- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- About the Author
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: Origins of Sociological Theory
- 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)
- 5. Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923)
- 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
- 10. Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology
- 11. Critical Theory
- 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
- Bibliography
- Copyright
Sociological Theory
Abhijit Kundu
Delhi • Chennai • Chandigarh
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