Contemporary social and sociological theory: visualizing social worlds

Description

This social theory textbook introduces undergraduates to a multitude of different theorists. Their contributions to contemporary social and sociological theory are presented around nine distinct theoretical ideas. Having a thought Symbols, meaning &​ the social self : George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) and Herbert Blumer (1900-1987) Constructing social reality : Peter Berger (1929-) and Thomas Luckmann (1927-) Organizing ordinary life : Harold Garfinkel (1917-) Performing the self : Erving Goffman (1922-1982) Emotion and interaction ritual chains : Randall Collins (1941-) Social and population structures : Peter M. Blau (1918-2002) Gender inequality : Janet Saltzman Chafetz (1942-) The replication of class : Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Global capitalism and the decline of American hegemony : Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-) Social systems and their environments : Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) Modernity and reason : Jürgen Habermas (1929-) The juggernaut of modernity : Anthony Giddens (1938-) Defining the possible and impossible : Michel Foucault (1926-1984) Language on the rocks : Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) The end of everything : Jean Baudrillard (1929-) Race matters : Cornel West (1953-) Gendered consciousness : Dorothy E. Smith (1926-) Materializing sex and queer theory : Judith Butler (1956-) On being unsettled