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Twenty lectures : sociological theory since World War II
Title
Twenty lectures : sociological theory since World War II / Jeffrey C. Alexander.
ISBN
0231062109
9780231062107
0231062117
9780231062114
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, 1987.
Physical Description
x, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Gray Social Thought 2063: Dust jacket. Presentation inscription from Jeffrey Alexander to Brad dated 13 May 2003. From the library of Bradford H. Gray.
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20 lectures
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 08, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
lect. 1. What is theory?
lect. 2. Parson's first synthesis
lect. 3. Structural-functionalism
lect. 4. Structural-functionalism in its middle phase
lect. 5. The theory of successful modernity
lect. 6. Parson's later theory
lect. 7. The revolt against the Parsonian synthesis
lect. 8. Conflict theory (1): John Rex's strategy
lect. 9. Conflict theory (2): Rex and the problem of coercion
lect. 10. Exchange theory (1): George Homans' insights
lect. 11. Exchange theory (2): Homans and the individualist dilemma
lect. 12. Symbolic interactionism (1): Pragmatism and the legacy of George Herbert Mead
lect. 13. Symbolic interactionism (2): individualism and the work of Blumer and Goffman
lect. 14. Ethnomethodology (1): the legacy of Edmund Husserl
lect. 15. Ethnomethodology (2): Harold Garfinkel's rebellion against norms
lect. 16. Cultural sociology (1): the hermeneutic challenge
lect. 17. Cultural sociology (2): Clifford Geertz's rebellion against determinism
lect. 18. Marxism (1): the legacy and the revival
lect. 19. Marxism (2): the critical theory of Herbert Marcuse
lect. 20. Sociological theory today.
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Bradford H. Gray Collection in the History of Social Thought (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
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