This comprehensive collection of contemporary sociological theory is the definitive guide to current perspectives and approaches in the field, examining key topics and debates in the field.
- Collects the most representative material available on topics such as symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, structuralism, network theory, critical theory, feminist theory, and the debates over modernity and postmodernity
- Includes examinations of the work of Foucault, Giddens, and Bourdieu
- A new section for this edition opens up the debate on power and inequality
- Thematically organized
Table of Contents:
Notes on the Editors xi
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction 1
Part I Micro-Sociological Analysis 25
Introduction to Part I 27
1 The Phenomenology of the Social World (from the Phenomenology of the Social World) 35
Alfred Schutz
2 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (from the Presentation of Self in Everyday Life) 46
Erving Goffman
3 Symbolic Interactionism (from Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method) 62
Herbert Blumer
4 “Interaction Ritual Chains” (from Interaction Ritual Chains) 75
Randall Collins
Part II Exchange and Rationality 91
Introduction to Part II 93
5 Social Behavior as Exchange (from American Journal of Sociology) 100
George C. Homans
6 Exchange and Power in Social Life (from Exchange and Power in Social Life) 112
Peter M. Blau
7 The Logic of Collective Action (from the Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups) 124
Mancur Olson
8 A Theory of Group Solidarity (from Principles of Group Solidarity) 129
Michael Hechter
9 Cooperation without Law or Trust (from Cooperation without Trust?) 142
Karen S. Cook, Russell Hardin, and Margaret Levi
Part III Institutions and Networks 157
Introduction to Part III 159
10 Economic Embeddedness (from “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness”) 165
Mark Granovetter
11 The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields (from “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields”) 175
Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell
12 Catnets (from Notes on the Constituents of Social Structure) 193
Harrison White
13 Structural Holes (from Stuctural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition) 204
Ronald S. Burt
Part IV Power and Inequality 221
Introduction to Part IV 223
14 The Power Elite (from The Power Elite) 229
C. Wright Mills
15 On Hegemony (from Selections From the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci) 237
Antonio Gramsci
16 Coercion, Capital, and European States (from Coercion, Capital and European States, AD 990–1990) 251
Charles Tilly
17 Power: A Radical View (from Power: A Radical View) 266
Steven Lukes
18 State, Society and Modern History (from the Nation-State and Violence Volume Two of A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism) 277
Anthony Giddens
Part V The Sociological Theory of Michel Foucault 287
Introduction to Part V 289
19 The History of Sexuality (from the History of Sexuality, vol. I: An Introduction) 295
Michel Foucault
20 Truth and Power (from Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977) 305
Michel Foucault
21 Discipline and Punish (from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison) 314
Michel Foucault
Part VI The Sociological Theory of Pierre Bourdieu 323
Introduction to Part VI 325
22 Social Space and Symbolic Space (from “Social Space and Symbolic Space: Introduction to a Japanese Reading of Distinction”) 335
Pierre Bourdieu
23 Structures, Habitus, Practices (from the Logic of Practice) 345
Pierre Bourdieu
24 The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed (from Poetics) 359
Pierre Bourdieu
25 Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field (from Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field) 375
Pierre Bourdieu
Part VII Race, Gender, Difference 387
Introduction to Part VII 389
26 The Conceptual Practices of Power (from the Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge) 398
Dorothy E. Smith
27 Black Feminist Epistemology (from Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment) 407
Patricia Hill Collins
28 Black Skin, White Masks (from Black Skin, White Masks) 417
Frantz Fanon
29 The Paradoxes of Integration (from the Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America’s “Racial” Crisis) 426
Orlando Patterson
Part VIII Sociological Theory of Jürgen Habermas 435
Introduction to Part VIII 437
30 Modernity: An Unfinished Project (from Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity) 444
Jürgen Habermas
31 The Rationalization of the Lifeworld (from the Theory of Communicative Action Volume 2: Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason) 451
Jürgen Habermas
32 Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere (from Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy) 469
Jürgen Habermas
Part IX Modernity 491
Introduction to Part IX 493
33 The Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint (from the Civilizing Process: The History of Manners and State Formation and Civilization) 499
Norbert Elias
34 Modernity and the Holocaust (from Modernity and the Holocaust) 510
Zygmunt Bauman
35 The Consequences of Modernity (from the Consequences of Modernity) 531
Anthony Giddens
36 We Have Never Been Modern (from We Have Never Been Modern) 546
Bruno Latour
Part X Crisis and Change 561
Introduction to Part X 563
37 Systemic and Antisystemic Crises (from Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century) 569
Giovanni Arrighi
38 Reconfiguring Territory, Authority, and Rights (from Territory. Authority. Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages) 579
Saskia Sassen
39 The Modern World-System in Crisis (from World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction) 587
Immanuel Wallerstein
Index 000
About the Author :
Craig Calhoun is University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University, and President of the Social Science Research Council.
Joseph Gerteis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
James Moody is the Robert O. Keohane Professor of Sociology, Duke University, North Carolina.
Steven Pfaff is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington.
Indermohan Virk is Lecturer in Sociology and Executive Director of the Patten Foundation at Indiana University, Bloomington.
