Contemporary Sociological Theory

by Calhoun, Craig; Gerteis, Joseph; Moody, James; Pfaff, Steven; Virk, Indermohan

• ISBN13: 9781405148566
• ISBN10: 140514856X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-02
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This meticulous collection of contemporary sociological theory is the definitive guide to current perspectives and approaches in the field, examining current key topics in the field such as such as symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, structuralism, network theory, critical theory, feminist theory, and the debates over modernity and postmodernity. Includes the work of major figures including Foucault, Giddens, Bourdieu, Bauman, and Habermas Organized thematically, with editorial introductions to put the readings into theoretical perspective New selected readings bring the book up to date

Author Biography

Craig Calhoun is University Professor and Professor of Sociology and History at New York University, and President of the Social Science Research Council.

Joseph Gerteis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

James Moody is Associate Professor of Sociology at Duke University, North Carolina.

Steven Pfaff is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington.

Indermohan Virk is Visiting Lecturer in Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Table of Contents

Notes on the Editors	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
General Introduction	p. 1
Micro-Sociological Analysis	p. 23
Introduction to Part I	p. 25
The Phenomenology of the Social World [1932]	p. 32
The Social Construction of Reality [1966]	p. 43
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life [1959]	p. 52
Symbolic Interactionism [1969]	p. 67
Exchange and Rationality	p. 79
Introduction to Part II	p. 81
Social Behavior as Exchange [1958]	p. 88
Exchange and Power in Social Life [1964]	p. 99
The Logic of Collective Action [1965]	p. 111
Rights to Act [1990]	p. 116
Cooperation without Law or Trust [2005]	p. 125
Institutional Analysis	p. 139
Introduction to Part III	p. 141
The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields [1983]	p. 146
Economic Embeddedness [1985]	p. 162
Catnets [1966]	p. 171
The Sociological Theory of Michel Foucault	p. 183
Introduction to Part IV	p. 185
The History of Sexuality [1976]	p. 191
Truth and Power [1977]	p. 201
Discipline and Punish [1975]	p. 209
The Sociological Theory of Anthony Giddens	p. 217
Introduction to Part V	p. 219
Some New Rules of Sociological Method [1976]	p. 225
Agency, Structure [1979]	p. 231
The Consequences of Modernity [1990]	p. 243
The Sociological Theory of Pierre Bourdieu	p. 257
Introduction to Part VI	p. 259
Social Space and Symbolic Space [1994]	p. 267
Structures, Habitus, Practices [1994]	p. 277
The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed [1993]	p. 290
Race, Gender, and Difference	p. 307
Introduction to Part VII	p. 309
The Conceptual Practices of Power [1990]	p. 318
Black Feminist Epistemology [1990]	p. 327
Black Skin, White Masks [1952]	p. 337
The Paradoxes of Integration [1997]	p. 346
The Sociological Theory of Jurgen Habermas	p. 355
Introduction to Part VIII	p. 357
Modernity: An Unfinished Project [1980]	p. 363
The Rationalization of the Lifeworld [1981]	p. 370
Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere [1996]	p. 388
Modernity and Postmodernity	p. 409
Introduction to Part IX	p. 411
The Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint [1937]	p. 417
Modernity and the Holocaust [1989]	p. 428
We Have Never Been Modern [1991]	p. 448
The Modern World-System in Crisis [2004]	p. 461
Index	p. 473
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