Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory / edited by Seth Abrutyn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abrutyn, Seth, Editor.

Series:

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research, 1389-6903

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology.

Political science.

Sociology, general.

Political Science.

Local Subjects:

Sociology, general.

Political Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVIII, 578 p. 16 illus., 3 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.

Summary:

This Handbook provides the hidden common threads that tie sociological inquiry together and, featuring eminent scholars, it separates itself from its predecessors in substance and organization. Rather than rehashing old debates or longingly gazing at the past, this book presents sociologists with new ways of conceptualizing the organization and presentation of sociological theory. At the heart of this Handbook’s vision is the twin goals of making theory a viable enterprise by reconceptualizing how we teach theory and keeping theory closely tied to its empirical applications. Three strategies are offered: (1) Elucidating how classic issues like integration or interaction are interrogated today; (2) Presenting a coherent vision of the social levels of reality that theorists work on such as communities, groups, and the self as well as how the coherence of these levels speaks to the macro-micro link; and, (3) Theorizing the social world rather than celebrating theorists or theories; that is, one can look at how theory is used holistically to understand the constraints the social world places on our lived experience or the dynamics of social change. Hence, in the second decade of the 21st century, it has become clear that sociology is at a crossroads as the number of theorists and amount of theory available is increasingly unmanageable and unknowable by the vast majority of professionals and students. As such, this Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory presents the novice and the expert with the a roadmap for traversing this crossroad and building a more coherent, robust, and cumulative sociology.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction: Seth Abrutyn

Part 1. Classical Problems Contemporalized

Chapter 2. Integrating and Disintegrating Dynamics in Human Societies; Jonathan H. Turner

Chapter 3. Power in Organizational Society: Macro, Meso and Micro; Yingyao Wang and Simone Polillo

Chapter 4. Action in Society: Reflexively Conceptualizing Activities; Andreas Glaeser

Chapter 5. Interactionism: Meaning and Self as Process; Iddo Tavory

Chapter 6. Cultural Theory; Omar Lizardo

Part II. Rethinking the Macro-Micro Link

Chapter 7. The Macro and Meso Basis of the Micro Social Order; Jonathan H. Turner

Chapter 8. The Problem of Social Order in Nested Group Structures; Edward J. Lawler, Shane R. Thye and Jeongkoo Yoon

Chapter 9. Social Networks and Relational Sociology; Nick Crossley

Chapter 10. Varieties of Sociological Field Theory; Daniel N. Kluttz and Neil Fligstein

Part III. A Coherent Social Universe

Chapter 11. Institutional Spheres: The Macro-structure and Culture of Social Life; Seth Abrutyn

Chapter 12. Stratification; Katja M. Guenther, Matthew C. Mahutga and Panu Suppatkul

Chapter 13. The Concept of Community as Theoretical Ground: Contention and Compatibility Across Levels of Analysis and standpoints of Social Processes; Michael D. Irwin

Chapter 14. Organizations as Sites and Drivers of Social Action; Walter W. Powell and Christof Brandtner

Chapter 15. Small Groups: Reflections of And Building Blocks for Social Structure: Stephen Benard and Trenton D. Mize

Chapter 16. The Thories of Status Characteristics and Expectation States; Murray Webster, Jr. and Lisa Slattery Walker

Chapter 17. The Self; Alicia D. Cast and Jan E. Stets

Part IV. Constraints on Experience

Chapter 18. Microsociologies: Social Exchange, Trust, Justice and Legitimacy; Michael J. Carter

Chapter 19. Ethnomethodology and Social Phenomenology; Jason Turowetz, Mathhew M. Hollander and Douglas W. Maynard

Chapter 20. Theory in Sociology of Emotions; Emi A. Weed and Lynn Smith-Lovin

Chapter 21. Sociology as the Study of Morality; Kevin McCaffree

Chapter 22. Forgetting to Remember: The Present Neglect abd Future Prospects of Collective Memory in Sociology Theory; Christina Simko

Chapter 23. Intersectionality; Zandria Felice Robinson

Part V. Modes of Change

Chapter 24. Social Evolution; Richard Machalek and Michael W. Martin

Chapter 25. Reimagining Collective Behavior; Justin Van Ness and Erika Summers-Effler

Chapter 26. Theorizing Social Movements; Dana M. Moss and David A. Snow.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

3-319-32250-8