Overview
- Emphasizes basic theoretical questions and problems that tie the present to past theorizing, but focuses on the direction sociological theory is headed
- Focuses on theorizing and its relationship to the research process and charts a new course for sociological theory
- Articulates and synthesizes the central sociological problems theorists and researchers continue to be interested in
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research (HSSR)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Classical Questions Contemporalized
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Rethinking the Macro-Micro Link
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A Coherent Social Universe
Keywords
- Advances in Ethnomethodology
- Evolutionary Sociology
- Faces of Cultural Theory
- Future Directions of Sociological Theory
- Human Ecology
- Identity and the Self
- Macro-Micro Debate
- Meaning and Social Action
- Problems of Integration
- Social Organization
- Sociological Theory and Postmodernism
- Stratification Systems
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory
Editors: Seth Abrutyn
Series Title: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32250-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32248-3Published: 01 July 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61601-8Published: 28 June 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32250-6Published: 22 June 2016
Series ISSN: 1389-6903
Series E-ISSN: 2542-839X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 578
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology, general, Political Science