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Test Bank for Modern Sociological Theory 8th Edition Ritzer
Test Bank for Modern Sociological Theory 8th Edition By George Ritzer, Jeffrey Stepnisky, ISBN: 9781506325620
Table of Contents
PART I Introduction to Sociological Theory
CHAPTER 1 A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early Years
Introduction
Social Forces in the Development of Sociological Theory
Intellectual Forces and The Rise of Sociological Theory
The Development of French Sociology
The Development of German Sociology
The Origins of British Sociology
The Key Figure in Early Italian Sociology
Turn-of-the-Century Developments in European Marxism
CHAPTER 2 A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years
Early American Sociological Theory
Sociological Theory to Midcentury
Sociological Theory From Midcentury
Late-Twentieth-Century Developments in Sociological Theory
Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity
Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century
PART II Modern Sociological Theory: The Major Schools
CHAPTER 3 Structural Functionalism, Neofunctionalism, and Conflict Theory
Structural Functionalism
Systems Theory
Conflict Theory
CHAPTER 4 Varieties of Neo-Marxian Theory
Economic Determinism
Hegelian Marxism
Critical Theory
Neo-Marxian Economic Sociology
Historically Oriented Marxism
Neo-Marxian Spatial Analysis
Post-Marxist Theory
CHAPTER 5 Symbolic Interactionism
The Major Historical Roots
The Ideas of George Herbert Mead
Symbolic Interactionism: The Basic Principles
The Self and the Work of Erving Goffman
The Sociology of Emotions
Criticisms
The Future of Symbolic Interactionism
CHAPTER 6 Ethnomethodology
Defining Ethnomethodology
The Diversification Of Ethnomethodology
Some Early Examples
Conversation Analysis
Studies of Institutions
Criticisms of Traditional Sociology
Stresses and Strains in Ethnomethodology
Synthesis and Integration
CHAPTER 7 Exchange, Network, and Rational Choice Theories
Exchange Theory
Network Theory
Network Exchange Theory
Rational Choice Theory
CHAPTER 8 Modern Feminist Theory
Feminism’s Basic Questions
Historical Framing: Feminism, Sociology, and Gender
Varieties of Contemporary Feminist Theory
A Feminist Sociological Theory
CHAPTER 9 Micro-Macro and Agency-Structure Integration
Micro-Macro Integration
Agency-Structure Integration
Agency-Structure and Micro-Macro Linkages: Fundamental Differences
PART III From Modern to Postmodern Social Theory (and Beyond)
CHAPTER 10 Contemporary Theories of Modernity
Classical Theorists on Modernity
The Juggernaut of Modernity
The Risk Society
The Holocaust and Liquid Modernity
Modernity’s Unfinished Project
Self, Society, and Religion
Informationalism and the Network Society
CHAPTER 11 Theories of Race and Colonialism
Fanon and the Colonial Subject
Postcolonial Theory
Critical Theories of Race and Racism
Racial Formation
A Systematic Theory of Race
Southern Theory and Indigenous Resurgence
CHAPTER 12 Globalization Theory
Major Contemporary Theorists on Globalization
Zygmunt Bauman on the Human Consequences of Globalization
Economic Theory
Political Theory
Neoliberalism
Other Theories
CHAPTER 13 Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodern Social Theory
Structuralism
Poststructuralism
Postmodern Social Theory
Criticisms and Post-Postmodern Social Theory
CHAPTER 14 Social Theory the Twenty-first century
Queer Theory
Actor-Network Theory, Posthumanism, and Postsociality
Affect Theory
Prosumption Theory
References
Credits
Name Index
Subject Index
