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For information: ^§l/|g, Pine Forge Press %m?t A Sage Publications Company 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 (805) 499-4224 E-mail: [email protected] Sage Publications Ltd. 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU United Kingdom Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd. M-32 Market Greater Kailash I New Delhi 110 048 India Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Adams, Bert N. Sociological theory / Bert N. Adams and R. A. Sydie. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7619-8557-3 1. Sociology. I. Sydie, R. A. (Rosalind Ann), 1940- II. Title. HM585 .A33 2001 301'.01— dc21 00-012704 This book is printed on acid-free paper. 01 02 03 04 05 06 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Publisher: Stephen D. Rutter Assistant to the Publisher: Ann Makarias Production Management: Scratchgravel Publishing Services Copy Editor: Margaret C. Tropp Typesetter: Scratchgravel Publishing Services Indexer: James Minkin Cover Designer: Ravi Balasuriya About the Authors Bert N. Adams (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) has taught sociologi- cal theory extensively, both in East Africa and at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. He has published on consensus and coercion theories and on the importance of classical theory to a degree in sociology. He also teaches and writes on the sociology of the family. He and his co-author, R. A. Sydie, have written a paper on C. P. Gilman and Beatrice Webb, which was published in Sociological Origins in October 2000. R. A. Sydie has been professor of sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton for the past 30 years and is the current chair of the department of sociology. Her research interests include sociological theory, art and cul- ture, and gender studies. Professor Sydie is the author of Natural Women, Cultured Men. Her latest research project involves a historical examination of sociological work on love and eroticism. About the Publisher Pine Forge Press is a new educational publisher, dedicated to publishing innovative books and software throughout the social sciences. On this and any other of our publications, we welcome your comments. Please write to: Pine Forge Press A Sage Publications Company 31 St. James Ave., Suite 510 Boston, MA 02116 (617) 753-7512 E-mail: [email protected] Visit our World Wide Web site, your direct link to a multitude of online resources: www.pinef orge. com To Diane and Campbell Brief Contents Preface xxiii A Note to Students xxix Section I The European Roots of Sociological Theory 1 1 The Origins of Sociological Theory 3 2 Theorizing After the French Revolution I Saint-Simon, Comte, and Martineau 32 Section II Conservative Theories 59 3 Evolutionism and Functionalism I Spencer and Sumner 61 4 Society as Sui Generis I Durkheim 90 Section III Radical Theory 119 5 Radical Anticapitalism I Marx and Engels 121 6 Marxism Extended I Lenin and Luxemburg 145 Section IV Sociological Theories of Complexity and Form 167 7 Social Action and Societal Complexity I Max Weber and Marianne Weber 169 8 The Sociology of Form and Content I Simmel 197 Section V Sociological Theories of Politics and Economics 223 9 Political Sociological Theories I Pareto and Michels 225 10 Economic Sociological Theories I Veblen and Schumpeter 245 Section VI Other Voices in Sociological Theorizing 265 11 Society and Gender I Gilman and Webb 267 12 Sociological Theory and Race I Du Bois 291 13 Society, Self, and Mind I Cooley, Mead, and Freud 310 Section VII Twentieth-Century Functionalism and Beyond 343 14 Twentieth-Century Functionalism I Parsons and Merton 345 15 Systems, Structuration, and Modernity I Luhmann and Giddens 369 Section VIM Criticism, Marxism, and Change 393 16 Critical Theory I The Frankfurt School and Habermas 395 17 Marxism Since 1930 I Poulantzas, Althusser, Dunayevskaya, and Wright 425 18 Sociocultural Change: Evolution, World System, and Revolution I Service, Wallerstein, and Skocpol 448 Section IX Transitions and Challenges 477 19 Mid-Twentieth-Century Sociology 479 20 Symbolic Interactionism I Blumer, Goffman, and Hochschild 502 21 Rational Choice and Exchange I Coleman 526 22 Feminist Sociological Theory I Smith and Collins 544 23 Knowledge, Truth, and Power I Foucault and Feminist Responses 574 24 Final Thoughts on Sociological Theorizing 600 Credits 611 Index Index-1 IX
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