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CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND ITS CLASSICAL ROOTS: THE BASICS / Edition 4 by George Ritzer EBOOK PDF Instant Download
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. IntroductionCreating Sociological Theory
Defining Sociological Theory
Creating Sociological Theory: A More Realistic View
Overview of the Book
Chapter 2. Classical Theories-I
Emile Durkheim
Karl Marx
Max Weber
Chapter 3. Classical Theories-II
Georg Simmel
Thorstein Veblen
George Herbert Mead
Chapter 4. Contemporary Grand Theories-I
Structural Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Systems Theory
Chapter 5. Contemporary Grand Theories-II
Neo-Marxian Theory
The Civilizing Process
Colonizing the Lifeworld
The Juggernaut of Modernity
Chapter 6. Contemporary Theories of Everyday Life
Symbolic Interactionism
Dramaturgy
Ethnomethodology
Exchange Theory
Rational Choice Theory
Chapter 7. Contemporary Integrative Theories
A More Integrated Exchange Theory
Structuration Theory
Culture and Agency
Habitus and Field
Chapter 8. Contemporary Feminist Theories (by Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge)
Gender Difference
Gender Inequality
Gender Oppression
Structural Oppression.
Chapter 9. Postmodern Grand Theories
The Transition from Industrial to Postindustrial Society
Increasing Governmentality (and other Grand Theories)
Postmodernity as Modernity’s Coming of Age
The Rise of Consumer Society, Loss of Symbolic
Exchange, and Increase in Simulations
The Consumer Society and the New Means of Consumption
Dromology
Feminism and Postmodern Social Theory (by Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge)
Chapter 10. Globalization Theory
Major Contemporary Theorists on Globalization
Cultural Theory
Economic Theory
Political Theory
