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This book integrates new and emerging aspects of sociological theory into a detailed treatment of theories and theorists, providing students with a framework for organizing the many types of sociological theory. In this edition, it is particularly concerned with outlining the changes that have taken place within sociological theory since the first edition of this book was published in the late 1960s. The book is split into seven sections that identify the paradigms of sociological theory: functionalism, evolutionary, conflict, exchange, interactions, structural, and critical. The text offers an in-depth analysis of each theory, and it reflects their emerging, maturing, and continuing traditions. In addition, the book covers the work of key modern figures in each of the paradigms, as well as their founders.
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Over the course of previous editions during some 20 years, the book grew until it bifurcated into double columns and was unwieldy to hold. Turner (U. of California-Riverside) has reduced this edition by 14 chapters and thinned the reference material. The culled material has been recycled onto an associated Web site. He explores the structure of theory in sociology, especially its assumptions and testable propositions, if any. His treatment is more detailed than in most other textbooks. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780256015409
  • Publisher: Dorsey Press, The
  • Publication date: 1/28/1974
  • Pages: 351

Meet the Author

Jonathan Turner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UC, Riverside. He has authored dozen of articles and over thirty books, including THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY, a companion volume to this book.

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Table of Contents

1. Sociological Theory, PART ONE: FUNCTIONAL THEORIZING. 2. The Emerging Tradition: The Rise of Functionalist Theory. 3. The Maturing Tradition I: Robert K. Merton's Empirical Approach. 4. The Maturing Tradition II: Talcott Parson's Analytical Approach. 5. The Continuing Tradition I: The Neofunctionalism of Jeffery C. Alexander. 6. The Continuing Tradition II: The Systems Functionalism of Niklas Luhmann. PART TWO: EVOLUTIONARY THEORIZING. 7. The Emerging Tradition: The Rise of Evolutionary Theorizing. 8. The Maturing Tradition: Ecological and Biological Theorizing. 9. The Continuing Tradition I: Ecological Theories. 10. The Continuing Tradition II: New Evolutionary Theories. PART THREE: CONFLICT THEORIZING, 11 The Emerging Tradition: The Rise of Conflict Theorizing. 12 The Maturing Tradition I: Ralf Dahrendorf's Dialectical Theory. 13. The Maturing Tradition II: Lewis Coser's Conflict Functionalism. 14. The Maturing Tradition III: Jonathan Turner's Synthetic Conflict Theory. 15. The Continuing Tradition I: Neo Weberian Theories: Randall Collins' Analytical Approach. 16. The Continuing Tradition II: Conflict Theories in Historical-Comparative Sociology. 17. The Continuing Tradition III: Neo-Marxian Theories. 18. The Continuing Tradition IV: Theories of Gender Inequality and Conflict. PART FOUR: EXCHANGE THEORIZING. 19. The Emerging Tradition: The Rise of Exchange Theorizing. 20. The Maturing Tradition I: George C. Homans' Behavioristic Approach. 21. The Maturing Tradition II: Peter M. Blau's Dialectical Approach. 22. The Maturing Tradition III: Richard M. Emerson's Exchange NetworkApproach. 23. The Maturing Tradition IV: The Introduction of Economic and Game-Theoretic Models in Exchange Theory. 24. The Continuing Tradition I: Rational Choice Theories. 25. The Continuing Tradition II: Network Exchange Theories. PART FIVE: INTERACTIONIST THEORIZING. 26. The Emerging Tradition: The Rise of interactionists and Phenomenological Theorizing. 27. The Maturing Tradition I: The Codification of Symbolic Interactionism. 28. The Maturing Tradition II: Self and Identity Theories. 29. The Maturing Tradition III: Role Theories: Ralph H. Turner's Synthetic Approach. 30. The Maturing Tradition IV: Erving Goffman's Dramaturgical Approach. 31. The Maturing Tradition V: The Challenge of Ethnomethodology. 32. The Continuing Tradition I: Theories of Emotion in Social Interaction. 33. The Continuing Tradition II: Expectation States Theory. PART SIX: STRUCTURALIST THEORIZING. 34. The Emerging Tradition: The Rise of Structuralist Theorizing. 35. The Maturing Tradition: French, British, and American Variations. 36. The Continuing Tradition I: Anthony Giddens' Structuration Theory. 37. The Continuing Tradition II: Cultural Theories. 38. The Maturing Tradition III: Network Analysis. 39. The Maturing Tradition IV: Peter M. Blau's Macrostructural Theory. PART SEVEN: CRITICAL THEORIZING. 40. The Emerging Tradition: The Rise of the Critical Analysis of Modernity. 41. The Maturing Critical Tradition: The Frankfurt School and the Cultural Turn. 42. The Continuing Tradition I: Jurgen Habermas' Frankfurt-School Project. 43. The Continuing Tradition II: The Feminist Critique of Sociological Theory: Gender, Politics, and Patriarchy. 44. The Continuing Tradition III: Theories of Postmodernism.
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