History and Theory

by Carter, Shannon

• ISBN13: 9780816083152
• ISBN10: 0816083150
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-02
• Publisher: Facts on File

Summary

How did the study of sociology develop? History and Theory focuses or? the development of sociological theorists' ideas about society and social research over time. Ideas of major classical theorists such as Auguste Comte, Karl Marx and Max Weber are explored as well as a range of schools of thought in sociology, including structural functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, ethnometh-odology, critical theory, and postmodernism and emancipatory theories.

Author Biography

Shannon K. Carter received her Ph.D. at the University of Florida and currently teaches at the University of Central Florida. Her research has been published in such journals as Gender Issues and Sociology of Health and Illness. Lillian O'Connell holds a Master's degree in Sociology from the University of Central Florida and is pursuing a doctoral degree in sociology at North Carolina State University. Her research and teaching interests include environmental sociology, sustainability, and stratification. Anne Bubriski-McKenzie holds a Masters degree in Women's Studies from Southern Connecticut State University and is a doctoral student in Sociology at the University of Central Florida. Her research and teaching interests include social inequality and family at the intersections of gender, race, and class. General editor Liz Grauerholz received her Ph.D. from Indiana University and is a professor of sociology at the University of Central Florida. Her publications include Sociology of Families, Second Edition and she is currently the editor of the journal Teaching Sociology.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Purpose of Social Theory	p. 3
History of Sociology	p. 11
Early Classical Social Theorists	p. 19
Later Classical Social Theorists	p. 39
Three Major Paradigms	p. 57
Social Life and the Realm of Ideas	p. 73
Poststructuralist and Postmodern Theories	p. 89
Feminist Theories	p. 105
Theories of Emancipation	p. 119
Theory and the Real World	p. 135
Glossary	p. 143
Bibliography	p. 153
Index	p. 155
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