Critical issues in social theory.

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Critical Issues in Social Theory is an analytical survey of persistent controversies that have shaped the field of sociology. It defines, clarifies, and proposes solutions to these "critical issues" through commentary on the writings of such influential social theorists as Hobbes, Marx, Du...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rhoads, John K (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] Pennsylvania State University Press 1991
Temas:
Sociology.
Sociology
Sociologie.
sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part One: The Scientific Character of Social Theory
  • 1. Social Theory According to Positivism
  • Comte Lays the Foundations
  • Durkheim's Positivism
  • Weber on Causality and Ethical Neutrality
  • Law and System According to Parsons
  • Homans on the Nature of Science
  • Merton on the Nature of Social Theory
  • Positivist Social Theory
  • 2. Social Theory According to Antipositivism
  • The Antipositivist Methodology of Max Weber
  • Ideal-Type and Analytical Concept: Weber and Parsons
  • Concept Formation According to Schutz
  • The Indexical Expression in Ethnomethodology
  • Habermas's Critique of Positivism
  • The Hermeneutical Circle Reexamined
  • The Issue Reconsidered: Type Versus Class
  • Part Two: The Basic Units of Social Theory
  • 3. Methodological Structuralism
  • The Structuralism of the Social Fact
  • Methodological Structuralism in Marx
  • Organism, Personality, Society, and Culture in Parsons's Action System
  • Merton on Anomie
  • Capitalism as System
  • Methodological Structuralism
  • 4. Methodological Individualism
  • Tarde Disputes Durkheim
  • The Forms According to Simmel
  • Weber the Individualist
  • Homans Brings Men Back In
  • The Phenomenology of the Integrative Function
  • The Issue Reconsidered: The Reification of Structure
  • Part Three: Rules And Social Order
  • 5. The Normative Order
  • Comte on Morality and Religion
  • Durkheim Defines Morality
  • The Legitimate Order According to Weber
  • Norms and Values in the Social System
  • Habermas on the Legitimation of Norms
  • Theory of the Normative Order
  • 6. The Construction of Order
  • Mead's Reconstruction of the Act
  • The Ethnomethodological Conception of Rules
  • Bentham's Theory of Order
  • Spencer's Law of Equal Freedom
  • Functionalist Critiques of the Utilitarian Theory of Order
  • Utilitarianism in Homans's Exchange Theory
  • The Issue Reconsidered: Duty and Interest
  • Part Four: The Duality of Consensus and Conflict
  • 7. Consensus
  • Collective Conscience and Representation in Durkheim
  • Consensus in the Social System
  • Consensus and Symbol According to Mead
  • Intersubjectivity in Schutz's Phenomenology
  • The Role of Consensus
  • 8. Conflict
  • The Hobbesian State of Nature
  • Marx and Conflict
  • Marxism and Functionalism
  • Status Groups as Conflict Units
  • Dahrendorf's Critique of Parsons
  • Dahrendorf's Theory of Class Conflict
  • Legitimation as Domination
  • Collins's Conflict Sociology
  • Functions of Conflict
  • The Issue Reconsidered: Power and Authority
  • 9. The Limits of Rationality
  • The Limits of Positivism Again
  • Rationality and the Reification of Social Structure
  • Rationality and Consensus
  • Novelty and Rationality
  • Legitimacy and the Limits of Rationality
  • Notes
  • Index

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