The social lens : an invitation to social and sociological theory
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc, 2013. Edition: 2nd edDescription: 661pSubject(s): DDC classification: - 301 ALL
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The Social Lens: An Invitation to Social and Sociological Theory, Second Edition, is an undergraduate social theory textbook organized around the issues of modernity and the influences of Talcott Parsons and the Frankfurt school. Author Kenneth Allan engages students in the history of social change that spawned the major sociological theories and shows how these theories can be applied to current social influences. Chosen for the diversity of their perspectives and their suitability for introducing students to contemporary theory, a wide variety of theorists materialize in the text, with their individual voices vividly intact. The extensive use of relevant quotes throughout the book demonstrates the power and poetry of theory to students exploring this area for the first time.
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Modernity and the sociological response -- On theory --
The evolution of society : Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) --
Contradictions in capitalism : Karl Marx (1818-1883) --
The irrationality of rationality : Max Weber (1864-1920) --
The problem with diversity : Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) --
The modern person : George Herbert Mead and Georg Simmel --
The challenges of gender and race : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and W. E. B. du Bois
- Contemporary sociological theory -- Structural functionalism : Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Merton -- And Jeffrey C. Alexander -- Conflict theory : Lewis Coser, Ralf Dahrendorf, and Randall Collins -
- What happened to class? : Erik Olin Wright, Daniel Bell, and Pierre Bourdieu -- Structures of racial and gender inequality : William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz -- Exchange theory : George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins
-- Self and situation : Erving Goffman, R. S. Perinbanayagam, and harold Garfinkel -- Contemporary new visions and critiques -- Problems in modernity : Jorgen Habermas and Anthony Giddens -
- Globalizing systems : Immanuel Wallerstein and Manuel Castells -
- Upsetting reality : Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard --
Politics of identity : Dorothy E. Smith, Patricia Hill Collins, and Cornel West -
- References -- Index -- About the author.
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