Frontiers of Social Theory. the New Syntheses

Contents
Preface
1. The Current Status of Sociological Theory: The New Syntheses
PART I. NEW LIFE IN SOME TRADITIONAL SOCIAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES
2. Neofunctionalism Today: Reconstructing a Theoretical Tradition
3. Conflict Theory and the Advance of Macro-Historical Sociology
4. The Decline of the Grand Narrative of Emancipatory Modernity: Crisis or Renewal in Neo-Marxian Theory?
5. Symbolic Interactionism in the Post-Blumerian Age
6. Exchange Theory: A Blueprint for Structure and Process
II. LIVELINESS OF MORE RECENT SOCIAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES
7. The World as It Happens: Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
8. The Comparative Advantages of Rational Choice Theory
9. The Uses of French Structuralisms in Sociology
10. The Postmodern Turn: Positions, Problems, and Prospects
11. Betwixt and Between: Recent Cultural Sociology in Europe and the United States
12. Feminist Sociological Theory: The Near-Future Prospects
III. OVERVIEWS OF SOCIAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
13. Micro-Macro Linkage in Sociological Theory: Applying a Metatheoretical Tool
14. The Past, Present, and Future of Theory in American Sociology
15. The History and Politics of Recent Sociological Theory
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