Table of Contents

Introduction Anthony Giddens and Jonathan H. Turner 1. The centrality of the classics Jeffrey C. Alexander 2. Behaviourism and after George C. Homans 3. Symbolic interactionism Hans Joas 4. Parsonian theory today: in search of a new synthesis Richard Munch 5. Analytical theorizing Jonathan H. Turner 6. Structuralism, post-structuralism and the production of culture Anthony Giddens 7. Ethnomethodology John C. Heritage 8. Structuration theory and social Praxis Ira J. Cohen 9. World-systems analysis Immanuel Wallerstein 10. Class analysis Ralph Miliband 11. Critical theory Axel Honneth 12. Sociology and the mathematical method Thomas P. Wilson Index.