Full Description
Written by award-winning scholar, Jonathan Turner, Theoretical Sociology: 1830 to the Present is a monumental book that offers in-depth and comprehensive coverage of both the classical and modern traditions in sociological theory.
The text is dived into three key parts: Part 1 provides detailed analyses of the theories of the classical tradition, including the works of August Comte, Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Emile Durkheim, and George Herbert Mead; Part 2 examines all of the principle theoretical traditions in sociology during the modern era, including the functional, general systems, ecological, evolutionary, conflict, exchange, symbolic interactionist, role and status, dramaturgical, phenomenological, structuralist, cultural, postmodern, European-critical, and American-style critical theories; Part 3 reviews the state of sociological theory today, including scientific elements of theory and how to overcome roadblocks that have prevented sociological theories from realizing their full explanatory power.
Contents
Theoretical Sociology
The Classical Period, 1830-1935
August Comte and The Emergence of Sociology
Herbert Spencer
Karl Marx
The Max Weber
Georg Simmel
Emile Durkheim
George Herbert Mead
The Classical Roots of Contemporary Theorizing
The Modern Era
Functional Theorizing
General Systems Theorizing
Ecological Theorizing
Evolutionary Theorizing
Conflict Theorizing
Exchange Theorizing
Symbolic Interactionist Theorizing
Role and Status Theorizing
Dramaturgical Theorizing
Phenomenological and Ethnomethodological Theorizing
Structuralist Theorizing (include structuration theory, network theory)
Cultural Theorizing
Postmodern Theorizing
European Critical Theorizing
American-style Critical Theorizing
The State of Sociological Theory
Elements of Scientific Theorizing
Overcoming Roadblocks to Cumulative
Explanatory Theory in Sociology
