Twenty Lectures Sociological Theory Since World War II / / Jeffrey C. Alexander.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Alexander, Jeffrey C.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1987]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 1987
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (396 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; LECTURE ONE. WHAT IS THEORY? --; LECTURE TWO. PARSONS' FIRST SYNTHESIS --; LECTURE THREE. STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONALISM --; LECTURE FOUR. STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONALISM IN ITS MIDDLE PHASE --; LECTURE FIVE. THE THEORY OF SUCCESSFUL MODERNITY --; LECTURE SIX. PARSONS' LATER THEORY --; LECTURE SEVEN. THE REVOLT AGAINST THE PARSONIAN SYNTHESIS --; LECTURE EIGHT. CONFLICT THEORY (1): JOHN REX'S STRATEGY --; LECTURE NINE. CONFLICT THEORY (2): REX AND THE PROBLEM OF COERCION --; LECTURE TEN. EXCHANGE THEORY (1): GEORGE HOMANS' INSIGHTS --; LECTURE ELEVEN. EXCHANGE THEORY (2): HOMANS AND THE INDIVIDUALIST DILEMMA --; LECTURE TWELVE SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM (1): PRAGMATISM AND THE LEGACY OF GEORGE HERBERT MEAD --; LECTURE THIRTEEN. SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM (2): INDIVIDUALISM AND THE WORK OF BLUMER AND GOFFMAN --; LECTURE FOURTEEN. ETHNOMETHODOLOGY (1): PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE LEGACY OF EDMUND HUSSERL --; LECTURE FIFTEEN. ETHNOMETHODOLOGY (2): HAROLD GARFINKEL'S REBELLION AGAINST NORMS --; LECTURE SIXTEEN. CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY (1): THE HERMENEUTIC CHALLENGE --; LECTURE SEVENTEEN. CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY (2): CLIFFORD GEERTZ'S REBELLION AGAINST DETERMINISM --; LECTURE EIGHTEEN. MARXISM (1): THE LEGACY AND THE REVIVAL --; LECTURE NINETEEN. MARXISM (2): THE CRITICAL THEORY OF HERBERT MARCUSE --; LECTURE TWENTY. SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY TODAY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231898850; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/alex94474
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jeffrey C. Alexander.

Presents a series of lectures on issues in Sociology such as structural-functionalism, Parsons' theory, conflict theory, exchange theory, symbolic interaction, ethnomethodology, and Marxism.