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Frontiers of Social Theory. the New Syntheses / ed. by George Ritzer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1990]Copyright date: ©1990Description: 1 online resource (434 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780231912549
  • 9780231882828
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- 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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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