Frontiers of Social Theory The New Syntheses

includes index and biblioraphy

The Current Status of Sociological Theory: The new Syntheses...................1 1. New life in Some Traditional Social and Sociological Theories Neofunctionalism Today: Reconstructing a Theoretical Tradition.............33 Conflict theory and the Advbance of Macro-Historical Sociology .........68 The Decline of the Grand Narrative of Emancipatory modernity : Crisis or Renewal in Neo-Marxian Theory........88 Symbolic Interactionism in the Post-Blumerian Age ................117 Exchange theory : A blueprint for Structure and Process ...........158 2. Liveliness of More recent social and sociological Theories The world as it Happens : Ethnomethodology and Conversation analysis ..........185 The Comparative advantages of Rational Choice theory ..........214 The Uses of French Structuralism in Sociology........230 The postmodern Turn: Positions, Problems, and prospects .........255 Betwixt and between : Recent cultural Sociology in Europe and the United States ...............287 Feminist sociological Theory : The Near-Future pospects ...........316 3. Overviews Of Social and Sociological Theory Micro-Macro linkage in Sociological Theory: Applying a Metatheoretical Tool ...........347 The past, Present and future of Theory in American sociology .............371 The History and Politics of Recent Sociological Theory .........392