Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Photos
List of Figures and Tables
About the Authors
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory
Chapter 2: Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Chapter 3: Émile Durkheim (1858–1917)
Chapter 4: Max Weber (1864-1920)
Part II: Classical Sociological Theory: Expanding the Foundation
Chapter 5: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
Chapter 6: Georg Simmel (1858-1918)
Chapter 7: W.E.B Du Bois (1868-1963)
Chapter 8: George Herbert Mead (1863-1931)
Part III: Twentieth-Century Sociological Traditions
Chapter 9: Structural Functionalism
Talcott C. Parsons
Robert K. Merton
Chapter 10: Critical Theory
Max Horkheimer
Theodor Adorno
Herbert Marcuse
Jürgen Habermas
Patricia Hill Collins
Chapter 11: Exchange and Rational Choice Theories
George C. Homans
Peter M. Blau
James S. Coleman
Chapter 12: Symbolic Interactionism and Dramaturgy
Erving Goffman
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Chapter 13: Phenomenology
Alfred Schutz
Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
Dorothy E. Smith
Chapter 14: Poststructuralism
Michel Foucault
Pierre Bourdieu
Edward Said
Chapter 15: Postmodernism
Jean Baudrillard
Jean-François Lyotard
Judith Butler
Chapter 16: The Global Society
Immanuel Wallerstein
George Ritzer
Anthony Giddens
Glossary and Terminology
References
Index

About the Author

Scott Appelrouth (PhD, New York University, 2000) is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Northridge. His interests include sociological theory, cultural sociology, and social movements. He has taught classical and contemporary theory at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and has published several articles in research- and teaching-oriented journals on social movements, theory, and the controversies over jazz during the 1920s and rap during the 1980s. His current research focuses on political discourse in American party platforms.

Laura Desfor Edles (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1990) is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Northridge. She is the author of Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain: The Transition to Democracy after Franco (1998) and Cultural Sociology in Practice (2002), as well as various articles on culture, theory, race/ethnicity, and social movements.