Contemporary sociological theory and its classical roots: the basics
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PREFACE xi
LIST OF BOXES xv
ABOUT THE A UTHOR xvii
1. Introduction to Sociological Theory 1
2. Classical Theories I 13
3. Classical Theories II 43
4. Contemporary Grand Theories I 64
5. Contemporary Grand Theories II 103
6. Contemporary Theories of Everyday Life 132
7. Contemporary Integrative Theories 163
8. Contemporary Feminist Theories 185
by Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge
9. Postmodern Grand Theories 215
10. Globalization Theory 252
GLOSSARY 285
PERMISSION AND SOURCE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 304
INDEX 306
iii
Contents
PREFACE xi
LIST OF BOXES xv
ABOUT THE A UTHOR xvii
1. Introduction to Sociological Theory l
Creating Sociological Theory 1
Defining Sociological Theory 4
Creating Sociological Theory: A More Realistic View 5
Multicultural Social Theory 6
Overview of the Book 8
Summary 11
Suggested Readings 11
2. Classical Theories I 13
Emile Durkheim: From Mechanical to Organic Solidarity 13
Two Types of Solidarity 13
Changes in Dynamic Density 14
Collective Conscience 16
Law: Repressive and Restitutive 16
Anomie 17
Karl Marx: From Capitalism to Communism 19
Human Potential 21
Alienation 21
Capitalism 23
Communism 26
Max Weber: The Rationalization of Society 27
Social Action 27
Behavior and Action 27
Types of Action 29
vi Contents
Types of Rationality 31
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 32
Confucianism, Hinduism, and Capitalism 34
Authority Structures and Rationalization 35
Summary 41
Suggested Readings 42
3. Classical Theories II 43
Georg Simmel: The Growing Tragedy of Culture 43
Association 44
Forms and Types 44
Consciousness 45
Group Size 47
Distance and the Stranger 48
Distance and Value 50
Objective and Subjective Culture 50
Division of Labor 51
Thorstein Veblen: Increasing Control of Business over Industry 51
Business 52
Industry 52
George Herbert Mead: Social Behaviorism 55
The Act 55
Gestures 56
Significant Symbols and Language 57
The Self 58
I and Me 60
Summary 62
Suggested Readings 63
4. Contemporary Grand Theories I 64
Structural Functionalism 64
The Functional Theory of Stratification and Its Critics 65
Talcott Parsons s Structural Functionalism 68
Robert Merton s Structural Functionalism 80
Conflict Theory 85
The Work of Ralf Dahrendorf 86
Authority 87
Groups, Conflict, and Change 90
General System Theory 9] 7
The Work of Niklas Luhmann 91
Autopoietic Systems 92
Differentiation 95
Summary 100
Suggested Readings jo2
Contents vii
5. Contemporary Grand Theories II 103
Neo-Marxian Theory 103
Critical Theory and the Emergence of the Culture Industry 103
From Fordism to Post-Fordism 111
The Civilizing Process 116
Examples of the Civilizing Process 117
Explaining the Changes: Lengthening Dependency
Chains 118
A Case Study: Fox Hunting 120
The Colonization of the Lifezuorld 121
Lifeworld, System, and Colonization 121
Rationalization of System and Lifeworld 123
The Juggernaut of Modernity 124
The Juggernaut 125
Space and Time 125
Reflexivity 126
Insecurity and Risks 128
Summary 129
Suggested Readings 130
6. Contemporary Theories of Everyday Life 132
Symbolic Intervctionism 132
Dramaturgy 136
Dramaturgy 137
Impression Management 143
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis 144
Defining Ethnomethodology 144
Accounts 145
Some Examples 146
Accomplishing Gender 148
Exchange Theory 149
The Exchange Theory of George Humans 149
Basic Propositions 152
Rational Choice Theory 156
A Skeletal Model 156
Foundations of Social Theory 157
Summary 160
Suggested Readings 161
. Contemporary Integrative Theories 163
A More Integrated Exchange Theory 163
Exchange Relationships and Networks 164
Power-Dependence 166
A More Integrative Exchange Theory 167
viii Contents
Structuration Theory 167
Elements of Structuration Theory 169
Culture and Agency 172
Habitus and Field 173
Bridging Subjectivism and Objectivism 174
Habitus 175
Field 178
Summary 183
Suggested Readings 183
8. Contemporary Feminist Theories 185
by Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge
The Basic Theoretical Questions 186
Contemporary Feminist Theories 187
Gender Difference 189
Gender Inequality 191
Gender Oppression 195
Structural Oppression 200
Towards a Feminist Sociological Theory 207
Summary 213
Suggested Readings 214
9. Postmodern Grand Theories 215
The Transition from Industrial to Postindustrial Society 215
Increasing Governmentality (and Other Grand Theories) 218
Increasing Governmentality 219
Other Grand Theories 224
Postmodernity as Modernity s Coming of Age 225
Learning to Live with Ambivalence? 227
Postmodern Ethics 229
The Rise of Consumer Society, Loss of Symbolic Exchange,
and Increase in Simulations 230
From Producer to Consumer Society 231
The Loss of Symbolic Exchange and the Increase in Simulations 234
The Consumer Society and the New Means of Consumption 239
Dromology 244
Feminism and Postmodern Social Theory 247
by Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge
Summary 249
Suggested Readings 250
10. Globalization Theory 252
Major Contemporary Theorists on Globalization 254
Anthony Giddens on the Runaway World of Globalization 254
Contents ix
Ulrich Beck and the Politics of Globalization 255
Zygmunt Bauman on the Human Consequences of Globalization 257
Cultural Theory 258
Cultural Differentialism 258
Cultural Convergence 262
Cultural Hybridization 268
Economic Theory 271
Transnational Capitalism 271
Empire 274
Political Theory 277
Other Theories 281
Summary 281
Suggested Readings 282
GLOSSARY 285
PERMISSION AND SOURCE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 304
INDEX 306
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