| Description |
xii, 468 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Blackwell readers in sociology ; 10
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Micro-sociological analysis. The phenomenology of the social world / Alfred Schutz -- The social construction of reality / Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckman -- The presentation of self in everyday life / Erving Goffman -- Symbolic interactionism / Herbert Blumer -- pt. 2. Exchange and rationality. Social behavior as exchange / George C. Homans -- Exchange and power in social life / Peter M. Blau -- Social capital in the creation of human capital / James S. Coleman -- Foundations for a theory of collective decisions / James S. Coleman -- The logic of collective action / Mancur Olson -- pt. 3. Institutional analysis. Limits of steering / Niklas Luhmann -- Coercion, capital, and European states / Charles Tilly -- The iron age revisited : institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields / Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell -- pt. 4. The sociological theory of Michel Foucault. The birth and the clinic ; Truth and power ; Discipline and punish / Michel Foucault -- pt. 5. The sociological theory of Anthony Giddens. Some new rules of sociological method ; Agency, structure ; The consequences of modernity / Anthony Giddens -- The sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu. Social space and symbolic space ; Structures, Habitus, practices ; The field of cultural production, or: the economic world reversed / Pierre Bourdieu -- pt. 7. Race, gender, and difference. The conceptual practices of power / Dorothy E. Smith -- Black feminist epistemology / Patricia Hill Collins -- Black skin, white masks / Frantz Fanon -- The paradoxes of integration / Orlando Patterson -- pt. 8. The sociological theory of Jürgen Habermas. Civil society and the political public sphere ; The tasks of a critical theory of society ; Theory and practice / Jürgen Habermas -- pt. 9. Modernity and postmodernity. The social constraint towards self-constraint / Norbert Elias -- A sociological theory of postmodernity / Zygmunt Bauman -- Describing the future / Niklas Luhmann. |
| Subject |
Sociology -- Methodology.
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Sociology -- Philosophy.
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| Added Author |
Calhoun, Craig J., 1952-
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| ISBN |
063121349X cased £60.00 |
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9780631213499 cased |
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0631213503 paperback £16.99 |
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9780631213505 paperback |
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