Sociological Theory

Table of Contents Preface I. THE EUROPEAN ROOTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: The Origins of Sociological Theory Theorizing after the Revolution Saint-Simon, Comte, and Martineau II. CONSERVATIVE THEORIES: Evolutionism and Functionalism Spencer and Sumner Society as Sui Generis Durkheim III. RADICAL THEORY: Radical Anticapitalism Marx and Engels Marxism Extended Lenin and Luxemburg IV. SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES OF COMPLEXITY AND FORM: Social Action and Social Complexity Max Weber and Marianne Weber The Sociology of Form and Content Simmel V. SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES OF POLITICS AND ECONOMICS: Political Sociological Theories Pareto and Michels Economic Sociological Theories Veblen and Schumpeter VI. OTHER VOICES IN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIZING: Society and Gender Gilman and Webb Sociological Theory and Race W E B du Bois Society, Self, and Mind Cooley, Mead, and Freud VII. TWENTIETH-CENTURY FUNCTIONALISM AND BEYOND: Twentieth-Century Functionalism Parsons and Merton Systems, Structuration, and Modernity Luhmann and Giddens VIII. CRITICISM, MARXISM, AND CHANGE: Critical Theory The Frankfurt School and Habermas Marxism Since 1930 Poulantzas, Althusser, Dunayevskaya, and Wright Sociocultural Change: Evolution, World System, and Revolution Service, Wallerstein, and Skocpol IX. TRANSITIONS AND CHALLENGES: Mid-Twentieth-Century Sociology Symbolic Interactionism Blumer, Goffman, and Hochschild Rational Choice and Exchange Coleman Feminist Sociological Theory Smith and Collins Knowledge, Truth, and Power Foucault and Feminist Responses