Readings in Contemporary Sociological Theory: From Modernity to Post-Modernity

By: Donald McQuarie

This accessible guide to the maze of modern sociological theory features a collection of 39 essays written by prominent American and European theorists - representing the last fifty years of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131042661
• ISBN13: 9780131042667
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 1.0" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

GREAT for college level's Sociology students and other cultural addicts !

This college level volume was a pretty good introduction for Your's Truly to brake into the amazingly large and almost indefinitely diversified maze of texts on Contemporary Sociological Theory. Written by a varied crowd of famous and/or seasoned Auteurs assembled here with great care by Professor Donald McQuarie of Bowling Green State University. (For the few words and terms that were unknown to me, I used an old copy of the New Webster's dictionary and thesaurus of the English language at the very cheap price tag of ONLY 10 CENTS !) Begin your reading adventure with: Chapter 1: Functionalism And Neofunctionalism... Texts by authors A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, Robert K. Merton, Charles Ackerman and Talcott Parsons, Niklas Luhmann, Paul B. Colomy, Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra R. Maryanski. Chapter 2: Conflict Theory... Texts by authors Anthony Giddens, Ralf Dahrendorf, Lewis A. Coser, Randall Collins. Chapter 3: Marxism and Neo-Marxism... (I loved this chapter!) with texts by Herbert Marcuse, Philip Kasinitz, Jürgen Habermas, Immanuel Wallerstein, , Erik Olin Wright, Lise Vogel. Chapter 4: Microsociology... Texts by authors Leonard S. Cottrell, Herbert Blumer, George Psathas, A. Lincoln Ryave and James N. Schenkein, George C. Homans, Elaine Hatfield, Nancy C.M. Hartsock, Erving Goffman. Chapter 5: Micro versus Macro Approaches... With pieces by George C. Homans, Bruce H. Mayhew, Debra Friedman and Michael Hechter, Randall Collins, Peter M. Blau, Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens. Chapter 6: New Perspectives and Approaches... texts by Edward O. Wilson, William R. Catton and Riley E. Dunlap, Judith Stacey and Barrie Thorne, Joanne Finkelstein, Charles Tilly, Norman K. Denzin, Steven Seidman. You should get totally hooked up with the field(s!) of sociology once you have read through this challenging anthology. Happy thrills ...