| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 565 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : welcome to sociological theory -- Karl Marx -- Emile Durkheim -- Max Weber -- Talcott Parsons and Robert Merton : Functionalism and Modernization -- Critical theory : technology, culture, and politics -- Conflict, power, and dependency in macro-societal processes -- Exchange, exchange network, and rational choice theories -- Symbolic interactionism -- Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology -- Feminist theories -- Michel Foucault : theorizing sexuality, the body, and power -- Race, racism, and the construction of racial otherness -- The social reproduction of inequality : Pierre Bourdieu's theory of class and culture -- Economic and political globalization -- Modernities, cosmopolitanism, and global consumer culture. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 4, 2014) |
| Local Note |
STJOEBOOK |
| Subject |
Sociology.
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Sociology -- History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dillon, Michele, 1960- Introduction to sociological theory Second edition. Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, 2014 9781118471920 (DLC) 2013033132 |
| ISBN |
9781118471906 (electronic bk.) |
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1118471903 (electronic bk.) |
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