Contemporary Sociological Theory (eBook)

Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff, Indermohan Virk (Herausgeber)

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2022 | 4. Auflage
576 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-119-52723-7 (ISBN)

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The new edition of the definitive undergraduate guide to contemporary sociological theory, with updated reading selections throughout

The fourth edition of Contemporary Sociological Theory offers a thorough introduction to current perspectives and approaches in sociology and social science. Covering a broad range of essential topics, this comprehensive volume provides students with the foundation necessary for understanding the theoretical underpinnings of present-day debates in the diverse field. In-depth yet accessible readings address micro-sociological analysis, symbolic interactionism, network theory, phenomenology, critical theory, structuralism, feminist theory, and more.

This classic text is fully revised to incorporate the most representative and up-to-date material, including new readings addressing debates on gender, power, and inequality. New editorial introductions clarify and contextualize the selected readings, while up-to-date examples highlight connections to today's theoretical discussions. This authoritative survey of contemporary sociological theory:

• Presents substantial primary source texts with detailed introductions, rather than brief excerpts and basic overviews
• Examines the sociological theories of Foucault, Giddens, Bourdieu, and Habermas
• Discusses debates over modernity and postmodernity, crisis and change, and race and difference
• Provides historical and intellectual perspective to each selected reading in the book
• Includes extensive references to further readings and resources

Contemporary Sociological Theory, Fourth Edition provides the depth of coverage students require for undergraduate courses in social and sociological theory as well as courses in wider social science programs such as human geography, anthropology, criminology, and urban studies. In combination with its complement?Classical Sociological Theory, Fourth Edition, Contemporary Sociological Theory remains the most complete overview of sociological theory available.

Craig Calhoun is University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University, USA and former Director of the London School of Economics and President of the Social Science Research Council.

Joseph Gerteis is Professor of Sociology and co-Director of the American Mosaic Project at the University of Minnesota, USA. His research focuses on race, ethnicity, and political culture.

James Moody is Professor of Sociology at Duke University, USA, and Director of the Duke Network Analysis Center. His work focuses on the network foundations of social cohesion and diffusion.

Steven Pfaff is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, USA. His research focuses on religion, politics and social change.

Indermohan Virk is Executive Director of the Patten Foundation and the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.

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Acknowledgements

The editors and publisher gratefully acknowledge the permission granted to reproduce the copyright material in this book.

PART I

Chapter 1

Erving Goffman, pp. 17–25 from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday, 1959. © 1959 Erving Goffman. Reproduced with permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. and Penguin Books, UK.

Chapter 2

Herbert Blumer, pp. 46–8, 50–2, 78–89 from Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method, 1st edn. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969. Reproduced with permission of Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ.

Chapter 3

Randall Collins, pp. 3–4, 5, 15, 42–5, 47–54, 55–61, 62–3, 81–3, 87 from Interaction Ritual Chains. Princeton University Press, 2004. © 2004 Princeton University Press. Reproduced with permission of Princeton University Press.

PART II

Chapter 4

Michael Hechter, “A Theory of Group Solidarity,” pp. 40–54 from Principles of Group Solidarity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987. Reproduced with permission of University of California Press.

Chapter 5

James S. Coleman, “Metatheory” from Foundations of Social Theory. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1990. © 1990 The President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reproduced with permission of Harvard University Press.

Chapter 6

Harrison White, “Catnets,” from “Notes on the Constituents of Social Structure,” unpublished manuscript, 1966. Reproduced with permission of Prof. Peter S. Bearman.

Chapter 7

Anthony Giddens, “Some New Rules of Sociological Method,” pp. 155–162 from New Rules of Sociological Method: A Positive Critique of Interpretive Sociologies. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993. Reproduced with permission of Polity Press and Stanford University Press.

PART III

Chapter 8

Mark Granovetter, “Economic Embeddedness,” pp. 481–2, 482–8, 488–9, 490–2, 492–3, 508–10 from “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness,” American Journal of Sociology 91: 3 (November 1985). © 1985 American Journal of Sociology. Reproduced with permission of University of Chicago Press.

Chapter 9

Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell, “The Iron Cage Revisited,” pp. 147–60 from “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields,” American Sociological Review 48: 2 (1983). © 1983 American Sociological Review. Reproduced with permission of the author and the American Sociological Association.

PART IV

Chapter 10

C. Wright Mills, pp. 3–4, 6, 7–11, 287–9, 296 from The Power Elite. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956. © 1956 Oxford University Press Inc. Reproduced with permission of Oxford University Press.

Chapter 11

Charles Tilly, pp. 6–10, 81–91, 95–99 from Durable Inequality. University of California Press, 1998. Reproduced with permission of University of California Press.

Chapter 12

Steven Lukes, pp. 16–17, 19–21, 25–30, 34–8, 58–9 from Power: A Radical View, 2nd edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.

Chapter 13

Michael Mann, “Societies as Organized Power Networks,” pp. 1–11, 22–28, 32 from The Sources of Social Power, Vol. I. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press.

PART V

Chapter 14

Michel Foucault, pp. 135–50 from The History of Sexuality, Vol. I, translated from French by Robert Hurley. English translation © 1978 Penguin Random House LLC. Reproduced with permission of Pantheon Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Chapter 15

Michel Foucault, “Panopticism,” pp. 200–2, 215–16, 218–24 from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, translated from French by Alan Sheridan. English translation © 1978 Alan Sheridan. Reproduced with permission of Pantheon Books (an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC) and Penguin Books Ltd.

PART VI

Chapter 16

Pierre Bourdieu, pp. 627–38 from “Social Space and Symbolic Space: Introduction to a Japanese Reading of Distinction,” Poetics Today 12: 4 (1991). © 1991 The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, Tel Aviv University. Reproduced with permission of Duke University Press.

Chapter 17

Pierre Bourdieu, “Structures, Habitus, Practice,” from The Logic of Practice. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990. English translation © 1990 Polity Press. Originally published in French as Le Sens Pratique by Les Éditions des Minuit. Original French text © 1980 Les Éditions des Minuit. Reproduced with permission of Polity Press, Stanford University Press and Les Editions de Minuit S.A.

Chapter 18

Pierre Bourdieu, pp. 312–13, 315–16, 319–26, 341–6, 349–50, 353–6 from “The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed,” Poetics 12: 4–5 (1983). Reproduced with permission of Elsevier.

Chapter 19

Pierre Bourdieu, pp. 1–5, 12–18 from “Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field,” translated by Loïc J. D. Wacquant and Samar Farage. Sociological Theory 12: 1 (March 1994). Reproduced with permission of the author and American Sociological Association.

PART VII

Chapter 20

Michael Omi and Howard Winant, “The Theory of Racial Formation,” pp. 105–112, 124–130 from Racial Formation in the United States, 3rd edition. Routledge, 2015. Reproduced with permission of Taylor & Francis Group.

Chapter 21

Aldon Morris, “Intellectual Schools and the Atlanta School,” pp. 174–189, 192–194 from The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology. University of California Press, 2015. Reproduced with permission of University of California Press.

Chapter 22

Orlando Patterson, “The Paradoxes of Integration,” pp. 15–6, 64–6, 68–74, 76–7 from The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America’s “Racial” Crisis. Reproduced with permission of Civitas Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

Chapter 23

Dorothy E. Smith, pp. 12–19, 21–7 from The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1990. © 1990 Dorothy E. Smith. Reproduced with permission of Dorothy E. Smith.

Chapter 24

Patricia Hill Collins, “Black Feminist Epistemology,” pp. 251–6, 266–71 from Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, 2nd edn. New York: Routledge, 2000. Reproduced with permission of Taylor & Francis Group.

Chapter 25

Kimberlé Crenshaw, pp. 139–140, 150–152, 154–60 from “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics,” University of Chicago Legal Forum 1 (1989), Article 8.

Chapter 26

Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree, “Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research,” pp. 129, 131–6, 146–7 from Sociological Theory 28: 2 (2010). Reproduced with permission of the author and American Sociological Association.

Chapter 27

Rocio R. Garcia, “The Politics of Erased Migrations: Expanding a Relational, Intersectional Sociology of Latinx Gender and Migration,” pp. 4–6, 8, 14–17 from Sociology Compass 12: 4, e12571 (2018). Reproduced with permission of John Wiley & Sons.

PART VIII

Chapter 28

Jürgen Habermas, “Modernity: An Unfinished Project,” pp. 39–40, 42–6, 53–5 from Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity, edited by Maurizio Passerin d’Entrèves and Seyla Benhabib. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996. Reproduced with permission of The Polity Press and Surkamp Verlag.

Chapter 29

Jürgen Habermas, “The Rationalization of the Lifeworld,” pp. 119–26, 136–45, 147–8, 150–2 from The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. 2: Lifeworld and System. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. English translation © 1987 Beacon Press. Originally published as Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, Band 2: Zur Kritikder funktionalistischen Vernunft (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1981)....

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.4.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
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• Schlagworte: Anthropogeographie • Anthropologie • Anthropology • contemporary social theory • Geographie • Geography • Gesellschaftstheorie • Human geography • Social & Cultural Anthropology • Sociology • Soziale u. kulturelle Anthropologie • Soziologie • Zeitgenössische Sozialtheorie
• ISBN-10: 1-119-52723-6 / 1119527236
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-52723-7 / 9781119527237