Handbook of sociological theory / edited by Jonathan H. Turner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Turner, Jonathan H.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Handbooks of sociology and social research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

xi, 745 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2001]

Summary:

This wide-ranging handbook presents in-depth discussions on the array of subspecialties that comprise the field of sociological theory. Prominent theorists working in a variety of traditions discuss methodologies and strategies; the cultural turn in sociological theorizing; interaction processes; theorizing from the systemic and macro level; new directions in evolutionary theorizing; power, conflict, and change; and theorizing from assumptions of rationality.

Contents:

1. Sociological Theory Today / Jonathan H. Turner 1

I. Theoretical Methodologies and Strategies

2. What Makes Sciences "Scientific?" / Stephan Fuchs 21

3. Formal Theory / Guillermina Jasso 37

4. Computational Approaches to Sociological Theorizing / Kathleen M. Carley 69

5. The Critical Dimension in Sociological Theory / Craig Calhoun 85

6. Metatheorizing in Sociology: The Basic Parameters and the Potential Contributions of Postmodernism / George Ritzer, Shanyang Zhao, Jim Murphy 113

II. The Cultural Turn in Sociological Theorizing

7. The Strong Program in Cultural Theory: Elements of a Structural Hermeneutics / Jeffrey Alexander, Philip Smith 135

8. Postmodern Social Theory / George Ritzer, Douglas Goodman 151

9. Culture and Identity / Michele Lamont 171

10. Alley Art: Can We ... See ... at Last, the End of Ontology? / Judith R. Blau 187

III. Theorizing Interaction Processes

11. Traditional Symbolic Interactionism, Role Theory, and Structural Symbolic Interactionism: The Road to Identity Theory / Sheldon Stryker 211

12. Role Theory / Ralph H. Turner 233

13. The Emotional/Relational World: Shame and the Social Bond / Thomas J. Scheff 255

14. Action Theory / Hans Joas, Jens Beckert 269

15. Accounts of Conduct in Interaction: Interruption, Overlap, and Turn-Taking / Emanuel A. Schegloff 287

16. Inequality, Status, and the Construction of Status Beliefs / Cecilia L. Ridgeway 323

IV. Theorizing from the Systemic and Macrolevel

17. Macrostructural Theory / Peter M. Blau 343

18. The Return of Grand Theory / Jonathan H. Turner, David E. Boyns 353

19. Systems Theory / Kenneth D. Bailey 379

V. New Directions in Evolutionary Theorizing

20. Sociobiological Theorizing: Evolutionary Sociology / Joseph Lopreato 405

21. Evolutionary Theorizing / Stephen K. Sanderson 435

VI. Theorizing on Power, Conflict, and Change

22. Sociological Marxism / Michael Burawoy, Erik Olin Wright 459

23. Weberian Theory Today: The Public Face / Alan Sica 487

24. Conflict Theory and Interaction Rituals: The Microfoundations of Conflict Theory / Jorg Rossel, Randall Collins 509

25. Resource Mobilization Theory: Vigorous or Outmoded? / John D. McCarthy, Mayer N. Zald 533

26. Historical Analysis of Political Processes / Charles Tilly 567

27. World-Systems Theory / Christopher Chase-Dunn 589

28. Theoretical Understandings of Gender: A Third of a Century of Feminist Thought in Sociology / Janet Saltzman Chafetz 613

VII. Theorizing from Assumptions of Rationality

29. Social Rationality versus Rational Egoism / Siegwart Lindenberg 635

30. Comparison Theory / Guillermina Jasso 669

31. Exchange and Power: Issues of Structure and Agency / Karen S. Cook, Eric R. W. Rice 699.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

030646554X

OCLC:

45962908