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| George Ritzer | University of Maryland |
| Barry Smart | University of Portsmouth |
| © 2001 | 552 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd |
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| Sixty Day Exam Copy | ||||
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| Paperback | ISBN: | 9780761941873 | $79.00 | |
| Hardcover | ISBN: | 9780761958406 | $150.00 | |
| Ebook | ISBN: | 9781847876737 |
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| Introduction | George Ritzer and Barry Smart |
| Theorists, Theories and Theorizing | |
| PART ONE: CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY | |
| Modernity, Enlightenment, Revolution and Romanticism | John Rundell |
| Creating Social Theory | |
| The Origins of Positivism | Jonathan H Turner |
| The Contributions of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer | |
| Maintaining Marx | Gregor McLennan |
| Max Weber | Sam Whimster |
| Work and Interpretation | |
| The Continuing Relevance of Georg Simmel | Birgitta Nedelmann |
| Staking Out Anew the Field of Sociology | |
| Durkheim's Project for a Sociological Science | Mike Gane |
| The Emergence of the New | Hans Joas |
| Mead's Theory and Its Contemporary Potential | |
| Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge | David Kettler and Volker Meja |
| Psychoanalysis and Sociology | John O'Neill |
| From Freudo-Marxism to Freudo-Feminism | |
| Classical Feminist Social Theory | Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley |
| PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY | |
| Functional, Conflict and Neofunctional Theories | Mark Abrahamson |
| Talcott Parsons | Robert J Holton |
| Conservative Apologist or Irreplaceable Icon? | |
| Nietzsche | Robert J Antonio |
| Social Theory in the Twilight of the Millennium | |
| Critical Theory | Craig Calhoun and Joseph Karaganis |
| J[um]urgen Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action | Richard Harvey Brown and Douglas Goodman |
| An Incomplete Project | |
| Symbolic Interactionism at the End of the Century | Kent L Sandstrom, Daniel D Martin and Gary Alan Fine |
| Phenomenology and Social Theory | Harvie Ferguson |
| Fundamentals of Ethnomethodology | Wes Sharrock |
| Theories of Social Exchange and Exchange Networks | Linda D Molm |
| Sociological Rational Choice | Douglas D Heckathorn |
| Contemporary Feminist Theory | Mary F Rogers |
| Multiculturalism | Charles Lemert |
| Social Theory and the Postmodern | Stephen Crook |
| Michel Foucault | Mitchell Dean |
| `A Man in Danger' | |
| The Macro/Micro Problem and the Problem of Structure and Agency | Barry Barnes |
| Norbert Elias and Process Sociology | Robert van Krieken |
| PART THREE: ISSUES IN SOCIAL THEORY | |
| Positivism in the Twentieth Century | Peter Halfpenny |
| Metatheorizing in Sociology | Shanyang Zhao |
| Cultural Studies and Social Theory | Douglas Kellner |
| A Critical Intervention | |
| Theories of Consumption | George Ritzer, Douglas Goodman and Wendy Wiedenhoft |
| Sexualities | Anthony Elliott |
| Social Theory and the Crisis of Identity | |
| The Embodied Foundations of Social Theory | Chris Shilling |
| Globalization Theory 2000+ | Roland Robertson |
| Major Problematics | |
| Nationalism | Gerard Delanty |
| Between Nation and State | |
| Socialism | Peter Beilharz |
| Modern Hopes, Postmodern Shadows | |
| Modern Societies as Knowledge Societies | Nico Stehr |
| Sociology, Morality and Ethics | Barry Smart |
| On Being with Others | |
| Postsocial Relations | Karin Knorr Cetina |
| Theorizing Sociality in a Post-social Environment |
