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Title:

Frontiers of social theory : the new syntheses / George Ritzer, editor.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1990

Description:

viii, 434 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Sociology--Congresses.--Congresses.
Sociology--United States--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Ritzer, George.
University of Maryland (System). Graduate School.
University of Maryland, College Park. College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
University of Maryland, College Park. Dept. of Sociology.

Notes:

Based on a conference held at the University of Maryland, College Park, Md., March 11, 1988; sponsored by the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

(cont.) The comparative advantages of rational choice theory / Debra Friedman and Michael Hechter -- The uses of French structuralisms in sociology / Charles C. Lemert -- The postmodern turn / Douglas Kellner -- Betwixt and between / Michele Lamont and Robert Wuthnow -- Feminist sociological theory / Patricia M. Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley -- Micro-macro linkage in sociological theory / George Ritzer -- The past, present, and future of theory in American sociology / Jonathan H. Turner -- The history and politics of recent sociological theory / Norbert Wiley.
The current status of sociological theory / George Ritzer -- Neofunctionalism today / Jeffrey C. Alexander and Paul Colomy -- Conflict theory and the advance of macro-historical sociology / Randall Collins -- The decline of the grand narrative of emancipatory modernity / Robert J. Antonio -- Symbolic interactionism in the post-Blumerian age / Gary Alan Fine -- Exchange theory / Karen S. Cook, Jodi O'Brien, and Peter Kollock -- The world as it happens / Deirdre Boden.

ISBN:

9780231070782 paper)
0231070780 paper)

LCCN:

90001407

Locations:

O4AX446 -- Chadwick Library

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)