Handbook of Social Theory

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Introduction - George Ritzer and Barry Smart Theorists, Theories and Theorizing PART ONE: CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY Modernity, Enlightenment, Revolution and Romanticism - John Rundell Creating Social Theory The Origins of Positivism - Jonathan H Turner The Contributions of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer Maintaining Marx - Gregor McLennan Max Weber - Sam Whimster Work and Interpretation The Continuing Relevance of Georg Simmel - Birgitta Nedelmann Staking Out Anew the Field of Sociology Durkheim's Project for a Sociological Science - Mike Gane The Emergence of the New - Hans Joas Mead's Theory and Its Contemporary Potential Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge - David Kettler and Volker Meja Psychoanalysis and Sociology - John O'Neill From Freudo-Marxism to Freudo-Feminism Classical Feminist Social Theory - Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY Functional, Conflict and Neofunctional Theories - Mark Abrahamson Talcott Parsons - Robert J Holton Conservative Apologist or Irreplaceable Icon? Nietzsche - Robert J Antonio Social Theory in the Twilight of the Millennium Critical Theory - Craig Calhoun and Joseph Karaganis J[um]urgen Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action - Richard Harvey Brown and Douglas Goodman An Incomplete Project Symbolic Interactionism at the End of the Century - Kent L Sandstrom, Daniel D Martin and Gary Alan Fine Phenomenology and Social Theory - Harvie Ferguson Fundamentals of Ethnomethodology - Wes Sharrock Theories of Social Exchange and Exchange Networks - Linda D Molm Sociological Rational Choice - Douglas D Heckathorn Contemporary Feminist Theory - Mary F Rogers Multiculturalism - Charles Lemert Social Theory and the Postmodern - Stephen Crook Michel Foucault - Mitchell Dean 'A Man in Danger' The Macro/Micro Problem and the Problem of Structure and Agency - Barry Barnes Norbert Elias and Process Sociology - Robert van Krieken PART THREE: ISSUES IN SOCIAL THEORY Positivism in the Twentieth Century - Peter Halfpenny Metatheorizing in Sociology - Shanyang Zhao Cultural Studies and Social Theory - Douglas Kellner A Critical Intervention Theories of Consumption - George Ritzer, Douglas Goodman and Wendy Wiedenhoft Sexualities - Anthony Elliott Social Theory and the Crisis of Identity The Embodied Foundations of Social Theory - Chris Shilling Globalization Theory 2000+ - Roland Robertson Major Problematics Nationalism - Gerard Delanty Between Nation and State Socialism - Peter Beilharz Modern Hopes, Postmodern Shadows Modern Societies as Knowledge Societies - Nico Stehr Sociology, Morality and Ethics - Barry Smart On Being with Others Postsocial Relations - Karin Knorr Cetina Theorizing Sociality in a Post-social Environment

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