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Contemporary Sociological Theory

An Integrated Multi-Level Approach

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Authors:
  1. Doyle Paul Johnson

    1. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

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  • Textbook features chapter summaries and end-of-chapter review questions

  • Focuses on the multiple levels of social interaction - micro, meso and macro

  • Approaches theory by describing social process and the theories that relate to these processes

  • Reveals the complicated ways that different dimensions of social life are interrelated and mutually influence each other

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  3. Moving from Micro to Meso to Macro Levels

    1. Symbolic Interaction: Constructing the Social World–and its Participants' Identities

      Pages 109-135

    2. Phenomenological Sociology and Ethnomethodology: The Everyday Life World of Common Sense

      Pages 137-163

    3. Social Exchange and Rational Choice at the Micro Level: Looking Out for #1

      Pages 165-193

    4. Networking and Belonging: Opportunity Structures, Rational Choice Exchanges, and the Sociology of Emotions

      Pages 195-222

    5. From Micro-Level Exchanges to Meso- and Macro-Level Structures

      Pages 223-251

    6. Meso-Level Structures: Communities and Organizations

      Pages 253-280

    7. Meso-Level Structures: Markets and Socioeconomic Classes

      Pages 281-308

    8. Integration and Social Order at the Macro Level: Parsons' Structural-Functional Perspective

      Pages 309-337

    9. Middle-Range Functionalism and Neofunctionalism

      Pages 339-366

    10. Conflict and Competition: Analytical Conflict Theories at the Macro Level

      Pages 367-395

    11. Critical Theory: Social System Requirements Versus Human Needs

      Pages 397-425
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About this book

This volume is designed as a basic text for upper level and graduate courses in contemporary sociological theory. Most sociology programs require their majors to take at least one course in sociological theory, sometimes two. A typical breakdown is between classical and contemporary theory. Theory is perhaps one of the bro- est areas of sociological inquiry and serves as a foundation or framework for more specialized study in specific substantive areas of the field. In addition, the study of sociological theory can readily be related to various aspects of other social science disciplines as well. From the very beginning sociology has been characterized by alternative theoretical perspectives. Classical theory includes the European founding figures of the dis- pline whose works were produced during the later half of the nineteenth century and the first couple of decades of the twentieth century plus early American th- rists. For most of the second half of the twentieth century, a fairly high consensus has developed among American sociologists regarding these major founders, p- ticularly with regard to the works of Durkheim and Weber in analyzing the overall society and of Simmel in analyzing social interaction processes. Since the late 1960s and early 1970s the influence of Marx has also been recognized. Recent decades have also witnessed an increased emphasis on the important contributions of several pioneering feminist perspectives in the early years of sociology.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

    Doyle Paul Johnson

About the author

D. Paul Johnson is a Professor and the former Chair of the Department of Sociology at Texas Tech University. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Contemporary Sociological Theory

  • Book Subtitle: An Integrated Multi-Level Approach

  • Authors: Doyle Paul Johnson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76522-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-76521-1Published: 23 April 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2625-8Published: 29 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-76522-8Published: 29 March 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 630

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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