Sociological Theory/ Adams SydieAdams,Bert N.

Section I The European Roots of Sociological Theory 1
1 The Origins of Sociolcgical Theory 3
2 Theorizing After the French Revolution I Saint-Simon,
Comte, and Martineau 32
Section II Conservative Theories 59
3 Evolutionism and Funaionalism I Spencer and Sumner 61
4 Society as Sui Generis 1 Durkheim 90
Section Hi Radical Theory 119
5 Radical Anticapitalism I Marx and Engels 121
6 Marxism Extended I Lenin and Luxemburg 145
Section IV Sociological Theories of Complexity and Form 167
7 Social Action and Societal Complexity I Max Weber and
Marianne Weber 169
8 The Sociology of Form and Content I Simmel 197
Section V Sociological Theories of Politics and EconomiG 223
9 Political Sociological Theories I Pareto and Michels 225
10 Economic Sociological Theories I Veblen and Schumpeter 245
Section VI OtherVoices in Sociological Theorizing 265
11 Society and Gender I Oilman and Webb 267
12 Sociological Theory and Race I Du Bois 291
13 Society, Self, and Mind I Cooley, Mead, and Freud 310
Section VII Twentieth-Century Functionalism and Beyond 343
14 Twentieth-Century Functionalism I Parsons and Merton 345
15 Systems, Structuration, and Modernity I Luhmann
and Giddens 369
Section VIII Criticism, Marxism, and Change 393
16 Critical Theory 1 The Frankfurt School and Habermas 395
17 Marxism Since 1930 I Poulantzas, Althusser, Dunayevskaya,
and Wright 425
18 Sociocultural Change: Evolution, World System, and Revolution 1
Service, Wallerstein, and Skocpol 448
Section IX Transitions and Challenges 477
19 Mid-Twentieth-Century Sociology 479
20 Symbolic Interactionism I Blumer, Goffman, and Hochschild 502
21 Rational Choice and Exchange I Coleman 526
22 Feminist Sociological Theory I Smith and Collins 544
23 Knowledge, Truth, and Power I Foucault and
Feminist Responses 574
24 Final Thoughts on Sociological Theorizing 600