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9780761988250

Key Ideas in Sociology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780761988250

  • ISBN10:

    0761988254

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-12-02
  • Publisher: Pine Forge Press
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Summary

With each passing generation, contemporary members of society are intrigued by how those who lived before them viewed and dealt with their changing world. Newer generations borrow ideas from their predecessors and adapt those ideas to new circumstances in order to define and manage social change. Key Ideas in Sociology, Second Edition explores some of the major ideas that have developed out of this tradition and evaluates their origins, their development, and their relevance at the dawn of the twenty-first century.The book follows the course of key concepts that have shaped sociological discourse from the founding period in the nineteenth century to the present, and examines four key ideas that have played a central role-industrial society, democracy, individualism, and modernity. Author Peter Kivisto brings these concepts alive by connecting them to the legendary figures responsible for developing, revising, and expanding sociological theory.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1 - Key Ideas About the Social World
Conceptualizing Contemporary Society
Careers of Ideas
Key Ideas and the Field of Sociology
Tools for Understanding Social Trends
Chapter 2 - Industrial Society: From the Satanic Mills to the Computer Age
The Industrial Revolution
Karl Marx: The Permanent Exile
Marxism After Marx
Counterimages of Capitalist Industrial Society: Shifts in the Class Structure
Daniel Bell on the Advent of Postindustrial Society
Summary
Chapter 3 - Democracy: From the Fall of the Bastille to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Max Weber: Prophet, Pessimist, and Realist
Talcott Parsons on the Democratic Prospect
Capitalism Versus Democracy? Lipset and Beyond
Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas
Summary
Chapter 4 - Individualism: The Tension Between Me and Us
Alexis de Tocqueville on Individualism
Ferdinand Toennies on Community
Émile Durkheim and the Quest for Community
Durkheim in America
Summary
Chapter 5 - Modernity: From the Promise of Modern Society to Postmodern Suspicions
Modernity and Postmodernity: Provisional Definitions
The Ambiguous Legacy of Georg Simmel
Robert E. Park and the Chicago School
Postmodernism and Sociological Theory
Anthony Giddens and the Late Modern Age
Summary
Chapter 6 - Globalization: Key Ideas in a Global Framework
The Need to Think Globally
The Lasting Impact of the Sociological Tradition
References
Index

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