Contemporary Social and Sociological Theory Visualizing Social Worlds

Introduction (to be read): The Real You
Acknowledgments
Part I. Introduction
1. In the Beginning There Was Modernity
2. Defining Moments in 20th-Century Theory: Talcott Parsons and The Frankfurt School
Part II. The Social Situation and Its People
3. Symbolic Interaction: Herbert Blumer (1900-1987)
4. Organizing Ordinary Life: Harold Garfinkel (1917-)
5. Performing the Self: Erving Goffman (1922-1982)
6. Social Exchanges: George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins
Elementary Forms of Social Behavior: George Homans (1910-1989),
Social Exchanges and Power: Peter Blau (1918-2002)
Ritualized Exchanges: Randall Collins (1941-)
Part III. Social Structures and Systems
7. Structures of Racial and Gender Inequality: William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz
The Declining Significance of Race: William Julius Wilson (1935-)
The Structures of Gender Inequality: Janet Saltzman Chafetz (1942-2006)
8. Structuring Class: Pierre Bourdieu (1960-2002)
9. Global Capitalism: Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-)
10. The Network Society: Manuel Castells (1942-)
Part IV: Modernity and Postmodernity
11. Modernity and Reason: Jürgen Habermas (1929-)
12. Runaway Modernity: Anthony Giddens (1938-)
13. Defining the Possible and Impossible: Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
14. The End of Everything: Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
Part V. Identity Politics
15. Racial Wounds and the Niggerization of America: Cornel West (1953-)
16. Text, Power, and Women: Dorothy E. Smith (1926-)
17. Embodying Sex: Judith Butler (1956-)
Glossary
References
Index
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