Discussion Questions
Chapter 13. Phenomenology
Key Concepts
Alfred Schutz (1899–1959): A Biographical Sketch
Schutz’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Schutz’s Theoretical Orientation
Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann: Biographical Sketches
Berger and Luckmann’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Berger and Luckmann’s Theoretical Orientation
Ethnomethodology: An Overview
Dorothy E. Smith (1926– ): A Biographical Sketch
Smith’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Smith’s Theoretical Orientation
Discussion Questions
Chapter 14. Poststructuralism
Key Concepts
Defining Poststructuralism
Michel Foucault (1926–1984): A Biographical Sketch
Foucault’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Foucault’s Theoretical Orientation
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002): A Biographical Sketch
Bourdieu’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Bourdieu’s Theoretical Orientation
Edward Said (1935–2003): A Biographical Sketch
Said’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Said’s Theoretical Orientation
Discussion Questions
Chapter 15. Postmodernism
Key Concepts
Defining Postmodernism
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007): A Biographical Sketch
Baudrillard’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Baudrillard’s Theoretical Orientation
Judith Butler (1956– ): A Biographical Sketch
Butler’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Butler’s Theoretical Orientation
Discussion Questions
Chapter 16. The Global Society
Key Concepts
Defining Globalization
Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019): A Biographical Sketch
Wallerstein’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Wallerstein’s Theoretical Orientation
Anthony Giddens (1938– ): A Biographical Sketch
Giddens’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Giddens’s Theoretical Orientation
Ulrich Beck (1944–2015): A Biographical Sketch
Beck’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Beck’s Theoretical Orientation
George Ritzer (1940– ): A Biographical Sketch
Ritzer’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
Ritzer’s Theoretical Orientation
Discussion Questions
Glossary and Terminology
References
Index