312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this fundamental contribution to the study and application of sociological theory, Wallace examines a wide range of theories within a framework that clarifies their interrelationships and illustrates their implications for empirical research. Wallace is able to point out the symbiotic relationships among these theories which, at first, may appear to be in direct opposition--or at least... Read more
I: Overview of Contemporary Sociological Theory; 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 1; 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
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Walter Wallace
