Contemporary Sociological Theory

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

• ISBN13: 9780470655665
• ISBN10: 0470655666
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This comprehensive collection of contemporary sociological theory is the definitive guide to current perspectives and approaches in the field, examining key topics and debates in the field. Collects the most representative material available on topics such as symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, structuralism, network theory, critical theory, feminist theory, and the debates over modernity and postmodernity Includes examinations of the work of Foucault, Giddens, and Bourdieu A new section for this edition opens up the debate on power and inequality Thematically organized

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

Micro-Sociological Analysis Introduction to Part I

The Phenomenology of the Social World

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Symbolic Interactionism

Interaction Ritual Chains

Exchange and Rationality Introduction to Part II

Social Behavior as Exchange

Exchange and Power in social life

The Logic of Collective Action

Theory of Group Solidarity

Cooperation without Trust

Institutions & Networks Introduction to Part III

Economic Embeddedness

The Iron Cage Revisited

CATNETS

Structural Holes

Power and Inequality Introduction to Part IV

The Power Elite

On Hegemony

Coercion, Capital and European States

Power: A Radical View

State, Society, and Modern History

The Sociological Theory of Foucault Introduction to Part V

The History of Sexuality

Truth and Power

Discipline and Punish

The Sociological Theory of Pierre Bourdieu Introduction to Part VI

Social Space and Symbolic Space

Structures, Habitus, Practices

The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed

Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field

Race, Gender, Difference Introduction to Part VII

The Conceptual Practices of Power

Black Feminist Thought

Black Skin, White Masks

The Paradoxes of Integration

Sociological Theory of Jurgen Habermas Introduction to Part VIII

Modernity: An Unfinished Project

The Rationalization of the Life-World

Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere

Learning from Catastrophe

Modernity Introduction to Part IX

Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint

Modernity and the Holocaust

Consequences of Modernity

We Have Never Been Modern

Crisis and Change Introduction to Part X

Systemic and Antisystemic Crises

The Rise of the Network Society

Reconfiguring Territory, Authority, and Rights

The Modern World System in Crisis

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