TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allan,Kenneth.
TI  - Contemporary social and sociological theory: visualizing social worlds
SN  - 9781412992770
U1  - 301 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Thousand Oaks
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Sociology -- Philosophy
KW  - Sociologists
N1  - 	Introductions. In the beginning was modernity --
Defining moments in twentieth-century theory / Talcott Parsons and the Frankfurt School --
Individuals and situations. The language of the self / Herbert Blumer --
Imaging the self / Erving Goffman --
Achieving social order / Harold Garfinkel --
Social exchanges / George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins --
Social structures and systems. Structures of racial and gender inequality / William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz --
Structuring class / Pierre Bourdieu --
Structures of power / Michel Foucault --
World systems theory / Immanuel Wallerstein --
The network society / Manuel Castells --
Modernity : possibilities and problems. Reason and democracy / Jurgen Habermas --
Civil society and democracy / Jeffrey C. Alexander --
Runaway modernity / Anthony Giddens --
Contemporary political identities. Being Black in America / Patricia Hill Collins and Cornel West --
Text, power, and women / Dorothy E. Smith --
Exposing sex / Judith Butler --
Conclusion : post-thinking
ER  -