Sociological Theory
11th Edition
George Ritzer
- University of Maryland, USA
Jeffrey N. Stepnisky
- MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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The authors are proud sponsors of the SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.
Sociological Theory gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought, from sociology's 19th century origins through the early 21st century. Written by an author team that includes one of the leading contemporary thinkers, the text integrates key theories with biographical sketches of theorists, placing them in historical and intellectual context. The Eleventh Edition includes examples of premodern sociological theory from Islamic scholar Ibn Khaldun, Harriet Martineau’s feminist writings contextualized within the history of sociological thought, discussions of actor-network theory through Donna Haraway’s work on cyborgs and companion species, illustrations of historical comparative sociology with Saskia Sassen’s concepts of the global city and expulsions, and more ways to help students to understand sociology’s major theories.
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Sociological Theory gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought, from sociology's 19th century origins through the early 21st century. Written by an author team that includes one of the leading contemporary thinkers, the text integrates key theories with biographical sketches of theorists, placing them in historical and intellectual context. The Eleventh Edition includes examples of premodern sociological theory from Islamic scholar Ibn Khaldun, Harriet Martineau’s feminist writings contextualized within the history of sociological thought, discussions of actor-network theory through Donna Haraway’s work on cyborgs and companion species, illustrations of historical comparative sociology with Saskia Sassen’s concepts of the global city and expulsions, and more ways to help students to understand sociology’s major theories.
Included with this title:
The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides. Learn more.
Contents
Biographical and Autobiographical Sketches
Biographical and Autobiographical Sketches
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
PART I. CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
- Chapter 1. A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early Years
- Introduction
- Premodern Sociological Theory
- Social Forces in the Development of Sociological Theory
- Intellectual Forces and the Rise of Sociological Theory
- The Development of French Sociology
- The Development of German Sociology
- The Origins of British Sociology
- The Key Figure in Early Italian Sociology
- Non-European Classical Theory
- Chapter 2. Karl Marx
- Introduction
- The Dialectic
- Dialectical Method
- Human Potential
- Alienation
- The Structures of Capitalist Society
- Materialist Conception of History
- Cultural Aspects of Capitalist Society
- Marx’s Economics: A Case Study
- Communism
- Criticisms
- Contemporary Applications
- Chapter 3. Emile Durkheim
- Introduction
- Social Facts
- The Division of Labor in Society
- Suicide
- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
- Moral Education and Social Reform
- Criticisms
- Contemporary Applications
- Chapter 4. Max Weber
- Methodology
- Substantive Sociology
- Criticisms
- Contemporary Applications
- Chapter 5. Georg Simmel
- Primary Concerns
- Individual Consciousness and Individuality
- Social Interaction (“Association”)
- Social Structures and Worlds
- Objective Culture
- The Philosophy of Money
- Secrecy: A Case Study in Simmel’s Sociology
- Criticisms
- Contemporary Applications
PART II. MODERN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: THE MAJOR SCHOOLS
- Chapter 6. A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years
- Early American Sociological Theory
- Sociological Theory to Midcentury
- Sociological Theory From Midcentury
- Late-Twentieth-Century Integrative Theory
- Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity
- Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century
- Chapter 7. Structural Functionalism, Systems Theory, and Conflict Theory
- Structural Functionalism
- Systems Theory
- Conflict Theory
- Chapter 8. Varieties of Neo-Marxian Theory
- Economic Determinism
- Hegelian Marxism
- Critical Theory
- Neo-Marxian Economic Sociology
- Historically Oriented Marxism
- Neo-Marxian Spatial Analysis
- Post-Marxist Theory
- Chapter 9. Symbolic Interactionism
- The Major Historical Roots
- The Ideas of George Herbert Mead
- Symbolic Interactionism: The Basic Principles
- The Self and the Work of Erving Goffman
- The Sociology of Emotions
- Criticisms
- The Future of Symbolic Interactionism
- Chapter 10. Ethnomethodology
- Defining Ethnomethodology
- The Diversification of Ethnomethodology
- Some Early Examples
- Conversation Analysis
- Studies of Institutions
- Criticisms of Traditional Sociology
- Stresses and Strains in Ethnomethodology
- Synthesis and Integration
- Chapter 11. Exchange, Network, and Rational Choice Theories
- Exchange Theory
- Network Theory
- Network Exchange Theory
- Rational Choice Theory
- Chapter 12. Contemporary Feminist Theory (by Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge)
- Feminism’s Basic Questions
- Historical Framing—The Second Wave: Feminism, Sociology, and Gender
- Varieties of Contemporary Feminist Theory
- Challenges to Feminism
- Feminist Sociological Theorizing
- Chapter 13. Micro-Macro and Agency-Structure Integration
- Micro-Macro Integration
- Agency-Structure Integration
- Agency-Structure and Micro-Macro Linkages: Fundamental Differences
PART III. FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN SOCIAL THEORY (AND BEYOND)
- Chapter 14. Contemporary Theories of Modernity
- Classical Theorists on Modernity
- The Juggernaut of Modernity
- The Risk Society
- The Holocaust and Liquid Modernity
- Modernity’s Unfinished Project
- Self, Society, and Religion
- Informationalism and the Network Society
- Chapter 15. Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodern Social Theory
- Structuralism
- Poststructuralism
- Postmodern Social Theory
- Criticisms
- Chapter 16. Theories of Race and Colonialism
- Fanon and the Colonial Subject
- Postcolonial Theory
- Critical Theories of Race and Racism
- Racial Formation
- A Systematic Theory of Race
- Southern Theory and Indigenous Resurgence
- Chapter 17. Globalization Theory
- Major Contemporary Theorists on Globalization
- Cultural Theory
- Economic Theory
- Political Theory
- Neoliberalism
- Chapter 18. Science, Technology, and Nature
- Affect Theory
- Science Studies and Actor-Network Theory
- Theories of the Anthropocene
- Consumption and Prosumption Theory
References
References
Name Index
Name Index
Subject Index
Subject Index
Additional materials
Description
The authors are proud sponsors of the SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.
Sociological Theory gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought, from sociology's 19th century origins through the early 21st century. Written by an author team that includes one of the leading contemporary thinkers, the text integrates key theories with biographical sketches of theorists, placing them in historical and intellectual context. The Eleventh Edition includes examples of premodern sociological theory from Islamic scholar Ibn Khaldun, Harriet Martineau’s feminist writings contextualized within the history of sociological thought, discussions of actor-network theory through Donna Haraway’s work on cyborgs and companion species, illustrations of historical comparative sociology with Saskia Sassen’s concepts of the global city and expulsions, and more ways to help students to understand sociology’s major theories.
Included with this title:
The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides. Learn more.
Sociological Theory gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought, from sociology's 19th century origins through the early 21st century. Written by an author team that includes one of the leading contemporary thinkers, the text integrates key theories with biographical sketches of theorists, placing them in historical and intellectual context. The Eleventh Edition includes examples of premodern sociological theory from Islamic scholar Ibn Khaldun, Harriet Martineau’s feminist writings contextualized within the history of sociological thought, discussions of actor-network theory through Donna Haraway’s work on cyborgs and companion species, illustrations of historical comparative sociology with Saskia Sassen’s concepts of the global city and expulsions, and more ways to help students to understand sociology’s major theories.
Included with this title:
The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides. Learn more.
Contents
Biographical and Autobiographical Sketches
Biographical and Autobiographical Sketches
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
PART I. CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
- Chapter 1. A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early Years
- Introduction
- Premodern Sociological Theory
- Social Forces in the Development of Sociological Theory
- Intellectual Forces and the Rise of Sociological Theory
- The Development of French Sociology
- The Development of German Sociology
- The Origins of British Sociology
- The Key Figure in Early Italian Sociology
- Non-European Classical Theory
- Chapter 2. Karl Marx
- Introduction
- The Dialectic
- Dialectical Method
- Human Potential
- Alienation
- The Structures of Capitalist Society
- Materialist Conception of History
- Cultural Aspects of Capitalist Society
- Marx’s Economics: A Case Study
- Communism
- Criticisms
- Contemporary Applications
- Chapter 3. Emile Durkheim
- Introduction
- Social Facts
- The Division of Labor in Society
- Suicide
- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
- Moral Education and Social Reform
- Criticisms
- Contemporary Applications
- Chapter 4. Max Weber
- Methodology
- Substantive Sociology
- Criticisms
- Contemporary Applications
- Chapter 5. Georg Simmel
- Primary Concerns
- Individual Consciousness and Individuality
- Social Interaction (“Association”)
- Social Structures and Worlds
- Objective Culture
- The Philosophy of Money
- Secrecy: A Case Study in Simmel’s Sociology
- Criticisms
- Contemporary Applications
PART II. MODERN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: THE MAJOR SCHOOLS
- Chapter 6. A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years
- Early American Sociological Theory
- Sociological Theory to Midcentury
- Sociological Theory From Midcentury
- Late-Twentieth-Century Integrative Theory
- Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity
- Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century
- Chapter 7. Structural Functionalism, Systems Theory, and Conflict Theory
- Structural Functionalism
- Systems Theory
- Conflict Theory
- Chapter 8. Varieties of Neo-Marxian Theory
- Economic Determinism
- Hegelian Marxism
- Critical Theory
- Neo-Marxian Economic Sociology
- Historically Oriented Marxism
- Neo-Marxian Spatial Analysis
- Post-Marxist Theory
- Chapter 9. Symbolic Interactionism
- The Major Historical Roots
- The Ideas of George Herbert Mead
- Symbolic Interactionism: The Basic Principles
- The Self and the Work of Erving Goffman
- The Sociology of Emotions
- Criticisms
- The Future of Symbolic Interactionism
- Chapter 10. Ethnomethodology
- Defining Ethnomethodology
- The Diversification of Ethnomethodology
- Some Early Examples
- Conversation Analysis
- Studies of Institutions
- Criticisms of Traditional Sociology
- Stresses and Strains in Ethnomethodology
- Synthesis and Integration
- Chapter 11. Exchange, Network, and Rational Choice Theories
- Exchange Theory
- Network Theory
- Network Exchange Theory
- Rational Choice Theory
- Chapter 12. Contemporary Feminist Theory (by Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge)
- Feminism’s Basic Questions
- Historical Framing—The Second Wave: Feminism, Sociology, and Gender
- Varieties of Contemporary Feminist Theory
- Challenges to Feminism
- Feminist Sociological Theorizing
- Chapter 13. Micro-Macro and Agency-Structure Integration
- Micro-Macro Integration
- Agency-Structure Integration
- Agency-Structure and Micro-Macro Linkages: Fundamental Differences
PART III. FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN SOCIAL THEORY (AND BEYOND)
- Chapter 14. Contemporary Theories of Modernity
- Classical Theorists on Modernity
- The Juggernaut of Modernity
- The Risk Society
- The Holocaust and Liquid Modernity
- Modernity’s Unfinished Project
- Self, Society, and Religion
- Informationalism and the Network Society
- Chapter 15. Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodern Social Theory
- Structuralism
- Poststructuralism
- Postmodern Social Theory
- Criticisms
- Chapter 16. Theories of Race and Colonialism
- Fanon and the Colonial Subject
- Postcolonial Theory
- Critical Theories of Race and Racism
- Racial Formation
- A Systematic Theory of Race
- Southern Theory and Indigenous Resurgence
- Chapter 17. Globalization Theory
- Major Contemporary Theorists on Globalization
- Cultural Theory
- Economic Theory
- Political Theory
- Neoliberalism
- Chapter 18. Science, Technology, and Nature
- Affect Theory
- Science Studies and Actor-Network Theory
- Theories of the Anthropocene
- Consumption and Prosumption Theory
References
References
Name Index
Name Index
Subject Index
Subject Index
Additional materials
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The authors are proud sponsors of the SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.
Sociological Theory gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought, from sociology's 19th century origins through the early 21st century. Written by an author team that includes one of the leading contemporary thinkers, the text integrates key theories with biographical sketches of theorists, placing them in historical and intellectual context. The Eleventh Edition includes examples of premodern sociological theory from Islamic scholar Ibn Khaldun, Harriet Martineau’s feminist writings contextualized within the history of sociological thought, discussions of actor-network theory through Donna Haraway’s work on cyborgs and companion species, illustrations of historical comparative sociology with Saskia Sassen’s concepts of the global city and expulsions, and more ways to help students to understand sociology’s major theories.
Included with this title:
The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides. Learn more.
Sociological Theory gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought, from sociology's 19th century origins through the early 21st century. Written by an author team that includes one of the leading contemporary thinkers, the text integrates key theories with biographical sketches of theorists, placing them in historical and intellectual context. The Eleventh Edition includes examples of premodern sociological theory from Islamic scholar Ibn Khaldun, Harriet Martineau’s feminist writings contextualized within the history of sociological thought, discussions of actor-network theory through Donna Haraway’s work on cyborgs and companion species, illustrations of historical comparative sociology with Saskia Sassen’s concepts of the global city and expulsions, and more ways to help students to understand sociology’s major theories.
Included with this title:
The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides. Learn more.
Table Of Contents:
- Biographical and Autobiographical Sketches
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- PART I. CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
- Chapter 1. A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early Years
- Introduction
- Premodern Sociological Theory
- Social Forces in the Development of Sociological Theory
- Intellectual Forces and the Rise of Sociological Theory
- The Development of French Sociology
- The Development of German Sociology
- The Origins of British Sociology
- The Key Figure in Early Italian Sociology
- Non-European Classical Theory
- Chapter 2. Karl Marx
- Introduction
- The Dialectic
- Dialectical Method
- Human Potential
- Alienation
- The Structures of Capitalist Society
- Materialist Conception of History
- Cultural Aspects of Capitalist Society
- Marx’s Economics: A Case Study
- Communism
- Criticisms
- Contemporary Applications
- Chapter 3. Emile Durkheim
- Introduction
- Social Facts
- The Division of Labor in Society
- Suicide
- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
- Moral Education and Social Reform
- Criticisms
- Contemporary Applications
- Chapter 4. Max Weber
- Methodology
- Substantive Sociology
- Criticisms
- Contemporary Applications
- Chapter 5. Georg Simmel
- Primary Concerns
- Individual Consciousness and Individuality
- Social Interaction (“Association”)
- Social Structures and Worlds
- Objective Culture
- The Philosophy of Money
- Secrecy: A Case Study in Simmel’s Sociology
- Criticisms
- Contemporary Applications
- PART II. MODERN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: THE MAJOR SCHOOLS
- Chapter 6. A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years
- Early American Sociological Theory
- Sociological Theory to Midcentury
- Sociological Theory From Midcentury
- Late-Twentieth-Century Integrative Theory
- Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity
- Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century
- Chapter 7. Structural Functionalism, Systems Theory, and Conflict Theory
- Structural Functionalism
- Systems Theory
- Conflict Theory
- Chapter 8. Varieties of Neo-Marxian Theory
- Economic Determinism
- Hegelian Marxism
- Critical Theory
- Neo-Marxian Economic Sociology
- Historically Oriented Marxism
- Neo-Marxian Spatial Analysis
- Post-Marxist Theory
- Chapter 9. Symbolic Interactionism
- The Major Historical Roots
- The Ideas of George Herbert Mead
- Symbolic Interactionism: The Basic Principles
- The Self and the Work of Erving Goffman
- The Sociology of Emotions
- Criticisms
- The Future of Symbolic Interactionism
- Chapter 10. Ethnomethodology
- Defining Ethnomethodology
- The Diversification of Ethnomethodology
- Some Early Examples
- Conversation Analysis
- Studies of Institutions
- Criticisms of Traditional Sociology
- Stresses and Strains in Ethnomethodology
- Synthesis and Integration
- Chapter 11. Exchange, Network, and Rational Choice Theories
- Exchange Theory
- Network Theory
- Network Exchange Theory
- Rational Choice Theory
- Chapter 12. Contemporary Feminist Theory (by Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge)
- Feminism’s Basic Questions
- Historical Framing—The Second Wave: Feminism, Sociology, and Gender
- Varieties of Contemporary Feminist Theory
- Challenges to Feminism
- Feminist Sociological Theorizing
- Chapter 13. Micro-Macro and Agency-Structure Integration
- Micro-Macro Integration
- Agency-Structure Integration
- Agency-Structure and Micro-Macro Linkages: Fundamental Differences
- PART III. FROM MODERN TO POSTMODERN SOCIAL THEORY (AND BEYOND)
- Chapter 14. Contemporary Theories of Modernity
- Classical Theorists on Modernity
- The Juggernaut of Modernity
- The Risk Society
- The Holocaust and Liquid Modernity
- Modernity’s Unfinished Project
- Self, Society, and Religion
- Informationalism and the Network Society
- Chapter 15. Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodern Social Theory
- Structuralism
- Poststructuralism
- Postmodern Social Theory
- Criticisms
- Chapter 16. Theories of Race and Colonialism
- Fanon and the Colonial Subject
- Postcolonial Theory
- Critical Theories of Race and Racism
- Racial Formation
- A Systematic Theory of Race
- Southern Theory and Indigenous Resurgence
- Chapter 17. Globalization Theory
- Major Contemporary Theorists on Globalization
- Cultural Theory
- Economic Theory
- Political Theory
- Neoliberalism
- Chapter 18. Science, Technology, and Nature
- Affect Theory
- Science Studies and Actor-Network Theory
- Theories of the Anthropocene
- Consumption and Prosumption Theory
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index