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SOCY 201 P1 Classical Sociology Theory - Course Reserves
Introduction to sociological theory : theorists, concepts, and their applicability to the twenty-first century (print book) by Michele Dillon
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Analyzing Social Life -- Societal Transformation and the Origins of Sociology -- The Establishment of Sociology -- The Sociological Craft in the Nineteenth Century -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Glossary -- Questions for Review -- 1. Karl Marx -- Expansion of Capitalism -- Marx's Theory of History -- Human Nature -- Capitalism as a Distinctive Social Form -- Wage-Labor -- The Division of Labor and Alienation -- Economic Inequality -- Ideology and Power -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Glossary -- Questions for Review -- 2. Emile Durkheim -- Durkheim's Methodological Rules -- The Nature of Society -- Societal Transformation and Social Cohesion -- Traditional Society -- Modern Society -- Social Conditions of Suicide -- Religion and the Sacred -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Glossary -- Questions for Review -- 3. Max Weber -- Sociology: Understanding Social Action -- Culture and Economic Activity -- Ideal Types -- Social Action.
Contents note continued: Power, Authority, and Domination -- Social Stratification -- Modernity and Competing Values -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Glossary -- Questions for Review -- 4. Talcott Parsons and Robert Merton: Functionalism and Modernization -- Talcott Parsons -- The Social System -- Socialization and Societal Integration -- Social Differentiation, Culture, and the Secularization of Protestantism -- Pattern Variables -- Modernization Theory -- Stratification and Inequality -- Robert Merton's Middle-Range Theory -- Parsons's Legacy: Varied Directions -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Glossary -- Questions for Review -- 5. Critical Theory: Technology, Culture, and Politics -- Critical Theory -- Dialectic of Enlightenment -- Mass Culture and Consumption -- Politics: Uniformity and Control -- Jurgen Habermas: The State and Society -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Glossary -- Questions for Review -- 6. Conflict, Power, and Dependency in Macro-Societal Processes.
Contents note continued: Ralf Dahrendorf's Theory of Group Conflict -- C. Wright Mills -- Dependency Theory: Neo-Marxist Critiques of Economic Development -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Glossary -- Questions for Review -- 7. Exchange, Exchange Network, and Rational Choice Theories -- Exchange Theory -- Exchange Network Theory -- Actor-Network Theory (ANT) -- Rational Choice Theory -- Analytical Marxism -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Glossary -- Questions for Review -- 8. Symbolic Interactionism -- Development of the Self through Social Interaction -- The Premises of Symbolic Interactionism -- Erving Goffman: Society as Ritualized Social Interaction -- Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnographic Research -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Glossary -- Questions for Review -- 9. Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology -- Phenomenology -- Ethnomethodology -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Glossary -- Questions for Review -- 10. Feminist Theories.
Contents note continued: Consciousness of Women's Inequality -- Standpoint Theory: Dorothy Smith and the Relations of Ruling -- Masculinity -- Patricia Hill Collins: Black Women's Standpoint -- Sociology of Emotion -- Arlie Hochschild: Emotional Labor -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Glossary -- Questions for Review -- 11. Michel Foucault: Theorizing Sexuality, the Body, and Power -- Disciplining the Body -- Sexuality and Queer Theory -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Glossary -- Questions for Review -- 12. Race, Racism, and the Construction of Racial Otherness -- Racial Otherness -- Social Change, Race, and Racism -- Slavery, Colonialism, and Racial Formation -- William Du Bois: Slavery and Racial Inequality -- Race and Class -- Race, Community, and Democracy -- Culture and the New Racism -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Glossary -- Questions for Review -- 13. The Social Reproduction of Inequality: Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Class and Culture -- Social Stratification.
Contents note continued: Family and School in the Production of Cultural Capital -- Taste and Everyday Practices -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Glossary -- Questions for Review -- 14. Economic and Political Globalization -- What is Globalization? -- Economic Globalization -- Immanuel Wallerstein: The Modern World-System -- Contemporary Globalizing Economic Processes -- Globalizing Political Processes: The Changing Authority of the Nation-State -- Migration and Political Mobilization in a Transnational World -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Glossary -- Questions for Review -- 15. Modernities, Cosmopolitanism, and Global Consumer Culture -- Contrite Modernity -- Multiple Modernities -- Global Risk Society -- Cosmopolitan Modernity -- The Global Expansion of Human Rights -- Global Consumer Culture -- Disembeddedness and Dilemmas of the Self -- Summary -- Points to Remember -- Glossary -- Questions for Review.
Call Number: Academic Reserves - Shortloan collection 301 DIL
ISBN: 9781118471920
Publication Date: 2014
Introduction to sociological theory : theorists, concepts, and their applicability to the twenty-first century (eBook) by Michele Dillon
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 text. Short biographies and historical timelines of significant events provide context to theorists' ideas. Innovatively builds on excerpts from original theoretical writings with detailed discussion of the concepts and ideas under review.
Call Number: online / ebook
ISBN: 9781118471906
Publication Date: 2014
Sociological theory by George Ritzer and Jeffrey Stepnisky
Contents: Classical sociological theory. A historical sketch of sociological theory: the early years -- Karl Marx -- Emile Durkheim -- Max Weber -- Georg Simmel -- Modern sociological theory: the major schools. A historical sketch of socioilogical theory: the later years -- Structural functionalism, systems theory, and conflict theory -- Varieties of neo-Marxian theory -- Symbolic interactionism -- Etnomethodology -- Exchange, network, and rational choice theories -- Contemporary feminist theory -- Micro-macro and agency-structure integration -- From modern to pstmodern social theory (and beyond). Contemporary theories of modernity -- Theories of race and colonialism -- Globalization theory -- Structuralism, poststructuralism, and postmodern social theory -- Social theory in the 21st century.
Call Number: Academic Reserves - Shortloan collection 301 RIT
ISBN: 9781506337715
Publication Date: 2018
The emergence of sociological theory by Jonathan H Turner, Leonard Beeghley, Charles H Powers
Contents: The Rise of Theoretical Sociology -- The Origin and Context of Auguste Comte's Thought -- The Sociology of Aguste Comte -- The Origin and Context of Herbert Spencer's Thought -- The Sociology of Herbert Spencer -- The Origin and Context of Karl Marx's Thought -- The Sociology of Karl Marx -- The Origin and Context of Max Weber's Thought -- The Sociology of Max Weber The Origin and Context of Georg Simmel's Thought -- The Sociology of Georg Simmel -- The Origin and Context of?mile Durkheim's Thought -- The Sociology of Emile Durkheim -- The Origin and Context of George Herbert Mead's Thought -- The Sociology of George Herbert Mead -- The Emergence of Contemporary Perspectives.
Call Number: Academic Reserves - Shortloan collection 301.09 TUR
ISBN: 9781452206233
Publication Date: 2012
