Four Sociological Traditions: Selected Readings / Edition 1

by Randall Collins

Overview

A collection of readings from the major thinkers in sociology - from classics to contemporaries - which chronicles the development of modern sociology, highlighting the 4 main schools of sociological thought. This edition includes a new section on the rational choice-utilitarian tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195087024
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/03/1994
Edition description:	Revised and Expanded Edition of Three Sociological Traditions
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	8.02(w) x 5.34(h) x 0.74(d)
Lexile:	1300L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

1. The Conflict TraditionHistory as Class Struggle, Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsMaterialism and the Theory of Ideology, Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsThe Class Basis of Politics and Revolution, Karl MarxThe Origin of Modern Capitalism, Max WeberPower Divisions as the Basis of Class Conflict, Ralf DahrendorfA Theory of Inequality, Gerhard E. LenskiA Conflict Theory of Stratification, Randall Collins2. The Rational/Utilitarian TraditionSocial Exchange among Equals and Unequals, George C. HomansBounded Rationality and Satisficing, James G. March and Herbert A. SimonTacit Coordination, Thomas C. SchellingPublic Goods and the Free Rider Problem, Mancur OlsonThe Realization of Effective Norms, James S. Coleman3. The Durkheimian TraditionPre-contractual Solidarity, Emile DurkheimSocial Rituals and Sacred Objects, Emile DurkheimThe Social Circulation of Sentiments, Magic, and Money, Henri Hubert and Marcel MaussKinship as Sexual Property Exchange, Claude Levi-StraussThe Nature of Deference and Demeanor, Erving CoffmanSocial Control in Science, Warren O. HagstromGrid and Group, Mary Douglas4. The Microinteractionist TraditionSociety Is in the Mind, Charles Horton CooleyThought as Internalized Conversation, George Herbert MeadSymbolic Interactionism, Herbert BlumerThe Ethnomethodology of the Human Reality Constructor, Hugh Mehan and Houston WoodFrame Analysis, Erving Goffman