Sociological Theory, 6/e

A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years

Chapter 6 Chapter Outline

Early American Sociological Theory
1. Politics
2. Social Change and Intellectual Currents
3. The Chicago School
4. Biographical Sketch: Thorstein Veblen
5. Biographical Sketch: Robert Park
Women in Early Sociology
W.E.B. Du Bois and Race Theory
1. Biographical Sketch: W.E.B. Du Bois
Sociological Theory to Mid-Century
1. The Rise of Harvard, the Ivy League, and Structural Functionalism
2. The Chicago School in Decline
3. Developments in Marxian Theory
4. Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge
Sociological Theory from Mid-Century
1. Structural Functionalism: Peak and Decline
2. Radical Sociology in America: C. Wright Mills
3. Biographical Sketch: C. Wright Mills
  1. The Development of Conflict Theory
4. The Birth of Exchange Theory
5. Dramaturgical Analysis: The Work of Erving Goffman
6. The Development of Sociologies of Everyday Life
7. The Rise and Fall (?) of Marxian Sociology
8. The Challenge of Feminist Theory
9. Structuralism and Poststructuralism
Recent Developments in Sociological Theory
1. Micro-Macro Integration
2. Agency-Structure Integration
3. Theoretical Syntheses
Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity
1. The Defenders of Modernity
2. The Proponents of Postmodernity
Theories to Watch in the Early Twenty-First Century
1. Multicultural Social Theory
2. Postmodern and Post-Postmodern Social Theories
3. Theories of Consumption
4. Others
Summary

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