Handbook of Sociological Theory ; Ed

Jonathan H. Turner

I. THEORETICAL METHODOLOGIES AND STRATEGIES

2. What Makes Sciences "Scientific?" 21 Stephan Fuchs 3* Formal Theory 37 Guillermina Jasso

4. Computational Approaches to Sociological Theorizing 69 Kathleen M. Carley

5. The Critical Dimension in Sociological Theory 85 Craig Calhoun

6. Metatheorizing in Sociology: The Basic Parameters and the Potential Contributions of Postmodernism 113 George Ritzer, Shanyang Zhao, and Jim Murphy

II. THE CULTURAL TURN IN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIZING

7. The Strong Program in Cultural Theory: Elements of a Structural Hermeneutics 135 Jeffrey Alexander and Philip Smith

8. Postmodern Social Theory 151 George Ritzer and Douglas Goodman

9. Culture and Identity 171 Michele Lamont

10. Alley Art: Can We ... See ... at Last, the End of Ontology? 187 Judith R. Blau ix III. THEORIZING INTERACTION PROCESSES

11. Traditional Symbolic Interactionism, Role Theory, and Structural Symbolic Interactionism: The Road to Identity Theory „ 211 Sheldon Stryker

12. Role Theory 233 Ralph H. Turner

13. The Emotional/Relational World: Shame and the Social Bond 255 Thomas J. Scheff

14. Action Theory , 269 Hans Joas and Jens Beckert

15. Accounts of Conduct in Interaction: Interruption, Overlap, and Turn- Taking 287 Emanuel A. Schegloff

16. Inequality, Status, and the Construction of Status Beliefs 323

Cecilia L. Ridgeway

IV. THEORIZING FROM THE SYSTEMIC AND MACROLEVEL

17. Macrostructural Theory 343 Peter M. Blau 18. The Return of Grand Theory 353 Jonathan H. Turner and David E. Boyns

19. Systems Theory 379

Kenneth D. Bailey

V. NEW DIRECTIONS IN EVOLUTIONARY THEORIZING

20. Sociobiological Theorizing: Evolutionary Sociology 405 Joseph Lopreato 21. Evolutionary Theorizing 435 Stephen K. Sanderson

VI. THEORIZING ON POWER, CONFLICT, AND CHANGE

22. Sociological Marxism 459 Michael Burawoy and Erik Olin Wright 23. Weberian Theory Today: The Public Face 487 Alan Sica

24. Conflict Theory and Interaction Rituals: The Microfoundations of Conflict Theory 509 Jorg Rossel and Randall Collins

25. Resource Mobilization Theory: Vigorous or Outmoded? 533 John D. McCarthy and Mayer N. Zald

26. Historical Analysis of Political Processes 567 Charles Tilly

27. World-Systems Theory 589 Christopher Chase-Dunn

28. Theoretical Understandings of Gender: A Third of a Century of Feminist Thought in Sociology 613

Janet Saltzman Chafetz

VII. THEORIZING FROM ASSUMPTIONS OF RATIONALITY

29. Social Rationality versus Rational Egoism 635 Siegwart Lindenberg 30. Comparison Theory 669 Guillermina Jasso

31. Exchange and Power: Issues of Structure and Agency 699 Karen S. Cook and Eric R. W. Rice

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