Contemporary Sociological Theory

Contemporary Sociological Theory
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The new edition of the definitive undergraduate guide to contemporary sociological theory, with updated reading selections throughout The fourth edition of Contemporary Sociological Theory offers a thorough introduction to current perspectives and approaches in sociology and social science. Covering a broad range of essential topics, this comprehensive volume provides students with the foundation necessary for understanding the theoretical underpinnings of present-day debates in the diverse field. In-depth yet accessible readings address micro-sociological analysis, symbolic interactionism, network theory, phenomenology, critical theory, structuralism, feminist theory, and more. This classic text is fully revised to incorporate the most representative and up-to-date material, including new readings addressing debates on gender, power, and inequality. New editorial introductions clarify and contextualize the selected readings, while up-to-date examples highlight connections to today’s theoretical discussions. This authoritative survey of contemporary sociological theory: Presents substantial primary source texts with detailed introductions, rather than brief excerpts and basic overviews Examines the sociological theories of Foucault, Giddens, Bourdieu, and Habermas Discusses debates over modernity and postmodernity, crisis and change, and race and difference Provides historical and intellectual perspective to each selected reading in the book Includes extensive references to further readings and resources Contemporary Sociological Theory , Fourth Edition provides the depth of coverage students require for undergraduate courses in social and sociological theory as well as courses in wider social science programs such as human geography, anthropology, criminology, and urban studies. In combination with its complement  Classical Sociological Theory , Fourth Edition, Contemporary Sociological Theory remains the most complete overview of sociological theory available.

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Contemporary Sociological Theory

Contents

List of Figures

List of Table

Guide

Pages

Notes on the Editors

Acknowledgements

PART I

PART II

PART III

PART IV

PART V

PART VI

PART VII

PART VIII

PART IX

PART X

Introduction

The Classical Inheritance

Symbolic and strategic interaction

Structure, agency, and institutions

Power and Inequality

Bourdieu

Foucault

Race, Gender, and Intersectionality

Race

Gender

Intersectionality

Modernity, Crisis, and Change

Globalization

Conclusion

NOTES

Part I Symbolic Action

Introduction to Part I

Challenges of Micro-Sociological Analysis

The Development of Micro-Sociological Analysis

Legacy of Micro-Sociological Analysis

NOTES

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chapter 1 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life [1959]

Belief in the Part One is Playing

Front

Dramatic Realization

Idealization

Misrepresentation

Reality and Contrivance

NOTES

Chapter 2 Symbolic Interactionism [1969]

The Methodological Position of Symbolic Interactionism

Methodological orientation

Society as Symbolic Interaction

Chapter 3 Interaction Ritual Chains [2004]

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Ritual ingredients, processes, and outcomes

Formal rituals and natural rituals

Failed rituals, empty rituals, forced rituals

Is bodily presence necessary?

Solidarity prolonged and stored in symbols

REFERENCES

Part II. Structure and Agency

Introduction to Part II

Michael Hechter: Social Solidarity from Individual Interest

Coleman: Structures Emerge from Interdependent Action

Harrison White: Structure from (Relational) Action

Anthony Giddens and the Duality of Structure

Summary and Conclusion

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chapter 4 A Theory of Group Solidarity [1987]

The Extensiveness of Corporate Obligations

The Probability of Compliance

REFERENCES

NOTES

Chapter 5 Metatheory: Explanation in Social Science [1990]

Explanation of the Behavior of Social Systems

Points Favoring the Internal Analysis of System Behavior

The Major Problem

Max Weber and the Spirit of Capitalism

Components of the Theory

Why Use A Theory Of Purposive Action?

Why Use Maximization Of Utility?

The Macro-to-Micro and Micro-to-Macro Transitions

Interdependence of Actions

REFERENCES

Chapter 6 Catnets [1966]

Net

Net Systems

Limited systems

Cats

Category Systems. Ad hoc

Generic

Cross-tabulation

Contextual

Initial cat system

Neighborhood systems

Frame

Catnets

Chapter 7 Some New Rules of Sociological Method [1976]

A

B

C

D

Part III. Institutions

Introduction to Part III

NOTE

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chapter 8 Economic Embeddedness [1985]

Introduction: The Problem of Embeddedness

Over- and Undersocialized Conceptions of Human Action in Sociology and Economics

Embeddedness, Trust, and Malfeasance in Economic Life

REFERENCES

Chapter 9 The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields [1983]

Organizational Theory and Organizational Diversity

Three mechanisms of institutional isomorphic change

Coercive isomorphism

Mimetic processes

Normative pressures

Predictors of Isomorphic Change

REFERENCES

NOTES

Part IV Power and Inequality

Introduction to Part IV

Explaining Power and Inequality in Sociological Theory

Contemporary Theories of Power and Inequality

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chapter 10 The Power Elite [1956]

The Higher Circles

1

2

3

4

Chapter 11 Durable Inequality [1998]

Roots of Categorical Inequality

Categorical Pairs and the Mechanisms of Inequality

Exploitation

Opportunity Hoarding

Emulation

Adaptation

Boundaries of Inequality

Chapter 12 Power: A Radical View [2005]

The One-Dimensional View

The Two-Dimensional View

The Three-Dimensional View

The Underlying Concept of Power

Power and Interests

Conclusion

REFERENCES

Chapter 13 Societies as Organized Power Networks [1986]

Ultimate primacy

Human nature and social power

Organizational power. Collective and distributive power

Current stratification theory

The four sources and organizations of power

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTES

Part V The Sociological Theory of Michel Foucault

Introduction to Part V

Foucault’s Life and Intellectual Context

Foucault’s Work

Foucault’s Legacy

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chapter 14 The History of Sexuality [1976]

NOTES

Chapter 15 Discipline and Punish* [1975]

REFERENCES

Part VI. The Sociological Theory of Pierre Bourdieu

Introduction to Part VI

Structure and Action: False Dichotomies

Habitus and Misrecognition

Fields and Capital

Structure and Practice in Social Life

NOTES

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chapter 16 Social Space and Symbolic Space [1991]

The Real is Relational

The Logic of Classes

Chapter 17 Structures, Habitus, Practices* [1980]

NOTES

Chapter 18 The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed* [1983]

Preliminaries

The Field of Cultural Production and the Field of Power

The struggle for the dominant principle of hierarchization

The effect of the homologies

Positions and Dispositions. The meeting of two histories

The habitus and the possibles

NOTES

REFERENCES

Chapter 19 Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field [1994]

A Radical Doubt

The Genesis of the State: A Process of Concentration

Minds of State

The Monopolization of Monopoly and the State Nobility

NOTES

Part VII. Race, Gender, and Intersectionality

Introduction to Part VII

Theorizing Difference

Identity and Difference

Race, Gender, and Sociological Theory

NOTES

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chapter 20 The Theory of Racial Formation [2015]

Race as a Master Category

Racialization

Racial Projects

Racism

REFERENCES

Chapter 21 Intellectual Schools and the Atlanta School [2015]

Du Bois’s School and Lessons from the Sociology of Knowledge

Du Bois’s Academic World and Bourdieu’s Science of Science

Liberation Capital and Insurgent Intellectual Networks

NOTES

Chapter 22 The Paradoxes of Integration [1997]

The Paradoxes of Ideology and Interpretation. The paradox of antiracist racism

The paradox of the “one-drop” rule

The paradox of liberal racialization in academic and public discourse

Chapter 23 The Conceptual Practices of Power [1990]

Relations of Ruling and Objectified Knowledge

Women’s Exclusion from the Governing Conceptual Mode

Knowing a Society from Within: A Woman’s Perspective

Sociology as Structuring Relations between Subject and Object

A Bifurcation of Consciousness

Chapter 24 Black Feminist Epistemology [1990]

Eurocentric Knowledge Validation Processes and US Power Relations

Black Women as Agents of Knowledge

Toward Truth

REFERENCES

Chapter 25 Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics [1989]

The Antidiscrimination Framework. The Significance of Doctrinal Treatment of Intersectionality

NOTES

Chapter 26 Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions, and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities [2010]

Theorizing Intersectionality

Inclusion-Centered Interpretations: Intersecting Identities

Process-Centered Models: Interaction Effects and Multilevel Analysis

Systemic Intersectionality: Institutional Interpenetration

Conclusion

REFERENCES

Chapter 27 The Politics of Erased Migrations: Expanding a Relational, Intersectional Sociology of Latinx Gender and Migration [2018]

1 On Intersectionality and Relational Approaches

3.1 Heteronormativity in Gender and Latinx Migration Research

4 Transcending Erasures: Toward a Sociology of Latinx Gender and Migration

5 Conclusion

NOTES

REFERENCES

Part VIII The Sociological Theory of Jürgen Habermas

Introduction to Part VIII

Life and Work

Analysis of Politics and Society

Habermas’s Continuing Influence

SUGGESTED READINGS

Chapter 28 Modernity: An Unfinished Project [1980]

The Old and the New

Cultural Modernity and Social Modernization

The Project of Enlightenment

Three Conservatisms

NOTES

Chapter 29 The Rationalization of the Lifeworld [1981]

1 The Concept of the Lifeworld and the Hermeneutic Idealism of Interpretive Sociology

NOTES

Chapter 30 Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere [1992]

1 Sociological Theories of Democracy

2

3

4

5

6

Part IX. Modernity

Introduction to Part IX

Postmodernism and the Social Landscape

Modernity and Postmodernity

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chapter 31 The Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint [1937]

Chapter 32 We Have Never Been Modern [1991]

The Impossible Modernization

Final Examinations

Humanism Redistributed

The Nonmodern Constitution

The Parliament of Things

Chapter 33 The Civil Sphere [2006]

Introduction

Discourses: Liberty and Repression

Pure and Impure in Civil Discourse

The Binary Structures of Motives

The Binary Structures of Relationships

The Binary Structures of Institutions

Civil Narratives of Good and Evil

The Conflict over Representation

Chapter 34 Addressing Recognition Gaps: Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality [2018]

From Distribution to Recognition

Neoliberalism and Growing Recognition Gaps

Experiences and Responses to the Recognition Gap: Claiming Cultural Membership

Destigmatization Processes: How do Group Boundaries Get Redrawn?

Conclusions

REFERENCES

Part X. Crisis and Change

Introduction to Part X

Crises of Capitalist Development

Global Capitalism and the State

Does Capitalism Have a Future?

Social Change in a Globalizing Society

Facing a Future of Crisis and Change

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chapter 35 The Modern World-System in Crisis [2004]

Bifurcation,Chaos and Choices

Chapter 36 Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A Transnational Social Field Perspective on Society [2004]

Building to a Transnational Social Field Theory of Society

Power

How Class, Race, and Gender are Mutually Constituted within Transnational Social Fields

The Nation-State: The Political Limits and Extensions of Transnational Social Fields

Membership and Citizenship

Expanding the Conversation

REFERENCES

Chapter 37 Nationalism [1997]

Introduction

Kinship, Descent, Ethnicity and Nationality

Individualism and Categorical Identities

State, Nation and Legitimacy

The Local Amid The Global

Conclusion

Chapter 38 The End May Be Nigh, But For Whom? [2013]

Introduction

Systems and Cycles

American Hegemony and Its Discontents

The Exhaustion of Capitalist Markets?

The End of the World?

Conclusion: The End May or May Not Be Nigh

Index

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Another widely influential contributor to contemporary sociological theory was Michel Foucault (also excerpted here). He was a classmate and friend of Bourdieu’s, and they shared both an enduring focus on unequal power and the perspective sometimes called “poststructuralism.” The label is potentially misleading for both produced classic works of structuralist analysis. But both also sought to move beyond more or less static approaches, integrating attention to enduring patterns in social and cultural structure with a focus on change and the dynamics of individual action.

Foucault focused on the relationship of power to knowledge, on the relationship of both power and transformations of knowledge to the constitution of modern individuals, and on the development of new techniques of governance and administration – what he called governmentality – that work through positive means more than negative applications of force.

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