Sociological Theory

This is a comprehensive text on sociological theory that discusses classical and contemporary theory. This book covers thinkers spanning the entire history of the field from its inception to the present. This book is designed to be used at the undergraduate and graduate level. The book covers the lives and works of the major sociological theorists, including Comte, Spencer, Mead, Schutz, and Parsons with biographical sketches on each.

Politics & Social Sciences

Ritzer, George

Anthropology

Mcgraw-Hill College

This introduction to contemporary sociological theory begins with a synopsis of the formative years of sociological theory and goes on to look at modern theory, beginning with the full development of structural functionalism and culminating in a discussion of the new syntheses in sociological theory. The book provides comprehensive coverage of the work and lives of the major sociological theorists, including Comte, Spencer, Mead, Schutz and Parsons, with biogaphical sketches on each.

Contemporary Sociological Theory

Social Sciences

This is a short, inexpensive, paperback introduction to sociology for students taking their first sociology courses. The types of "beginnings" discussed include the founding of sociology, biographies of the major founders of sociology, the development of major sociological theories, and the emergence of some major sociological research methods.

Sociological Beginnings: On The Origins of Key Ideas In Sociology

McGraw=Hill

Written by one of the foremost authorities in American sociological theory, Modern Sociological Theory is a comprehensive overview of the schools of modern sociological thought. Reflecting changes in this fourth edition and paving the way for a separate text on Postmodern Social Theory, which Ritzer is now writing, the title has been changed from "Contemporary Sociological Theory" to "Modern Sociological Theory". Part 1 continues to offer two chapters devoted to the history of sociological theory. Part 2, with significant changes in terms of content and organization, devotes six chapters to the major schools of modern sociological theory. Each has been updated to reflect recent work, including theoretical syntheses. Two chapters in Part 3 address recent integrative developments, namely micro-macro and agency-structure. Part 4, which is new, provides two chapters addressing contemporary theories in modernity, structuralism, and poststructuralism, and the emergence of postmodern social theory. The book concludes with an appendix which provides a metatheoretical schema that informs the text, and highlights the latest work in sociological metatheorizing.

Modern Sociological Theory

George Ritzer's long-awaited text in Postmodern Social Theory is a readable and coherent introduction to the fundamental ideas and most important thinkers in postmodern social theory. Looking at this multidisciplinary field from a sociological perspective, Ritzer offers a modernist reading of the turbulent and often renegade world of postmodern thought, encouraging the reader to see how postmodernism offers a set of ideas that can invigorate and revitalize sociology and sociological theory.

Postmodern Social Theory

Philosophy

Contemporary Sociology

Sociology

McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions)

This work spans the history of sociological theory from its inception to the present. Divided into four parts it covers early sociological thinkers, each major school, recent integrative developments, and contemporary theories of modernity, structuralism and post-structuralism.

Written by one of the foremost authorities on sociological theory, this text gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought. The integration of key theories with biographical sketches of theorists and the requisite historical and intellectual context helps students to better understand the original works of classical and modern theorists as well as to compare and contrast the latest substantive theories.

McGraw-Hill/Higher Education

Written by one of the foremost American authorities on sociological theory, Modern Sociological Theory gives readers a comprehensive overview of the history of modern sociological thought, as well as an analysis of the most important contemporary schools and new theoretical orientations. Organized chronologically, this text begins with a synopsis of the formative years and concludes with the emergence of postmodern (and even post-post modern) social theory, integrating key theories with biographical and autobiographical sketches of the lives of theorists to place readings in their personal and historical context. The fifth edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to include a number of sections on new developments in the field, such as theories of consumption and the new means of consumption, multiculturalism, criticisms and applications of postmodernism, and post-post modernism.

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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Sociological Theory

Contemporary Sociological Theory

Sociological Beginnings: On The Origins of Key Ideas In Sociology

Modern Sociological Theory

Postmodern Social Theory

Contemporary Sociology

Modern Sociological Theory

Sociological Theory

Sociological Theory

Modern Sociological Theory