Frontiers of Social Theory. the New Syntheses / / ed. by George Ritzer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Alexander, Jeffrey C.,; Antonio, Robert J.,; Boden, Deirdre,; Collins, Randall,; Colomy, Paul,; Cook, Karen S.,; Fine, Gary Alan,; Friedman, Debra,; Hechter, Michael,; Kellner, Douglas,; Kollock, Peter,; Lamont, Michèle,; Lemert, Charles C.,; Lengermann, Patricia M.,; Niebrugge-Brantley, Jill,; O’Brien, Jodi,; Ritzer, George,; Turner, Jonathan H.,; Wiley, Norbert,; Wuthnow, Robert,
• HerausgeberIn: Ritzer, George,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1990]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 1990
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (434 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. The Current Status of Sociological Theory: The New Syntheses --; PART I. NEW LIFE IN SOME TRADITIONAL SOCIAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES --; 2. Neofunctionalism Today: Reconstructing a Theoretical Tradition --; 3. Conflict Theory and the Advance of Macro-Historical Sociology --; 4. The Decline of the Grand Narrative of Emancipatory Modernity: Crisis or Renewal in Neo-Marxian Theory? --; 5. Symbolic Interactionism in the Post-Blumerian Age --; 6. Exchange Theory: A Blueprint for Structure and Process --; II. LIVELINESS OF MORE RECENT SOCIAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES --; 7. The World as It Happens: Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis --; 8. The Comparative Advantages of Rational Choice Theory --; 9. The Uses of French Structuralisms in Sociology --; 10. The Postmodern Turn: Positions, Problems, and Prospects --; 11. Betwixt and Between: Recent Cultural Sociology in Europe and the United States --; 12. Feminist Sociological Theory: The Near-Future Prospects --; III. OVERVIEWS OF SOCIAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY --; 13. Micro-Macro Linkage in Sociological Theory: Applying a Metatheoretical Tool --; 14. The Past, Present, and Future of Theory in American Sociology --; 15. The History and Politics of Recent Sociological Theory --; NAME INDEX --; SUBJECT INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231882828; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/ritz91254
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by George Ritzer.

Studies social theory in the 1990's as it moves away from adherence to a given theory and moves toward synthesizing theories and analyzing the interrelations among various levels of analysis.