Modern Sociological Theory, Volume 1SAGE, 21 jan 1994 - 368 pagina's This innovative textbook presents an up-to-date synthesis of the central debates in contemporary social thought. It offers a different framework for the study of social theory. By focusing on the core concepts and issues - rather than on schools of thought or individual theorists - Malcolm Waters relates past and present theory to the key concerns of sociology today. Modern Sociological Theory gives a lucid overview of: the core concepts that sociological theory must address and attempt to reconcile - agency, rationality, structure and system; and the main phenomena that sociological theory sets to explain - culture, power, gender, differentiation and stratification. It explains the major contributio |
Inhoudsopgave
The main concepts | 11 |
the selfmade society | 22 |
seeing things | 31 |
the maximization of individual interest | 56 |
trading associations | 66 |
power to the people who have power | 72 |
games Marxists play | 78 |
17 | 104 |
20 | 221 |
power from the possession of property | 226 |
power as politics | 235 |
Polymorphic power | 244 |
Gender and feminism | 250 |
Contemporary developments | 256 |
23 | 257 |
25 | 264 |
Recent French structuralism and poststructuralism | 122 |
an overarching order | 130 |
systems within systems | 142 |
paradise regained | 152 |
steering theory straight | 161 |
Conclusion | 167 |
Culture and ideology | 173 |
NeoMarxian critical theory | 182 |
Contemporary constructionist theories of culture | 192 |
The neoWeberian critique of ideology theory | 202 |
Power and the state | 217 |
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action actors agency Althusser analysis argues argument become behaviour biological biological reproduction bourgeoisie capitalism capitalist chapter collective concept conscience collective consciousness consequence constraints constructionist contemporary critical critique culture differentiation division of labour domestic domination Durkheim economic elite emergence Émile Durkheim Engels established example exchange exploitation feminist Frankfurt School functionalist functions fundamental gender Giddens Gramsci groups Habermas human identifies ideology individual inequality integration interaction interests labour power lifeworld London Lukács Marx Marx's Marxist masculine material mode of production modern norms occupational organizations orientation Parsons particular patriarchy pattern variables petty bourgeoisie political position possible postmodern Poulantzas problem public choice theory rationality reality relations relations of production relationship reproduction roles seek sexual social structure social system social world society sociological theory sociologists specified status stratification structuralist subordination symbolic symbolic interactionism theoretical theorists tion tradition transformation University Weber women workers