TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allan,Kenneth
TI  - The social lens: an invitation to social and sociological theory 
SN  - 9781412992787
AV  - HM586 .A44 2013
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Thousand Oaks, CA
PB  - Sage Publications
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Sociologists
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-580) and Index; -- Acknowledgments; -- Modernity and the sociological response; -- On theory; -- The evolution of society : Herbert Spencer (1820-1903); -- Contradictions in capitalism : Karl Marx (1818-1883); -- The irrationality of rationality : Max Weber (1864-1920); -- The problem with diversity : Emile Durkheim (1858-1917); -- The modern person : George Herbert Mead and Georg Simmel; -- The challenges of gender and race : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and W. E. B. du Bois; -- Contemporary sociological theory; -- Structural functionalism : Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Merton; -- And Jeffrey C. Alexander; -- Conflict theory : Lewis Coser, Ralf Dahrendorf, and Randall Collins; -- What happened to class? : Erik Olin Wright, Daniel Bell, and Pierre Bourdieu; -- Structures of racial and gender inequality : William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz; -- Exchange theory : George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins; -- Self and situation : Erving Goffman, R. S. Perinbanayagam, and harold Garfinkel; -- Contemporary new visions and critiques; -- Problems in modernity : Jorgen Habermas and Anthony Giddens; -- Globalizing systems : Immanuel Wallerstein and Manuel Castells; -- Upsetting reality : Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard; -- Politics of identity : Dorothy E. Smith, Patricia Hill Collins, and Cornel West; -- References; -- Index; -- About the author
ER  -