Contemporary social and sociological theory
Subtitle: visualizing social worlds
By: Kenneth Allan.
Publisher: Pine Forge Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
Subjects: Sociology; Sociology -- Philosophy; Sociologists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Having a thought; title: Symbols, meaning & the social self : George Herbert Mead & Herbert Blumer; title: Constructing social reality : Peter Berger & Thomas Luckmann; title: Organizing ordinary life : Harold Garfinkel; title: Performing the self : Erving Goffman; title: Emotion and interaction ritual chains : Randall Collins; title: Social & population structures : Peter M. Blau; title: Gender inequality : Janet Saltzman Chafetz; title: The replication of class : Pierre Bourdieu; title: Global capitalism & the decline of American hegemony : Immanuel Wallerstein; title: Social systems and their environments : Niklas Luhmann; title: Modernity & reason : Jurgen Habermas; title: The juggernaut of modernity : Anthony Giddens; title: Defining the possible and impossible : Michel Foucault; title: Language on the rocks : Jacques Derrida; title: The end of everything : Jean Baudrillard; title: Race matters : Cornel West; title: Gendered consciousness : Dorothy E. Smith; title: Materializing sex & queer theory : Judith Butler; title: Conclusion: On being unsettled.