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Handbook of sociological theory / edited by Jonathan H. Turner.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Handbooks of sociology and social research
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology--Philosophy.
- Sociology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 745 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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:
- Sociological Theory Today / Jonathan H. Turner
- Theoretical Methodologies and Strategies
- What Makes Sciences "Scientific?" / Stephan Fuchs
- Formal Theory / Guillermina Jasso
- Computational Approaches to Sociological Theorizing / Kathleen M. Carley
- The Critical Dimension in Sociological Theory / Craig Calhoun
- Metatheorizing in Sociology: The Basic Parameters and the Potential Contributions of Postmodernism / George Ritzer, Shanyang Zhao, Jim Murphy
- The Cultural Turn in Sociological Theorizing
- The Strong Program in Cultural Theory: Elements of a Structural Hermeneutics / Jeffrey Alexander, Philip Smith
- Postmodern Social Theory / George Ritzer, Douglas Goodman
- Culture and Identity / Michele Lamont
- Alley Art: Can We ... See ... at Last, the End of Ontology? / Judith R. Blau
- Theorizing Interaction Processes
- Traditional Symbolic Interactionism, Role Theory, and Structural Symbolic Interactionism: The Road to Identity Theory / Sheldon Stryker
- Role Theory / Ralph H. Turner
- The Emotional/Relational World: Shame and the Social Bond / Thomas J. Scheff
- Action Theory / Hans Joas, Jens Beckert
- Accounts of Conduct in Interaction: Interruption, Overlap, and Turn-Taking / Emanuel A. Schegloff
- Inequality, Status, and the Construction of Status Beliefs / Cecilia L. Ridgeway
- Theorizing from the Systemic and Macrolevel
- Macrostructural Theory / Peter M. Blau
- The Return of Grand Theory / Jonathan H. Turner, David E. Boyns
- Systems Theory / Kenneth D. Bailey.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780387362748
- 0387362746
- Publisher Number:
- 99990103843
- 9780306465543
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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