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.)

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

Table of Contents

• 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