Main description:
This is a book that will be used in a one semester course where the breadth of the development of sociological theory is covered in one semester. The book will be a hybrid of text and readings by providing both original works and a theoretical and historical framework with which to better understand the readings. The proposed readings will consist of the major writings of sociology's key theorists, and Edles/Applerouth will provide a historical and theoretical framework for understanding them. This is a major difference from the traditional reader which can leave students unmotivated when readings are thrown at them one after another with no interpretive guidance or analytical framework.
Key Features:
Text plus readings in a hybrid form in unique. The text will provide students the interpretive and analytical guidance necessary to interpret the readings. The written text will include a 20 page Introduction, 3 - 5 pages for section introductions, 1 - 2 page article introductions, and a 10 -15 p. conclusion. A metatheoretical framework will be presented in Ch.1 to give students a framework to better understand the theoretical perspectives. Discussion questions at the ends of sections. Only book with photos of not only the theorists, but of the historical milieu from which the theories arose. Only book with a glossary at the back
Table of contents:
1. Introduction
Part I: The Founding Figures
2. Karl Marx
3. Emile Dukheim
4. Max Weber
Part II: Classical Sociological Theory
5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
6. George Simmel
7. W.E.B. Du Bois
8. George Herbert Mead
Part III: 20th Century Sociological Traditions
9. Functionalism
10. Critical Theories
11. Exchange Theories
12. Symbolic Interactionism and Dramaturgy
13. Phenomenology
Part IV: Broadening Sociological Theory
14. Feminist Theory
15. Post-Structuralist and Postmodern Theories, with David Boyns
16. Contemporary Theoretical Syntheses
17. The Global Society
This is a book that will be used in a one semester course where the breadth of the development of sociological theory is covered in one semester. The book will be a hybrid of text and readings by providing both original works and a theoretical and historical framework with which to better understand the readings. The proposed readings will consist of the major writings of sociology's key theorists, and Edles/Applerouth will provide a historical and theoretical framework for understanding them. This is a major difference from the traditional reader which can leave students unmotivated when readings are thrown at them one after another with no interpretive guidance or analytical framework.
Key Features:
Text plus readings in a hybrid form in unique. The text will provide students the interpretive and analytical guidance necessary to interpret the readings. The written text will include a 20 page Introduction, 3 - 5 pages for section introductions, 1 - 2 page article introductions, and a 10 -15 p. conclusion. A metatheoretical framework will be presented in Ch.1 to give students a framework to better understand the theoretical perspectives. Discussion questions at the ends of sections. Only book with photos of not only the theorists, but of the historical milieu from which the theories arose. Only book with a glossary at the back
Table of contents:
1. Introduction
Part I: The Founding Figures
2. Karl Marx
3. Emile Dukheim
4. Max Weber
Part II: Classical Sociological Theory
5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
6. George Simmel
7. W.E.B. Du Bois
8. George Herbert Mead
Part III: 20th Century Sociological Traditions
9. Functionalism
10. Critical Theories
11. Exchange Theories
12. Symbolic Interactionism and Dramaturgy
13. Phenomenology
Part IV: Broadening Sociological Theory
14. Feminist Theory
15. Post-Structuralist and Postmodern Theories, with David Boyns
16. Contemporary Theoretical Syntheses
17. The Global Society