Undergraduate students of social and sociological theory.
A new edition of this popular text/reader. Appelrouth and Edles introduce students to the major social theorists from the 19th century founders through to the present day, including excerpts from their original works alongside a thorough framework for understanding them.
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List of Illustrations and Photos List of Figures and Tables About the Authors Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Part I: Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory Chapter 2: Karl Marx (1818-1883) Chapter 3: Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) Chapter 4: Max Weber (1864-1920) Part II: Classical Sociological Theory: Expanding the Foundation Chapter 5: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) Chapter 6: Georg Simmel (1858-1918) Chapter 7: W.E.B Du Bois (1868-1963) Chapter 8: George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) Part III: Twentieth-Century Sociological Traditions Chapter 9: Structural Functionalism Talcott C. Parsons Robert K. Merton Chapter 10: Critical Theory Max Horkheimer Theodor Adorno Herbert Marcuse Jurgen Habermas Patricia Hill Collins Chapter 11: Exchange and Rational Choice Theories George C. Homans Peter M. Blau James S. Coleman Chapter 12: Symbolic Interactionism and Dramaturgy Erving Goffman Arlie Russell Hochschild Chapter 13: Phenomenology Alfred Schutz Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann Dorothy E. Smith Chapter 14: Poststructuralism Michel Foucault Pierre Bourdieu Edward Said Chapter 15: Postmodernism Jean Baudrillard Jean-Francois Lyotard Judith Butler Chapter 16: The Global Society Immanuel Wallerstein George Ritzer Anthony Giddens Glossary and Terminology References Index
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ISBN
9781452203621
Publisert
2015-12-31
Utgave
3. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications Inc
Vekt
1540 gr
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
203 mm
Aldersnivå
05, U
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
896

Biographical note

Scott Appelrouth (PhD, New York University, 2000) is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Northridge. His interests include sociological theory, cultural sociology, and social movements. He has taught classical and contemporary theory at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and has published several articles in research- and teaching-oriented journals on social movements, theory, and the controversies over jazz during the 1920s and rap during the 1980s. His current research focuses on political discourse in American party platforms. Laura Desfor Edles (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1990) is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Northridge. She is the author of Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain: The Transition to Democracy after Franco (1998) and Cultural Sociology in Practice (2002), as well as various articles on culture, theory, race/ethnicity, and social movements.