Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. 1. The Current Status of Sociological Theory: The New Syntheses 1
5. PART I. NEW LIFE IN SOME TRADITIONAL SOCIAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES
6. 2. Neofunctionalism Today: Reconstructing a Theoretical Tradition 33
7. 3. Conflict Theory and the Advance of Macro-Historical Sociology 68
8. 4. The Decline of the Grand Narrative of Emancipatory Modernity: Crisis or Renewal in Neo-Marxian Theory? 88
9. 5. Symbolic Interactionism in the Post-Blumerian Age 117
10. 6. Exchange Theory: A Blueprint for Structure and Process 158
11. II. LIVELINESS OF MORE RECENT SOCIAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES
12. 7. The World as It Happens: Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis 185
13. 8. The Comparative Advantages of Rational Choice Theory 214
14. 9. The Uses of French Structuralisms in Sociology 230
15. 10. The Postmodern Turn: Positions, Problems, and Prospects 255
16. 11. Betwixt and Between: Recent Cultural Sociology in Europe and the United States 287
17. 12. Feminist Sociological Theory: The Near-Future Prospects 316
18. III. OVERVIEWS OF SOCIAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
19. 13. Micro-Macro Linkage in Sociological Theory: Applying a Metatheoretical Tool 347
20. 14. The Past, Present, and Future of Theory in American Sociology 371
21. 15. The History and Politics of Recent Sociological Theory 392
22. NAME INDEX 417
23. SUBJECT INDEX 429