Doyle Paul Johnson

Contemporary Sociological Theory

An Integrated Multi-Level Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

The overall organizing framework employed in this textbook is based primarily on the distinctions among different levels of social reality. Theorists routinely distinguish between micro and macro levels of analysis. The micro level involves a focus on human agency and choice and the dynamics of personal relationships and small-scale social systems of various types, particularly those involving face-to-face encounters. The macro level, in contrast, is concerned with larger-scale social systems, typically at the level of total societies.
In addition to micro and macro levels, various intermediate (or meso ) levels of analysis may also be identified. This book is distinctive as a theory text in giving explicit attention to organizations, communities, markets, and socioeconomic classes as meso-level social formations that can be identified between the micro level of face-to-face relations and the macro-level institutional structures of the overall society.
Contemporary Sociological Theory is divided into three sections: the first section introduces contemporary sociological theory and includes the historical development, the early European sources, and the development of American sociology. Section two presents the various major theoretical perspectives that have long been considered the core of contemporary sociological theory and includes the three levels of social interaction - macro, micro and meso. The last section covers contemporary perspectives that reflect multiple levels of analysis such as feminist theory, structuration theory and systems theory, the sociobiological perspective and cultural systems.
With its unique focus on multiple levels of analysis, this graduate-level text will be of interest to sociologists and those they teach.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer New York / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4419-2625-8
• Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008
• Seitenzahl: 652
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 985g
• ISBN-13: 9781441926258
• ISBN-10: 1441926259
• Artikelnr.: 32475186

Autorenporträt

D. Paul Johnson is a Professor and the former Chair of the Department of Sociology at Texas Tech University. 

Inhaltsangabe

PART I SETTING THE STAGE FOR CONTEMPORARY THEORY Chapter 1
Introduction: From Implicit to Explicit Theories Chapter 2 Classical Stage
European Sources of Sociological Theory Chapter 3 The Development of
American Sociology: A Brief Historical Overview Chapter 4 Formal Theory
Construction: Developing Sociological Theory as Part of a Scientific
Enterprise PART II MOVING FROM MICRO TO MESO TO MACRO LEVELS Chapter 5
Symbolic Interaction: Constructing the Social World ¿ Plus the Identities
of Its Participants Chapter 6 Phenomenological Sociology and
Ethnomethodology: The Everyday Life World of Common Sense Chapter 7 Social
Exchange and Rational Choice at the Micro Level: Looking out for #1 Chapter
8 Networking and Belonging: Opportunity Structures, Rational Choice
Transactions, and the Sociology of Emotions Chapter 9 From Micro Level
Exchanges to Meso and Macro Level Organizations and Institutions Chapter 10
Meso-level Structures: Communities and Organizations Chapter 11 Meso Level
Structures: Markets and Socioeconomic Classes Chapter 12 Integration and
Social Order at the Macro Level: The Functional Approach Chapter 13
Functional Analysis Continued: Middle-range Functional Analysis and
Neofunctionalism Chapter 14 Conflict and Competition: Analytical Macro
Level Theories of Conflict in Social Life Chapter 15 Critical Theory:
Changing Priorities From Macro Level Functional Requirements to Fulfillment
of Basic Human Needs PART III EXPLORING MULTI-LEVEL THEORETICAL
PERSPECTIVES Chapter 16 Feminist Theory at Multiple Levels: Analytical and
Critical Chapter 17 Human Agency, the Structuration Process, and the
Dynamics of Social Systems Chapter 18 Biological Versus Cultural Influences
on Human Behavior Chapter 19 The Dynamics of Cultural Systems and Their
Fragmentation in the PostmodernWorld Chapter 20 Summary

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From the contents
Part I Setting The Stage For Contemporary Theory.- Part II Moving From Micro To Meso To Macro Levels.- Part III Exploring Multi-Level Theoretical Perspectives.