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Introduction to Sociological Theory : Theorists, Concepts, and Their Applicability to the Twenty-First Century.

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Intro -- Introduction to Sociological Theory: Theorists, Concepts, and Their Applicability to the Twenty-First Century -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Boxed Features -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- How to Use This Book -- Introduction: Welcome to Sociological Theory -- ANALYZING SOCIAL LIFE -- SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION AND THE ORIGINS OF SOCIOLOGY -- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SOCIOLOGY -- EVOLUTIONARY PROGRESS AND AUGUSTE COMTE'S VISION OF SOCIOLOGY -- THE SOCIOLOGICAL CRAFT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER ONE KARL MARX (1818-1883) -- EXPANSION OF CAPITALISM -- CAPITALISM AS STRUCTURED INEQUALITY -- MARX'S THEORY OF HISTORY -- DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM -- MARX'S VISION OF COMMUNISM -- THE MILLENNIUM'S GREATEST THINKER -- HUMAN NATURE -- MATERIAL AND SOCIAL EXISTENCE INTERTWINED -- CAPITALISM AS A DISTINCTIVE SOCIAL FORM -- PRIVATE PRoPERTY -- THE PRODUCTION OF PROFIT -- THE COMMODIFICATION OF LABOR POWER -- PROFESSIONAL SPORTS: THE COMMODIFICATION OF LABOR POWER IN ACTION -- WORK: LIFE SACRIFICE -- WAGE-LABOR -- WAGE-LABOR AND SURPLUS VALUE -- THE GAP BETWEEN EXCHANGE-VALUE AND USE-VALUE -- THE DIVISION OF LABOR AND ALIENATION -- THE PRODUCTION PROCESS -- ALIENATED LABOR -- THE OPPRESSION OF CAPITALISTS -- ECONOMIC INEQUALITY -- INCOME DISPARITIES -- MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO -- IDEOLOGY AND POWER -- EVERYDAY EXISTENCE AND THE NORMALITY OF IDEAS -- FREEDOM TO SHOP -- IDEOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION -- THE MYSTICAL VALUE OF COMMODITIES -- THE CAPITALIST SUPERSTRUCTURE -- THE RULING POWER OF MONEY IN POLITICS -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER TWO EMILE DURKHEIM (1858-1917) -- DURKHEIM'S METHODOLOGICAL RULES -- SCIENTIFIC SOCIOLOGY: THE STUDY OF SOCIAL FACTS.
STUDYING SOCIAL FACTS AS THINGS -- SOCIAL FACTS AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS -- THE NATURE OF SOCIETY -- COOPERATION AS THE KEY TO SOCIAL LIFE -- THE CONSTRAINT OF SOCIETAL EXPECTATIONS -- AN ARMY OF ONE -- CHANGE AND RESISTANCE -- SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION AND SOCIAL COHESION -- TRADITIONAL SOCIETY -- THE SOCIETAL ABSORPTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL -- MECHANICAL SOLIDARITY -- MODERN SOCIETY -- SPECIALIZED DIVISION OF LABOR -- SOCIAL INTERDEPENDENCE -- THE DENSITY OF SOCIAL INTERACTION -- ORGANIC SOLIDARITY -- THE MORAL-SOCIAL BASIS OF CONTRACT -- SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF SUICIDE -- SUICIDE : A SOCIAL FACT -- ALTRUISTIC SUICIDE -- EGOISTIC SUICIDE -- ANOMIC SUICIDE -- ABNORMALITIES THAT THREATEN SOCIAL COHESION -- ANOMIE THAT FOSTERS SOCIAL COHESION -- RELIGION AND THE SACRED -- SACRED THINGS -- SACRED BELIEFS AND RITUALS -- THE ASSEMBLING OF COMMUNITY -- RELIGION AND SCIENCE -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER THREE MAX WEBER (1864-1920) -- SOCIOLOGY: UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL ACTION -- CULTURE AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY -- THE PROTESTANT-CAPITALIST PUZZLE -- THE PROTESTANT ETHIC -- THE REFORMATION -- SALVATION AND PREDESTINATION -- PROVING ONE'S SALVATION -- RATIONAL SELF-REGULATION AND SELF-CONTROL -- PROTESTANT-WESTERN INDIVIDUALISM -- IDEAL TYPES -- SOCIAL ACTION -- VALUE-RATIONAL ACTION -- INSTRUMENTAL RATIONAL ACTION -- NON-RATIONAL ACTION -- THE INTERPLAY OF RATIONAL AND NON-RATIONAL ACTION -- VALUES AND EMOTIONS IN THE CORPORATE WORLD -- WANTING A CHILD: EMOTION, VALUES, AND INSTRUMENTAL RATIONALITY -- POWER, AUTHORITY, AND DOMINATION -- THE LEGAL AUTHORITY OF THE STATE -- BUREAUCRACY -- CHARISMATIC AUTHORITY -- SOCIAL STRATIFICATION -- GRADIENTS OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY -- SOCIAL STATUS -- POLITICAL POWER -- MODERNITY AND COMPETING VALUES -- SCIENCE AND VALUES -- THE VALUE NEUTRALITY OF SCIENCE -- SUMMARY.
POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER FOUR TALCOTT PARSONS AND ROBERT MERTON: FUNCTIONALISM AND MODERNIZATION -- TALCOTT PARSONS -- DEVELOPING SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY -- BLENDING THEORY AND DATA -- PARSONS'S INTELLECTUAL DEBT TO WEBER AND DURKHEIM -- THE SOCIAL SYSTEM -- SOCIAL ACTION -- NORMATIVE REGULATION -- SOCIALIZATION AND SOCIETAL INTEGRATION -- VALUES CONSENSUS -- SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION, CULTURE, AND THE SECULARIZATION OF PROTESTANTISM -- RELIGION AS A SOURCE OF CULTURAL INTEGRATION -- VALUE-ORIENTATIONS IN A TIME OF GLOBAL SOCIAL CHANGE -- PATTERN VARIABLES -- THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP -- CHANGE IN THE MEDICAL SYSTEM -- MODERNIZATION THEORY -- AMERICAN SOCIETY AS THE PROTOTYPE OF MODERNIZATION -- STRATIFICATION AND INEQUALITY -- FUNCTIONALISM OF SEX ROLES -- ROBERT MERTON'S MIDDLE-RANGE THEORY -- MANIFEST AND LATENT FUNCTIONS -- SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES -- STRAIN BETWEEN CULTURE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE -- PARSONS'S LEGACY: VARIED DIRECTIONS -- NIKLAS LUHMANN: SYSTEMS THEORY -- JEFFREY ALEXANDER: THE CIVIL SPHERE -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY: PARSONS -- GLOSSARY: MERTON, LUHMANN, ALEXANDER -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER FIVE CRITICAL THEORY TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE, AND POLITICS: TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE, AND POLITICS -- CRITICAL THEORY -- TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS -- DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT -- TECHNOLOGY AS SOCIAL CONTROL -- SOCIETY'S RATIONAL CONTROL OF NATURE -- MASS CULTURE AND CONSUMPTION -- TECHNOLOGY AND PROFIT -- CULTURE OF ADVERTISING -- CONTROLLED CONSUMPTION -- MEDIA REALITY -- CULTURAL TOTALITARIANISM -- ACTIVE CONSUMERS AND AUDIENCES -- POLITICS: UNIFORMITY AND CONTROL -- TECHNOLOGY AS POLITICAL CONTROL -- JÜRGEN HABERMAS: THE STATE AND SOCIETY -- ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL STEERING PROBLEMS -- LEGITIMATION CRISES.
COMMUNICATION AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE -- DISTORTED COMMUNICATION -- REASON IN THE CONTEXT OF EVERYDAY LIFE -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER SIX CONFLICT, POWER, AND DEPENDENCY IN MACRO-SOCIETAL PROCESSES -- RALF DAHRENDORF'S THEORY OF GROUP CONFLICT -- CONFLICT GROUPS -- CLASS CONFLICT IN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY -- THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF CLASS CONFLICT -- THE MULTIPLICITY OF CONFLICT GROUPS -- C. WRIGHT MILLS -- THE NEW MIDDLE CLASS -- THE POWER ELITE -- SHIFTS IN THE COMPOSITION OF THE POWER ELITE -- WOMEN IN THE POWER ELITE -- THE PASSIVE, MASS SOCIETY -- DEPENDENCY THEORY: NEO-MARXIST CRITIQUES OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -- CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT -- DEPENDENCY RELATIONS IN ECONOMIC UNDERDEVELOPMENT -- CHALLENGES TO MODERNIZATION THEORY -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER SEVEN EXCHANGE, EXCHANGE NETWORK, AND RATIONAL CHOICE THEORIES -- EXCHANGE THEORY -- GEORGE HOMANS: INDIVIDUAL ACTORS IN SOCIAL EXCHANGE -- PETER BLAU: SOCIAL EXCHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONS -- EXCHANGE NETWORK THEORY -- POWER AND MISTRUST IN SOCIAL EXCHANGE NETWORKS -- THE INSTITUTIONAL REGULATION OF TRUST -- NETWORKS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL -- THE STRENGTH OF WEAK TIES -- ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY (ANT) -- RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY -- MAXIMIZATION OF INDIVIDUAL INTEREST -- HUMAN CAPITAL AND SOCIAL CAPITAL -- NEGOTIATING SCARCE RESOURCES -- MARRIAGE: STRUCTURAL AND CULTURAL CONSTRAINTS ON SELF-INTEREST -- ANALYTICAL MARXISM -- CLASS LOCATIONS -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY: EXCHANGE THEORY -- GLOSSARY: EXCHANGE NETWORK THEORY -- GLOSSARY: ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY (ANT) -- GLOSSARY: RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY -- GLOSSARY: ANALYTICAL MARXISM -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER EIGHT SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE SELF THROUGH SOCIAL INTERACTION -- THE LOOKING-GLASS SELF -- SOCIALIZATION -- BEYOND THE SELF: THE CONVERSATION OF GESTURES -- THE PREMISES OF SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM -- THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HUMAN INTERACTION -- ERVING GOFFMAN: SOCIETY AS RITUALIZED SOCIAL INTERACTION -- SOCIAL ROLES -- PERFORMANCE PRESSURE -- ESTABLISHING THE DEFINITION OF THE SITUATION -- INTERACTION RITUALS -- NON-VERBAL RITUALIZED INTERACTION -- IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT -- TOTAL INSTITUTIONS -- MANAGING OUR AUDIENCES -- MISREPRESENTATION -- STIGMA -- PASSING -- INSTITUTIONAL FRAME ANALYSIS -- SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM AND ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER NINE PHENOMENOLOGY AND ETHNOMETHODOLOGY -- PHENOMENOLOGY -- EXPERIENCE, MEANING, AND SOCIAL ACTION -- HERE-AND-NOW, EVERYDAY REALITY -- SHARED, INTERSUBJECTIVE REALITY -- EVERYDAY REALITY AS THE SOCIAL REALITY -- ORDERED REALITY -- PHENOMENOLOGICAL DIVERSITY -- THE STRANGER -- THE HOMECOMER -- SYMBOLIC UNIVERSES -- ETHNOMETHODOLOGY -- THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF SOCIAL REALITY -- THE CORONER'S OFFICE: ESTABLISHING HOW INDIVIDUALS DIED AND LIVED -- JURORS ACCOMPLISHING REALITY -- PRODUCING AN ORDERED REALITY -- GENDER AS AN ACCOMPLISHED REALITY -- RESEARCHING THE DOING OF REALITY-MAKING -- BREACHING EXPERIMENTS -- CONVERSATION ANALYSIS -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY: PHENOMENOLOGY -- GLOSSARY: ETHNOMETHODOLOGY -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER TEN FEMINIST THEORIES -- CONSCIOUSNESS OF WOMEN'S INEQUALITY -- STANDPOINT THEORY: DOROTHY SMITH AND THE RELATIONS OF RULING -- ADVERTISING FEMININITY -- THE RULES OF SOCIOLOGY AND THE EXCLUSION OF WOMEN'S STANDPOINT -- RULING TEXTS AND THE EXCLUSION OF EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES -- KNOWING FROM WITHIN LOCAL EXPERIENCES -- WOMEN'S REALITIES.
NEGOTIATING TWO WORLDS SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Sammanfattning: The extensively revised and updated second edition combines carefully chosen primary quotes with wide-ranging discussion and everyday illustrative examples to provide an in-depth introduction to classical and contemporary sociological theory. Combines classical and contemporary theory in a single, integrated text Short biographies and historical timelines of significant events provide context to theorists' ideas Innovatively builds on excerpts from original theoretical writings with detailed discussion of the concepts and ideas under review Includes new examples of current social processes in China, South Korea, India, Latin America, the Middle East, and other non-Western societies Additional resources, available at www.wiley.com/go/dillon, include multiple choice and essay questions, PowerPoint slides with multimedia links to content illustrative of sociological processes, a list of complementary primary readings, a quotation bank, and other background materials.
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Intro -- Introduction to Sociological Theory: Theorists, Concepts, and Their Applicability to the Twenty-First Century -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Boxed Features -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- How to Use This Book -- Introduction: Welcome to Sociological Theory -- ANALYZING SOCIAL LIFE -- SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION AND THE ORIGINS OF SOCIOLOGY -- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SOCIOLOGY -- EVOLUTIONARY PROGRESS AND AUGUSTE COMTE'S VISION OF SOCIOLOGY -- THE SOCIOLOGICAL CRAFT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER ONE KARL MARX (1818-1883) -- EXPANSION OF CAPITALISM -- CAPITALISM AS STRUCTURED INEQUALITY -- MARX'S THEORY OF HISTORY -- DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM -- MARX'S VISION OF COMMUNISM -- THE MILLENNIUM'S GREATEST THINKER -- HUMAN NATURE -- MATERIAL AND SOCIAL EXISTENCE INTERTWINED -- CAPITALISM AS A DISTINCTIVE SOCIAL FORM -- PRIVATE PRoPERTY -- THE PRODUCTION OF PROFIT -- THE COMMODIFICATION OF LABOR POWER -- PROFESSIONAL SPORTS: THE COMMODIFICATION OF LABOR POWER IN ACTION -- WORK: LIFE SACRIFICE -- WAGE-LABOR -- WAGE-LABOR AND SURPLUS VALUE -- THE GAP BETWEEN EXCHANGE-VALUE AND USE-VALUE -- THE DIVISION OF LABOR AND ALIENATION -- THE PRODUCTION PROCESS -- ALIENATED LABOR -- THE OPPRESSION OF CAPITALISTS -- ECONOMIC INEQUALITY -- INCOME DISPARITIES -- MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO -- IDEOLOGY AND POWER -- EVERYDAY EXISTENCE AND THE NORMALITY OF IDEAS -- FREEDOM TO SHOP -- IDEOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION -- THE MYSTICAL VALUE OF COMMODITIES -- THE CAPITALIST SUPERSTRUCTURE -- THE RULING POWER OF MONEY IN POLITICS -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER TWO EMILE DURKHEIM (1858-1917) -- DURKHEIM'S METHODOLOGICAL RULES -- SCIENTIFIC SOCIOLOGY: THE STUDY OF SOCIAL FACTS.

STUDYING SOCIAL FACTS AS THINGS -- SOCIAL FACTS AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS -- THE NATURE OF SOCIETY -- COOPERATION AS THE KEY TO SOCIAL LIFE -- THE CONSTRAINT OF SOCIETAL EXPECTATIONS -- AN ARMY OF ONE -- CHANGE AND RESISTANCE -- SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION AND SOCIAL COHESION -- TRADITIONAL SOCIETY -- THE SOCIETAL ABSORPTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL -- MECHANICAL SOLIDARITY -- MODERN SOCIETY -- SPECIALIZED DIVISION OF LABOR -- SOCIAL INTERDEPENDENCE -- THE DENSITY OF SOCIAL INTERACTION -- ORGANIC SOLIDARITY -- THE MORAL-SOCIAL BASIS OF CONTRACT -- SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF SUICIDE -- SUICIDE : A SOCIAL FACT -- ALTRUISTIC SUICIDE -- EGOISTIC SUICIDE -- ANOMIC SUICIDE -- ABNORMALITIES THAT THREATEN SOCIAL COHESION -- ANOMIE THAT FOSTERS SOCIAL COHESION -- RELIGION AND THE SACRED -- SACRED THINGS -- SACRED BELIEFS AND RITUALS -- THE ASSEMBLING OF COMMUNITY -- RELIGION AND SCIENCE -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER THREE MAX WEBER (1864-1920) -- SOCIOLOGY: UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL ACTION -- CULTURE AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY -- THE PROTESTANT-CAPITALIST PUZZLE -- THE PROTESTANT ETHIC -- THE REFORMATION -- SALVATION AND PREDESTINATION -- PROVING ONE'S SALVATION -- RATIONAL SELF-REGULATION AND SELF-CONTROL -- PROTESTANT-WESTERN INDIVIDUALISM -- IDEAL TYPES -- SOCIAL ACTION -- VALUE-RATIONAL ACTION -- INSTRUMENTAL RATIONAL ACTION -- NON-RATIONAL ACTION -- THE INTERPLAY OF RATIONAL AND NON-RATIONAL ACTION -- VALUES AND EMOTIONS IN THE CORPORATE WORLD -- WANTING A CHILD: EMOTION, VALUES, AND INSTRUMENTAL RATIONALITY -- POWER, AUTHORITY, AND DOMINATION -- THE LEGAL AUTHORITY OF THE STATE -- BUREAUCRACY -- CHARISMATIC AUTHORITY -- SOCIAL STRATIFICATION -- GRADIENTS OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY -- SOCIAL STATUS -- POLITICAL POWER -- MODERNITY AND COMPETING VALUES -- SCIENCE AND VALUES -- THE VALUE NEUTRALITY OF SCIENCE -- SUMMARY.

POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER FOUR TALCOTT PARSONS AND ROBERT MERTON: FUNCTIONALISM AND MODERNIZATION -- TALCOTT PARSONS -- DEVELOPING SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY -- BLENDING THEORY AND DATA -- PARSONS'S INTELLECTUAL DEBT TO WEBER AND DURKHEIM -- THE SOCIAL SYSTEM -- SOCIAL ACTION -- NORMATIVE REGULATION -- SOCIALIZATION AND SOCIETAL INTEGRATION -- VALUES CONSENSUS -- SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION, CULTURE, AND THE SECULARIZATION OF PROTESTANTISM -- RELIGION AS A SOURCE OF CULTURAL INTEGRATION -- VALUE-ORIENTATIONS IN A TIME OF GLOBAL SOCIAL CHANGE -- PATTERN VARIABLES -- THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP -- CHANGE IN THE MEDICAL SYSTEM -- MODERNIZATION THEORY -- AMERICAN SOCIETY AS THE PROTOTYPE OF MODERNIZATION -- STRATIFICATION AND INEQUALITY -- FUNCTIONALISM OF SEX ROLES -- ROBERT MERTON'S MIDDLE-RANGE THEORY -- MANIFEST AND LATENT FUNCTIONS -- SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES -- STRAIN BETWEEN CULTURE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE -- PARSONS'S LEGACY: VARIED DIRECTIONS -- NIKLAS LUHMANN: SYSTEMS THEORY -- JEFFREY ALEXANDER: THE CIVIL SPHERE -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY: PARSONS -- GLOSSARY: MERTON, LUHMANN, ALEXANDER -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER FIVE CRITICAL THEORY TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE, AND POLITICS: TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE, AND POLITICS -- CRITICAL THEORY -- TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS -- DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT -- TECHNOLOGY AS SOCIAL CONTROL -- SOCIETY'S RATIONAL CONTROL OF NATURE -- MASS CULTURE AND CONSUMPTION -- TECHNOLOGY AND PROFIT -- CULTURE OF ADVERTISING -- CONTROLLED CONSUMPTION -- MEDIA REALITY -- CULTURAL TOTALITARIANISM -- ACTIVE CONSUMERS AND AUDIENCES -- POLITICS: UNIFORMITY AND CONTROL -- TECHNOLOGY AS POLITICAL CONTROL -- JÜRGEN HABERMAS: THE STATE AND SOCIETY -- ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL STEERING PROBLEMS -- LEGITIMATION CRISES.

COMMUNICATION AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE -- DISTORTED COMMUNICATION -- REASON IN THE CONTEXT OF EVERYDAY LIFE -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER SIX CONFLICT, POWER, AND DEPENDENCY IN MACRO-SOCIETAL PROCESSES -- RALF DAHRENDORF'S THEORY OF GROUP CONFLICT -- CONFLICT GROUPS -- CLASS CONFLICT IN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY -- THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF CLASS CONFLICT -- THE MULTIPLICITY OF CONFLICT GROUPS -- C. WRIGHT MILLS -- THE NEW MIDDLE CLASS -- THE POWER ELITE -- SHIFTS IN THE COMPOSITION OF THE POWER ELITE -- WOMEN IN THE POWER ELITE -- THE PASSIVE, MASS SOCIETY -- DEPENDENCY THEORY: NEO-MARXIST CRITIQUES OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -- CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT -- DEPENDENCY RELATIONS IN ECONOMIC UNDERDEVELOPMENT -- CHALLENGES TO MODERNIZATION THEORY -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER SEVEN EXCHANGE, EXCHANGE NETWORK, AND RATIONAL CHOICE THEORIES -- EXCHANGE THEORY -- GEORGE HOMANS: INDIVIDUAL ACTORS IN SOCIAL EXCHANGE -- PETER BLAU: SOCIAL EXCHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONS -- EXCHANGE NETWORK THEORY -- POWER AND MISTRUST IN SOCIAL EXCHANGE NETWORKS -- THE INSTITUTIONAL REGULATION OF TRUST -- NETWORKS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL -- THE STRENGTH OF WEAK TIES -- ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY (ANT) -- RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY -- MAXIMIZATION OF INDIVIDUAL INTEREST -- HUMAN CAPITAL AND SOCIAL CAPITAL -- NEGOTIATING SCARCE RESOURCES -- MARRIAGE: STRUCTURAL AND CULTURAL CONSTRAINTS ON SELF-INTEREST -- ANALYTICAL MARXISM -- CLASS LOCATIONS -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY: EXCHANGE THEORY -- GLOSSARY: EXCHANGE NETWORK THEORY -- GLOSSARY: ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY (ANT) -- GLOSSARY: RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY -- GLOSSARY: ANALYTICAL MARXISM -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER EIGHT SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE SELF THROUGH SOCIAL INTERACTION -- THE LOOKING-GLASS SELF -- SOCIALIZATION -- BEYOND THE SELF: THE CONVERSATION OF GESTURES -- THE PREMISES OF SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM -- THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HUMAN INTERACTION -- ERVING GOFFMAN: SOCIETY AS RITUALIZED SOCIAL INTERACTION -- SOCIAL ROLES -- PERFORMANCE PRESSURE -- ESTABLISHING THE DEFINITION OF THE SITUATION -- INTERACTION RITUALS -- NON-VERBAL RITUALIZED INTERACTION -- IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT -- TOTAL INSTITUTIONS -- MANAGING OUR AUDIENCES -- MISREPRESENTATION -- STIGMA -- PASSING -- INSTITUTIONAL FRAME ANALYSIS -- SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM AND ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER NINE PHENOMENOLOGY AND ETHNOMETHODOLOGY -- PHENOMENOLOGY -- EXPERIENCE, MEANING, AND SOCIAL ACTION -- HERE-AND-NOW, EVERYDAY REALITY -- SHARED, INTERSUBJECTIVE REALITY -- EVERYDAY REALITY AS THE SOCIAL REALITY -- ORDERED REALITY -- PHENOMENOLOGICAL DIVERSITY -- THE STRANGER -- THE HOMECOMER -- SYMBOLIC UNIVERSES -- ETHNOMETHODOLOGY -- THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF SOCIAL REALITY -- THE CORONER'S OFFICE: ESTABLISHING HOW INDIVIDUALS DIED AND LIVED -- JURORS ACCOMPLISHING REALITY -- PRODUCING AN ORDERED REALITY -- GENDER AS AN ACCOMPLISHED REALITY -- RESEARCHING THE DOING OF REALITY-MAKING -- BREACHING EXPERIMENTS -- CONVERSATION ANALYSIS -- SUMMARY -- POINTS TO REMEMBER -- GLOSSARY: PHENOMENOLOGY -- GLOSSARY: ETHNOMETHODOLOGY -- QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER TEN FEMINIST THEORIES -- CONSCIOUSNESS OF WOMEN'S INEQUALITY -- STANDPOINT THEORY: DOROTHY SMITH AND THE RELATIONS OF RULING -- ADVERTISING FEMININITY -- THE RULES OF SOCIOLOGY AND THE EXCLUSION OF WOMEN'S STANDPOINT -- RULING TEXTS AND THE EXCLUSION OF EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES -- KNOWING FROM WITHIN LOCAL EXPERIENCES -- WOMEN'S REALITIES.

NEGOTIATING TWO WORLDS SIMULTANEOUSLY.

The extensively revised and updated second edition combines carefully chosen primary quotes with wide-ranging discussion and everyday illustrative examples to provide an in-depth introduction to classical and contemporary sociological theory. Combines classical and contemporary theory in a single, integrated text Short biographies and historical timelines of significant events provide context to theorists' ideas Innovatively builds on excerpts from original theoretical writings with detailed discussion of the concepts and ideas under review Includes new examples of current social processes in China, South Korea, India, Latin America, the Middle East, and other non-Western societies Additional resources, available at www.wiley.com/go/dillon, include multiple choice and essay questions, PowerPoint slides with multimedia links to content illustrative of sociological processes, a list of complementary primary readings, a quotation bank, and other background materials.

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