1. Sociological Theory Today 1 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 Index 721 PPN: 25596708X Titel: Handbook of sociological theory ; ed. by Jonathan H. Turner. - . - Springer New York, NY 2006 ISBN: 0-387-32458-5Pb. : EUR 64.15 (freier Pr.), sfr 106.00 (freier Pr.) Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund.