Contemporary Sociological Theory -

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Résumé :

Notes on the Editors ix

Acknowledgements x

General Introduction 1

Part I Symbolic Action 27

Introduction to Part I 29

1 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life) 36
Erving Goffman

2 Symbolic Interactionism (from Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method) 51
Herbert Blumer

3 Interaction Ritual Chains (from Interaction Ritual Chains) 62
Randall Collins

Part II Structure and Agency 77

Introduction to Part II 79

4 A Theory of Group Solidarity (from Principles of Group Solidarity) 88
Michael Hechter

5 Metatheory: Explanation in Social Science (from Foundations of Social Theory) 100
James S. Coleman

6 Catnets (from Notes on the Constituents of Social Structure) 112
Harrison White

7 Some New Rules of Sociological Method (from New Rules For Sociological Method) 123
Anthony Giddens

Part III Institutions 129

Introduction to Part III 131

8 Economic Embeddedness 136
Mark Granovetter

9 The Iron Cage Revisited 145
Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell

Part IV Power and Inequality 161

Introduction to Part IV 163

10 The Power Elite (from The Power Elite) 172
C. Wright Mills

11 Durable Inequality (from Durable Inequality) 179
Charles Tilly

12 Power: A Radical View (from Power: A Radical View) 186
Steven Lukes

13 Societies as Organized Power Networks (from The Sources of Social Power, Vol I. A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760) 196
Michael Mann

Part V The Sociological Theory of Michel Foucault 213

Introduction to Part V 215

14 The History of Sexuality (from The History of Sexuality, Vol I: An Introduction) 220
Michel Foucault

15 Discipline and Punish (from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison) 229
Michel Foucault

Part VI The Sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu 237

Introduction to Part VI 239

16 Social Space and Symbolic Space (from Social Space and Symbolic Space: Introduction to a Japanese Reading of Distinction) 248
Pierre Bourdieu

17 Structures, Habitus, Practices (from The Logic of Practice) 257
Pierre Bourdieu

18 The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed 270
Pierre Bourdieu

19 Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field (from Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field) 286
Pierre Bourdieu

Part VII Race, Gender, and Intersectionality 297

Introduction to Part VII 299

20 The Theory of Racial Formation (from Racial Formation in the United States) 308
Michael Omi and Howard Winant

21 Intellectual Schools and the Atlanta School (from The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology) 318
Aldon D. Morris

22 The Paradoxes of Integration (from The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in Americas Racial Crisis) 329
Orlando Patterson

23 The Conceptual Practices of Power (from The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge) 337
Dorothy E. Smith

24 Black Feminist Epistemology (from Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment) 345
Patricia Hill Collins

25 Demarginalizing the Inte...

Biographie:

Craig Calhoun is University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University, USA and former Director of the London School of Economics and President of the Social Science Research Council.

Joseph Gerteis is Professor of Sociology and co-Director of the American Mosaic Project at the University of Minnesota, USA. His research focuses on race, ethnicity, and political culture.

James Moody is Professor of Sociology at Duke University, USA, and Director of the Duke Network Analysis Center. His work focuses on the network foundations of social cohesion and diffusion.

Steven Pfaff is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, USA. His research focuses on religion, politics and social change.

Indermohan Virk is Executive Director of the Patten Foundation and the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University Bloomington, USA....