Twenty Lectures: Sociological Theory Since World War II

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Contents......Page 6
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 8
1. What is Theory?......Page 12
2. Parsons\' First Synthesis......Page 33
3. Structural-Functionalism......Page 47
4. Structural-Functionalism in Its MiddlePhase......Page 63
5. The Theory of Successful Modernity......Page 84
6. Parsons\' Later Theory......Page 100
7. The Revolt Against the Parsonian Synthesis......Page 122
8. Conflict Theory (1): John Rex\'s Strategy......Page 138
9. Conflict Theory (2): Rex and the Problem of Coercion......Page 151
10. Exchange Theory (1): George Homans\' Insights......Page 167
11. Exchange Theory (2): Homans and the Individualist Dilemma......Page 183
12. Symbolic Interactionism (1): Pragmatism and the Legacy of George Herbert Mead......Page 206
13. Symbolic lnteractionism (2): Individualism and the Work of Blumer and Goffman......Page 226
14. Ethnomethodology (1): The Legacy of Edmund Husserl......Page 249
15. Ethnomethodology (2): Harold Garfinkel\'s Rebellion against Norms......Page 268
16. Cultural Sociology (1): The Hermeneutic Challenge......Page 292
17. Cultural Sociology (2): Clifford Geertz\'s Rebellion Against Determinism......Page 313
18. Marxism (1): The Legacy and the Revival......Page 341
19. Marxism (2): The Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse......Page 360
20. Sociological Theory Today......Page 385
Index......Page 392