Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A work on sociological theory, this title stems from the need of some instructors for a short text to be used in one-semester courses in sociological theory.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Chapter 1 Introduction Creating Sociological Theory Defining Sociological Theory Creating Sociological Theory: A More Realistic View Overview of the Book
• Chapter 2 Classical Theories-I Emile Durkheim
• Chapter 3 Classical Theories-II Georg Simmel Thorstein Veblen George Herbert Mead
• Chapter 4 Contemporary Grand Theories-I Structural Functionalism Conflict Theory Systems Theory
• Chapter 5 Contemporary Grand Theories-II Neo-Marxian Theory The Civilizing Process Colonizing the Lifeworld The Juggernaut of Modernity
• Chapter 6 Contemporary Theories of Everyday Life Symbolic Interactionism Dramaturgy Ethnomethodology Exchange Theory Rational Choice Theory
• Chapter 7 Contemporary Integrative Theories A More Integrated Exchange Theory Structuration Theory Culture and Agency Habitus and Field
• Chapter 8 Contemporary Feminist Theories
• Chapter 9 Postmodern Grand Theories The Transition from Industrial to Postindustrial Society Increasing Governmentality (and other Grand Theories) Postmodernity as Modernity's Coming of Age The Rise of Consumer Society, Loss of Symbolic Exchange, and Increase in Simulations The Consumer Society and the New Means of Consumption Dromology Feminism and Postmodern Social Theory
• Chapter 10 Globalization Theory Major Contemporary Theorists on Globalization Cultural Theory Economic Theory Political Theory