Rethinking Contemporary Social Theory
- ISBN-10
- 1612055990
- ISBN-13
- 9781612055992
- Category
- Sociology
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016
- Author
- Roberta Garner
Description
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Paradigms -- Introduction to Part I -- Chapter One Paradigms in Sociology -- Chapter Two Conflict Constructionism: Elements of the Paradigm -- Chapter Three History of a Paradigm -- Part II Paradigm Change in Selected Subfields -- Introduction to Part II -- Section 1 Deep Impact: The New Paradigm Becomes Dominant -- Chapter Four Constructing Difference and Dominance: Race-Ethnicity and Gender -- Chapter Five Culture in an Era of Globalization -- Chapter Six Media in the Information Age: Surface Intensities and Total Symbolic Environments -- Chapter Seven Sociology of the Self: From Personality to Persona -- Section 2 Paradigms in Play -- Chapter Eight Political Sociology and the Analysis of Collective Action: Old and New in Harmony -- Chapter Nine Urban Sociology and Spatial Analysis: Paradigms in Coexistence -- Chapter Ten Disruptions in the Field Formerly Known as Sociology of Deviance -- Section 3 Paradigm Limited -- Chapter Eleven Social Class and Socioeconomic Inequality -- Chapter Twelve Contemporary Theories of Family Life -- Section 4 Paradigms Reconstituted in a Transdisciplinary Field -- Chapter Thirteen The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Medical Practice -- Conclusion -- Glossary and Concepts -- References -- Suggested Readings -- Index -- About the Authors and Contributors
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