TY - BOOK TI - Sociological Theory SN - 817829219X U1 - 300.01 PY - 2002/// CY - New Delhi PB - Vistaar Publications N1 - 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 ER -