 | Chapter Outline
WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY?
The Sociological Imagination
Sociology and the Social Sciences
Sociology and Common Sense |
| | | WHAT IS SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY?
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| | | THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
Early Thinkers
Émile Durkheim
Max Weber
Karl Marx
Modern Developments |
| | | MAJOR THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Functionalist Perspective
Conflict Perspective
Interactionist Perspective
The Sociological Approach
Research in Action: Looking at Sports from Three Theoretical Perspectives |
| | | DEVELOPING A SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
Theory in Practice
Research in Action
The Significance of Social Inequality
Speaking across Race, Gender, and National Boundaries
Sociology in the Global Community: Women in Public Places Worldwide
Social Policy throughout the World |
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