Sociological theory
Sociological Theory is an attempt to trace the development of sociological theory from the classical to the modern period. A comprehensive and balanced introduction, it studies all the important thinkers chronologically so that the students can locate the continuity as well as the discontinuity of t...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Delhi, India :
Pearson
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Always learning.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628014206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Origins of Sociological Theory
- From Speculative to Definitive
- Age of Enlightenment
- The Revolutions
- Organic Analogy and Evolutionism
- Basic Ideas of Sociological Theory
- Key Words
- Glossary
- Discussion Points
- Chapter 2: Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-83)
- A Biographical Sketch
- Materialist Conception of History
- Against Crude Materialism
- Dialectics
- Laws of Dialectics
- Metaphors of Base and Superstructure
- Stages of History
- A Pre-Class System or A Stage of Primitive Communism
- Asiatic Societies
- Ancient Society
- Feudal Society
- Capitalist Society
- Theory of Capitalism
- Commodity
- Labour Theory of Value
- Commodity Fetishism
- Surplus Value
- Accumulation Process
- Crisis of Capitalism
- Summary
- Key Words
- Glossary
- Discussion Points
- Chapter 3: Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
- A Biographical Sketch
- Social and Intellectual Influences
- Method of Study
- Rules for Sociological Study
- Explanation, Causality and Comparative Method
- Mechanical and Organic Solidarity
- Conscience Collective: Crime and Punishment
- Abnormal Forms of Division of Labour
- Sociology of Suicide
- Typology of Suicide
- Egoistic Suicide
- Altruistic Suicide
- Anomic Suicide
- Summary
- Key Words
- Glossary
- Discussion Points
- Chapter 4: Max Weber (1864-1920)
- A Biographical Sketch
- Intellectual Background
- Method of Sociology
- Verstehen Sociology
- Value-Freedom (Werturteilsfreiheit)
- Understanding Explanation (Vertehendes Erklaren)
- Social Action
- Ideal Types
- Rationality
- Role of Ideas in History
- Spirit of Capitalism
- The Protestant Ethic
- Summary
- Key Words
- Glossary
- Discussion Points
- Chapter 5: Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)
- A Biographical Sketch
- Social and Intellectual Influence.
- Society in Equilibrium
- Non-logical Action
- Elite Theory: Circulation of Elites
- Summary
- Key Words
- Glossary
- Discussion Points
- Chapter 6: Functional School of Thought
- Intellectual Influences on Functionalism
- Herbert Spencer
- Emile Durkheim
- The Anthropological Tradition
- Talcott Parsons
- Social Action Theory
- System Analysis
- Functional Requisites
- Pattern Variables
- Functional Imperatives
- Robert King Merton (1910-2003)
- Critique of Orthodox Functionalism
- Theories of the Middle Range
- An Alternative Paradigm for Functional Analysis
- Summary
- Key Words
- Glossary
- Discussion Points
- Chapter 7: Conflict Theory
- Karl Marx
- Max Weber
- George Simmel
- Lewis Coser (1913-2003)
- Social and Intellectual Influences
- Functional-conflict Theory
- Beyond Organismic Analogy
- C. Wright Mills (1916-62)
- Social and Intellectual Influence
- Power
- Intellectual Craftsmanship
- Ralph Dahrendorf
- Against the Equilibrium Model
- Imperatively Coordinated Associations and Conflict
- Summary
- Key Words
- Glossary
- Discussion Points
- Chapter 8: Symbolic Interactionism
- Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929)
- Looking-glass Self
- George Herbert Mead: A Brief Biography and Influences
- The Social
- The Mind
- The Self
- Development of the Self: 'I' and 'Me'
- Social Experience and the Act
- Herbert Blumer (1900-87)
- Symbolic Interactionism as a Perspective
- Erving Goffman (1922-82)
- A Brief Biographical Sketch
- Stable Self-Image
- Technique of Dramaturgy
- Summary
- Key Words
- Glossary
- Discussion Points
- Chapter 9: Social Exchange Theory
- Intellectual Roots
- George C. Homans (1910-89)
- A Biographical Sketch and Intellectual Influences
- Human Behaviour in Homan's Scheme
- Success Proposition
- Stimulus Proposition
- Peter Blau (1918-2002).
- A Brief Biographical Sketch
- Sociological Theory and Social Exchange
- Group Formation and Cohesion
- Complex Organization and Bureaucracy
- Summary
- Key Words
- Glossary
- Discussion Points
- Chapter 10: Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology
- Edmund Husserl
- A Biographical Sketch and Influences
- Early Phenomenology: Facts and Essences
- Phenomenological Method
- Alfred Schutz (1899-1959)
- Biography and Influences
- Beyond Weber's notion of social action
- Peter Ludwig Berger (1929-)
- A Biographical Sketch and Influences
- Social Reality: A Form of Consciousness
- Harold Garfinkel (1917-2011)
- A Biographical Sketch And Influences
- Problem of Order
- Tools of Ethnomethodology
- Summary
- Key Words
- Glossary
- Discussion Points
- Chapter 11: Critical Theory
- Intellectual and Social Background
- Culture Industry
- Georg Lukacs (1885-1971)
- Max Harkheimer and Theodor Adorno
- Short Biographies
- Critique of Science and Reason
- Adorno on Culture
- Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
- A Biographical Sketch
- Critical Theory
- Alienating Technology
- Jurgen Habermas (1929)
- A Biographical Sketch and Influences
- Critique of Culture and Communicative Action
- On Rationality
- Summary
- Key Words
- Glossary
- Discussion Points
- Chapter 12: Post-modern Theory and Post-structural Sociology
- Daniel Bell's Post-industrial Society
- Post-modern Theory
- Basic Themes in Post-modern Thought
- Michel Foucault (1926-84)
- Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
- Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-98)
- Knowledge and Post-modern Condition
- Zygmunt Bauman (1925- )
- Modernity and Ambivalence
- Jean Baudrillard (1929- 2007)
- Post-modernity and the Age of Simulation
- Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
- Symbolic Capital
- Habitus and Practice
- Summary
- Key Words
- Glossary
- Discussion Points
- Chapter 13: Conclusion.
- Individual and Society
- Summary
- Bibliography
- Index.
