Illuminating social life
Subtitle: classical and contemporary theory revisited
By: edited by Peter Kivisto.
Contributors: Kivisto, Peter, 1948-
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Pine Forge Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Sociology -- Philosophy.; Sociology -- History.; Social history -- 1970-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Working longer, living less : understanding Marx through the workplace today / John P. Walsh and Anne Zacharias-Walsh; title: The Weberian theory of rationalization and the mcdonaldization of contemporary society / George Ritzer; title: Surfing the net for community : a Durkheimian analysis of electronic gatherings / Peter Kivisto and Anne M. Hornsby; title: Alcohol-related windows on Simmel's social world / William J. Staudenmeier; title: Criminalizing transgressing youth : a neofunctionalist analysis of institution building / Paul Colomy and Laura Ross Greiner; title: Why do African Americans pay more for new cars? : a structural explanation / Christopher Prendergast; title: Critical theory, legitimation crisis, and the deindustrialization of Flint, Michigan / Steven P. Dandaneau; title: The socially constructed body : insights from feminist theory / Judith Lorber and Patricia Yancey Martin; title: Wild thoughts : an interactionist analysis of ideology, emotion, and nature / Gary Alan Fine and Kent L. Sandstrom; title: Goffman's dramaturgical sociology : personal sales and service in a commodified world / Peter Kivisto and Dan Pittman; title: The 'new' means of consumption : a postmodern analysis / George Ritzer; title: The cinematic society, the interview, and the postmodern self / Norman K. Denzin; title: Globalization theory and religious fundamentalism / William H. Swatos.