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Frontiers of Social Theory. the New Syntheses
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Studies social theory in the 1990's as it moves away from adherence to a given theory and moves toward synthesizing theories and analyzing the interrelations among various levels of analysis.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Current Status of Sociological Theory: The New Syntheses
- PART I. NEW LIFE IN SOME TRADITIONAL SOCIAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES
- 2. Neofunctionalism Today: Reconstructing a Theoretical Tradition
- 3. Conflict Theory and the Advance of Macro-Historical Sociology
- 4. The Decline of the Grand Narrative of Emancipatory Modernity: Crisis or Renewal in Neo-Marxian Theory?
- 5. Symbolic Interactionism in the Post-Blumerian Age
- 6. Exchange Theory: A Blueprint for Structure and Process
- II. LIVELINESS OF MORE RECENT SOCIAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES
- 7. The World as It Happens: Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
- 8. The Comparative Advantages of Rational Choice Theory
- 9. The Uses of French Structuralisms in Sociology
- 10. The Postmodern Turn: Positions, Problems, and Prospects
- 11. Betwixt and Between: Recent Cultural Sociology in Europe and the United States
- 12. Feminist Sociological Theory: The Near-Future Prospects
- III. OVERVIEWS OF SOCIAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
- 13. Micro-Macro Linkage in Sociological Theory: Applying a Metatheoretical Tool
- 14. The Past, Present, and Future of Theory in American Sociology
- 15. The History and Politics of Recent Sociological Theory
- NAME INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX