(eBook PDF) Contemporary Social and Sociological Theory: Visualizing Social Worlds 3rd Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 141299277X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1412992770
- Author: Kenneth Allan
In the Third Edition of Ken Allan′s highly-praised Contemporary Social and Sociological Theory book, sociological theories and theorists are explored using a straightforward approach and conversational, jargon-free language. Filled with examples drawn from everyday life, this edition highlights diversity in contemporary society, exploring theories of race, gender, and sexuality that address some of today′s most important social concerns. Through this textbook students will learn to think theoretically and apply to their own lives.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: In the Beginning Was Modernity
Chapter 2: Defining Moments in Twentieth-Century Theory – Talcott Parsons and the Frankfurt School
Chapter 3: The Language of the Self – Herbert Blumer
Chapter 4: Imaging the Self – Erving Goffman
Chapter 5: Achieving Social Order – Harold Garfinkel
Chapter 6: Social Exchanges – George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins
Chapter 7: Structures of Racial and Gender Inequality – William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz
Chapter 8: Structuring Class – Pierre Bourdieu
Chapter 9: Structures of Power – Michel Foucault
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