Contents:1. Sociological Theory --
Part I. Functional Theorizing --
2. Early Functional Theory --
3. Analytical Functionalism / Talcott Parsons --
4. Systems Functionalism / Niklas Luhmann --
Part II. Evolutionary Theorizing --
5. Early Evolutionary Theory --
6. Ecological Theory / Amos Hawley --
7. New Evolutionary Theories --
Part III. Conflict Theorizing --
8. Early Conflict Theory --
9. Neo-Weberian Conflict Theory / Randall Collins --
10. Neo-Marxian Conflict Theory --
11. Feminist Conflict Theory --
Part IV. Critical Theorizing --
12. Early Critical Theory --
13. Critical Theory / Jurgen Habermas --
14. Postmodern Theory --
15. Feminist Critical Theory --
Part V. Exchange Theorizing --
16. Early Exchange Theory --
17. Behavioristic Exchange Theory / George C. Homans --
18. Dialectical Exchange Theory / Peter M. Blau --
19. Network Exchange Theory --
20. Rational Choice Theory --
Part VI. Interactionist Theorizing --
21. Early Interactionist and Phenomenological Theory --
22. Self and Identity Theory --
23. Role Theory / Ralph H. Turner --
24. Dramaturgical Theory / Erving Goffman --
25. Ethnomethodolgical Theory --
26. Theories of Emotions --
Part VII. Structuralist Theorizing --
27. Early Structuralist Theory --
28. Structuration Theory / Anthony Giddens --
29. Cultural Structuralist Theory / Pierre Bourdieu --
30. Network Theory.
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