Overview
- Contributing authors were specifically selected to capture the diversity of theoretical activity in sociology
- Covers most of today’s theoretical approaches on sociology
- Provides basic reference that aids in helping readers understand theoretical models of today rather than past approaches
- Allows a wide variety of prominent theorists to review their work
- Emphasis lays in the present work of each contributing author of the text
- Provides overviews of traditions as well as insight into where theoretical sociology is going
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research (HSSR)
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Sociological Theory Today
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Theoretical Methodologies and Strategies
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The Cultural Turn in Sociological Theorizing
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Theorizing Interaction Process
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From the reviews:
"This handbook is a marvelous accomplishment. Organized in seven sections, it skillfully captures, maps, and interprets the wide range of theory that now operates in the discipline. Each of its 31 chapters is carefully crafted by a master theorist. [...] This is a glittering gallery of sociological theory written by the preeminent theorists working in the field today [...] there are gemlike chapters that show creative theorists at work, doing what good theorists do best, which is figuring out how the social world works."
(American Journal of Sociology, 2003)
"Instead of compiling a compendium of old, dusty standards, Turner gathered the newest, most-viable theories in sociology, ‘with an eye to capturing the diversity of theoretical activity.’ … From methodological and empirical concerns to cultural and communicative concepts, as well as computational and postmodern approaches, The Handbook of Sociology Theory covers the gamutof modern sociological research. … will take one a long way to understanding the history and the current thoughts of sociology and the social sciences." (Roy Christopher, frontwheeldrive.com, January, 2007)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Sociological Theory
Editors: Jonathan H. Turner
Series Title: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-36274-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46554-3Published: 30 November 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-32458-6Published: 17 May 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-36274-8Published: 22 November 2006
Series ISSN: 1389-6903
Series E-ISSN: 2542-839X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 745
Topics: Sociology, general, Political Science