Society as a system of subsystems -- Manifest and latent functions : the Matthew effect -- An automated utopia : systems theory -- From functionalism to structuralism -- Constructivist structuralism : habitus -- The analysis of socially constructed reality -- Interactionism -- Dramaturgy -- Ethnomethodology -- The information society -- A new modernity -- Individuals as the basis of social actions -- The theory of communicative action -- The dialogic turn in the social sciences. |