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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819527403321

Autore

Segre Sandro

Titolo

Contemporary sociological thinkers and theories / / Sandro Segre

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate Publishing, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-138-32294-6

1-317-16051-7

1-315-57394-6

1-317-16050-9

0-7546-9138-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 pages)

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Sociology - History

Sociology

Sociologists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The neofunctionalism of Jeffrey Alexander -- Pierre Bourdieu -- Ethnomethodology -- Exchange theory -- Michel Foucault -- Anthony Giddens -- Erving Goffman -- Jürgen Habermas -- Niklas Luhmann -- Robert K. Merton -- Network and social capital theory -- Talcott Parsons -- Rational choice theory -- The phenomenological perspective of Alfred Schutz -- Structuralism in sociology and other social sciences -- Symbolic interactionism.

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume Sandro Segre provides a comprehensive overview of the major theoretical perspectives in contemporary sociology. The perspectives are divided into four sections: Interpretative Sociology; Structuralist Sociology; Micro and Macrosociological Perspectives; and Historical and Philosophical Perspectives. An introduction to each section provides a detailed overview of the key concepts and figures who contributed to the perspectives. An analysis of their reception in the secondary literature and a balanced evaluation of each perspective derived from extant critical literature are also