Publication year: 2008
: 978-0-387-76522-8
This book covers the major theoretical orientations that have been influential in American sociology since the mid-twentieth century. These include symbolic interaction, phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology, social exchange and rational choice theories, sociology of emotions, functionalism and neofunctionalism, conflict and critical theory, selected feminist theories, structuration theory, systems theory, sociobiology, selected sociology of culture perspectives, and major themes from postmodern orientations.
: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Common Sense / Ethnomethodology / Formal Theory Construction / Functionalism / Institution / Phenomenological Sociology / Postmodernism / Rational Choice Theory / Structuralism / Symbolic Interaction / systems theory /Sociology general