| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 565 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : welcome to sociological theory -- Karl Marx -- Emile Durkheim -- Max Weber -- Talcott Parsons and Robert Merton : Functionalism and Modernization -- Critical theory : technology, culture, and politics -- Conflict, power, and dependency in macro-societal processes -- Exchange, exchange network, and rational choice theories -- Symbolic interactionism -- Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology -- Feminist theories -- Michel Foucault : theorizing sexuality, the body, and power -- Race, racism, and the construction of racial otherness -- The social reproduction of inequality : Pierre Bourdieu's theory of class and culture -- Economic and political globalization -- Modernities, cosmopolitanism, and global consumer culture |
| Summary |
The extensively revised and updated second edition combines carefully chosen primary quotes with wide-ranging discussion and everyday illustrative examples to provide an in-depth introduction to classical and contemporary sociological theory.Combines classical and contemporary theory in a single, integrated textShort biographies and historical timelines of significant events provide context to theorists' ideasInnovatively builds on excerpts from original theoretical writings with detailed discussion of the concepts and ideas under reviewIncludes n |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Sociology.
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Sociology -- History.
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sociology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Sociology
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013034998 |
| ISBN |
9781118471906 |
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1118471903 |
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9781118471913 |
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1118471911 |
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111847192X |
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9781118471920 |
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