Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Abrutyn, Seth (Editor)
Summary:XVIII, 578 p. 16 illus.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32250-6
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Seth Abrutyn
  • Part 1. Classical Problems Contemporalized
  • Chapter 2. Integrating and Disintegrating Dynamics in Human Societies; Jonathan H. Turner
  • Chapter 3. Power in Organizational Society: Macro, Meso and Micro; Yingyao Wang and Simone Polillo
  • Chapter 4. Action in Society: Reflexively Conceptualizing Activities; Andreas Glaeser
  • Chapter 5. Interactionism: Meaning and Self as Process; Iddo Tavory
  • Chapter 6. Cultural Theory; Omar Lizardo
  • Part II. Rethinking the Macro-Micro Link
  • Chapter 7. The Macro and Meso Basis of the Micro Social Order; Jonathan H. Turner
  • Chapter 8. The Problem of Social Order in Nested Group Structures; Edward J. Lawler, Shane R. Thye and Jeongkoo Yoon
  • Chapter 9. Social Networks and Relational Sociology; Nick Crossley
  • Chapter 10. Varieties of Sociological Field Theory; Daniel N. Kluttz and Neil Fligstein
  • Part III. A Coherent Social Universe
  • Chapter 11. Institutional Spheres: The Macro-structure and Culture of SocialLife; Seth Abrutyn
  • Chapter 12. Stratification; Katja M. Guenther, Matthew C. Mahutga and Panu Suppatkul
  • Chapter 13. The Concept of Community as Theoretical Ground: Contention and Compatibility Across Levels of Analysis and standpoints of Social Processes; Michael D. Irwin
  • Chapter 14. Organizations as Sites and Drivers of Social Action; Walter W. Powell and Christof Brandtner
  • Chapter 15. Small Groups: Reflections of And Building Blocks for Social Structure: Stephen Benard and Trenton D. Mize
  • Chapter 16. The Thories of Status Characteristics and Expectation States; Murray Webster, Jr. and Lisa Slattery Walker
  • Chapter 17. The Self; Alicia D. Cast and Jan E. Stets
  • Part IV. Constraints on Experience
  • Chapter 18. Microsociologies: Social Exchange, Trust, Justice and Legitimacy; Michael J. Carter
  • Chapter 19. Ethnomethodology and Social Phenomenology; Jason Turowetz, Mathhew M. Hollander and Douglas W. Maynard
  • Chapter 20. Theory in Sociology of Emotions; Emi A. Weed and LynnSmith-Lovin
  • Chapter 21. Sociology as the Study of Morality; Kevin McCaffree
  • Chapter 22. Forgetting to Remember: The Present Neglect abd Future Prospects of Collective Memory in Sociology Theory; Christina Simko
  • Chapter 23. Intersectionality; Zandria Felice Robinson
  • Part V. Modes of Change
  • Chapter 24. Social Evolution; Richard Machalek and Michael W. Martin
  • Chapter 25. Reimagining Collective Behavior; Justin Van Ness and Erika Summers-Effler
  • Chapter 26. Theorizing Social Movements; Dana M. Moss and David A. Snow.