First edition published 1998; second edition published 2008. Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-463) and index.
Contents:
Jeffrey C. Alexander / Jason L. Mast. 24. 1. Karl Marx / Bob Jessop -- After Marx: culture and politics in twentieth- and twenty-first century Marxism: Antonio Gramsci & Ernesto Laclau -- 2. Max Weber / Lawrence A. Scaff -- 3. Émile Durkheim / Edward A. Tiryakian -- 4. Georg Simmel / Patrick Watier -- 5. W.E.B. Du Bois / Reiland Rabaka -- 6. G.H. Mead / Filipe Carreira da Silva -- 7. Talcott Parsons / Robert Holton -- pt. 2 -- 8. Robert K. Merton / Piotr Sztompka -- After Merton: structural thinking in the twenty-first century: Ulrich Beck -- 9. Norbert Elias / Jason Hughes -- 10. Erving Goffman / Susie Scott -- 11. Harold Garfinkel / John Heritage -- 12. Louis Althusser / Ted Benton -- After Althusser: state theory: Nicos Poulantzas & Bob Jessup -- 13. Jürgen Habermas / William Outhwaite -- After Habermas: critical theory and recognition: Nancy Fraser & Axel Honneth -- 14. Pierre Bourdieu / Derek Robbins -- After Bourdieu: adding morals and emotions to habitus: Andrew Sayer -- 15. Michel Foucault / Lawrence Barth -- pt. 3 -- 16. Dorothy E. Smith / Karin Widerberg -- 17. Stuart Hall / Michèle Barrett -- 18. Nancy J. Chodorow / Karin A. Martin -- Before and after Chodrow: fruitful dialectics in feminist thought: Simone de Beauvoir & Carol Gilligan -- 19. Anthony Giddens / Craig Browne -- After Giddens: social and system integration: Nicos Mouzelis -- 20. Michael Mann / Ralph Schroeder -- Before Mann: the tradition of historical sociology: Barrington Moore & Theda Skocpol -- 21. Zygmunt Bauman / Tony Blackshaw -- 22. Arlie Russell Hochschild / Simon J. Williams -- 23. Bruno Latour / Steve Matthewman -- 24. Jeffrey C. Alexander / Jason L. Mast.
Summary:
An introduction to theorists who made key contributions to the discipline of sociology. This edition includes three new chapters considering the work of Michael Mann, Dorothy Smith and Zygmunt Bauman.
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