Sociological Theory
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- PART I Overview of Contemporary Sociological Theory -- Definitions of the Social -- Explanations of the Social -- The Basic Taxonomy -- Eleven Viewpoints in Contemporary Sociological Theory -- Ecologism -- Demographism -- Materialism -- Psychologism -- Technologism -- Functional Structuralism -- Exchange Structuralism -- Conflict Structuralism -- A Missing Viewpoint -- Symbolic Interactionism -- Social Action and Functional Imperativism -- Four Additional Complications in the Basic Taxonomy -- Unmixed and Mixed Types of Explanandum and Explanans -- Micro and Macro "Levels" of Explanandum and Explanans -- Genetic and Maintenance Explanations -- Change and Stability Explanations -- Conclusions -- PART II Readings in Contemporary Sociological Theory -- 1 ECOLOGISM -- Human Ecology -- Cultural, Behavioral, and Ecological Perspectives in the Study of Social Organization -- 2 DEMOGRAPHISM -- Notes on the Concept of a Population -- 3 MATERIALISM -- The External System -- 4 PSYCHOLOGISM -- The Institutional and the Subinstitutional -- 5 TECHNOLOGISM -- The Hypothesis of Cultural Lag -- Organic Energy and the Low-Energy Society -- 6 FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURALISM -- Social Structure and Anomie -- 7 EXCHANGE STRUCTURALISM -- The Structure of Social Associations -- 8 CONFLICT STRUCTURALISM -- Dialectic and Functionalism: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis -- Toward a Theory of Social Conflict -- 9 SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM -- Play, the Game, and the Generalized Other -- Sociological Implications of the Thought of George Herbert Mead -- 10 SOCIAL ACTIONISM -- The Changing Foundations of the Parsonian Action Scheme -- 11 FUNCTIONAL IMPERATIVISM -- Pattern Variables Revisited: A Response to Robert Dubin -- INDEX