Structure of Sociological Theory - Hardcover

Turner, Jonathan

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9780534138424: Structure of Sociological Theory

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ISBN 10: 053413842X ISBN 13: 9780534138424

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 1990

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THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY provides a framework for organizing different types of sociological theory. The text is split into sections dealing with each of what Turner identifies as the main streams (paradigms) of sociological theory-- functionalism, conflict theory, exchange theory, interactionist theory, and structural theory..The author deals with the work of a number of key modern representatives of each of the paradigms: so that Parson, Merton, Luhmann, Dahrendorff, Coser, Habermas, Homans, Blau, Emerson, Blumer, Kuhn, Ralph Turner, Collins, Giddens, and Foucault each receive a full chapter or a substantial part of one. Although he discusses founding fathers (Comte, Marx, Durkheim, Simmel et al) in terms of the origins of each theoretical paradigm ,the emphasis is more on how their work has contributed to contemporary theoretical developments, than on setting out the elements of their ideas.

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Jonathan Turner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of more than two dozen books, including THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY, which is published by Wadsworth as a companion volume to this text. Dr. Turner is also the author of well over one hundred research articles in journals and books, and has served on the editorial boards of many journals and publishers, including the University of California Press. An award-winning scholar, he has received the Faculty Research Lecturer Award at the University of California for his research on social theory.

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