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by Abhijit Kundu
Sociological Theory
Cover
Title Page
Contents
About the Author
Preface
1. Introduction: Origins of Sociological Theory
From Speculative to Definitive
Age of Enlightenment
The Revolutions
Organic Analogy and Evolutionism
Basic Ideas of Sociological Theory
Key Words
Glossary
Discussion Points
2. Karl Heinrich Marx (1818–83)
A Biographical Sketch
Materialist Conception of History
Against Crude Materialism
Dialectics
Laws of Dialectics
Metaphors of Base and Superstructure
Stages of History
Theory of Capitalism
Commodity
Labour Theory of Value
Commodity Fetishism
Surplus Value
Accumulation Process
Crisis of Capitalism
Summary
Key Words
Glossary
Discussion Points
3. Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)
A Biographical Sketch
Social and Intellectual Influences
Method of Study
Rules for Sociological Study
Explanation, Causality and Comparative Method
Mechanical and Organic Solidarity
Conscience Collective: Crime and Punishment
Abnormal Forms of Division of Labour
Sociology of Suicide
Typology of Suicide
Egoistic Suicide
Altruistic Suicide
Anomic Suicide
Summary
Key Words
Glossary
Discussion Points
4. Max Weber (1864–1920)
A Biographical Sketch
Intellectual Background
Method of Sociology
Verstehen Sociology
Social Action
Ideal Types
Rationality
Role of Ideas in History
Spirit of Capitalism
The Protestant Ethic
Summary
Key Words
Glossary
Discussion Points
5. Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923)
Social and Intellectual Influence
Society in Equilibrium
Non-logical Action
Elite Theory: Circulation of Elites
Summary
Key Words
Glossary
Discussion Points
6. Functional School of Thought
Intellectual Influences on Functionalism
Herbert Spencer
Emile Durkheim
The Anthropological Tradition
Talcott Parsons
Social Action Theory
System Analysis
Functional Requisites
Pattern Variables
Functional Imperatives
Robert King Merton (1910–2003)
Critique of Orthodox Functionalism
Theories of the Middle Range
An Alternative Paradigm for Functional Analysis
Summary
Key Words
Glossary
Discussion Points
7. Conflict Theory
Karl Marx
Max Weber
George Simmel
Lewis Coser (1913–2003)
Social and Intellectual Influences
Functional-conflict Theory
Beyond Organismic Analogy
C. Wright Mills (1916–62)
Social and Intellectual Influence
Power
Intellectual Craftsmanship
Ralph Dahrendorf
Against the Equilibrium Model
Imperatively Coordinated Associations and Conflict
Summary
Key Words
Glossary
Discussion Points
8. Symbolic Interactionism
Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)
Looking-glass Self
George Herbert Mead: A Brief Biography and Influences
The Social
The Mind
The Self
Development of the Self: ‘I’; and ‘Me’;
Social Experience and the Act
Herbert Blumer (1900–87)
Symbolic Interactionism as a Perspective
Erving Goffman (1922–82)
Summary
Key Words
Glossary
Discussion Points
9. Social Exchange Theory
Intellectual Roots
George C. Homans (1910–89)
Peter Blau (1918–2002)
Summary
Key Words
Glossary
Discussion Points
10. Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology
Edmund Husserl
Alfred Schutz (1899–1959)
Beyond Weber';s notion of social action
Peter Ludwig Berger (1929– )
Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011)
Summary
Key Words
Glossary
Discussion Points
11. Critical Theory
Intellectual and Social Background
Culture Industry
Georg Lukacs (1885–1971)
Max Harkheimer and Theodor Adorno
Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)
Jurgen Habermas (1929)
Summary
Key Words
Glossary
Discussion Points
12. Post-modern Theory and Post-structural Sociology
Daniel Bell';s Post-industrial Society
Post-modern Theory
Basic Themes in Post-modern Thought
Michel Foucault (1926–84)
Jacques Derrida (1930–2004)
Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924–98)
Knowledge and Post-modern Condition
Zygmunt Bauman (1925– )
Jean Baudrillard (1929– 2007)
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002)
Summary
Key Words
Glossary
Discussion Points
13. Conclusion
Individual and Society
Summary
Bibliography
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