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.