LECTURE FIVE. THE THEORY OF SUCCESSFUL MODERNITY

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX
4. LECTURE ONE. WHAT IS THEORY? 1
5. LECTURE TWO. PARSONS' FIRST SYNTHESIS 22
6. LECTURE THREE. STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONALISM 36
7. LECTURE FOUR. STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONALISM IN ITS MIDDLE PHASE 52
8. LECTURE FIVE. THE THEORY OF SUCCESSFUL MODERNITY 73
9. LECTURE SIX. PARSONS' LATER THEORY 89
10. LECTURE SEVEN. THE REVOLT AGAINST THE PARSONIAN SYNTHESIS 111
11. LECTURE EIGHT. CONFLICT THEORY (1): JOHN REX'S STRATEGY 127
12. LECTURE NINE. CONFLICT THEORY (2): REX AND THE PROBLEM OF COERCION 140
13. LECTURE TEN. EXCHANGE THEORY (1): GEORGE HOMANS' INSIGHTS 156
14. LECTURE ELEVEN. EXCHANGE THEORY (2): HOMANS AND THE INDIVIDUALIST DILEMMA 172
15. LECTURE TWELVE SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM (1): PRAGMATISM AND THE LEGACY OF GEORGE HERBERT MEAD 195
16. LECTURE THIRTEEN. SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM (2): INDIVIDUALISM AND THE WORK OF BLUMER AND GOFFMAN 215
17. LECTURE FOURTEEN. ETHNOMETHODOLOGY (1): PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE LEGACY OF EDMUND HUSSERL 238
18. LECTURE FIFTEEN. ETHNOMETHODOLOGY (2): HAROLD GARFINKEL'S REBELLION AGAINST NORMS 257
19. LECTURE SIXTEEN. CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY (1): THE HERMENEUTIC CHALLENGE 281
20. LECTURE SEVENTEEN. CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY (2): CLIFFORD GEERTZ'S REBELLION AGAINST DETERMINISM 302
21. LECTURE EIGHTEEN. MARXISM (1): THE LEGACY AND THE REVIVAL 330
22. LECTURE NINETEEN. MARXISM (2): THE CRITICAL THEORY OF HERBERT MARCUSE 349
23. LECTURE TWENTY. SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY TODAY 374
24. INDEX 381