Contemporary sociological thinkers and theories [electronic resource] / Sandro Segre.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the major theoretical perspectives in contemporary sociology, covering schools of thought or intellectual movements within the discipline, as well as the work of individual scholars. The author provides not only a rigorous exposition of each theory, but a...
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[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- The neofunctionalism of Jeffrey Alexander
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Ethnomethodology
- Exchange theory
- Michel Foucault
- Anthony Giddens
- Erving Goffman
- Jürgen Habermas
- Niklas Luhmann
- Robert K. Merton
- Network and social capital theory
- Talcott Parsons
- Rational choice theory
- The phenomenological perspective of Alfred Schutz
- Structuralism in sociology and other social sciences
- Symbolic interactionism.