CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Sociological Theory Creating Sociological Theory Defining Sociological Theory Creating Sociological Theory: A More Realistic View Overview of the Book Summary Suggested Readings CHAPTER 2 Classical Theories I Émile Durkheim: From Mechanical to Organic Solidarity Karl Marx: From Capitalism to Communism Max Weber: The Rationalization of Society Summary Suggested Readings CHAPTER 3 Classical Theories II Georg Simmel: The Growing Tragedy of Culture Thorstein Veblen: Increasing Control of Business Over Industry George Herbert Mead: Social Behaviorism W. E. B. Du Bois: Race and Racism in Modern Society Summary Suggested Readings CHAPTER 4 Contemporary Grand Theories I Structural Functionalism Conflict Theory General Systems Theory Summary Suggested Readings CHAPTER 5 Contemporary Grand Theories II Neo-Marxian Theory The Civilizing Process The Colonization of the Lifeworld The Juggernaut of Modernity Summary Suggested Readings CHAPTER 6 Contemporary Theories of Everyday Life Symbolic Interactionism Dramaturgy Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Exchange Theory Rational Choice Theory Summary Suggested Readings CHAPTER 7 Contemporary Integrative Theories A More Integrated Exchange Theory Structuration Theory Culture and Agency Habitus and Field Summary Suggested Readings CHAPTER 8 Contemporary Feminist Theories The Basic Theoretical Questions The Classical Roots Contemporary Feminist Theories Challenges to Feminism Summary Suggested Readings CHAPTER 9 Theories of Race and Colonialism Fanon and the Colonial Subject Postcolonial Theory Critical Theories of Race and Racism Racial Formation A Systematic Theory of Race Southern Theory and Indigenous Resurgence Summary Suggested Readings CHAPTER 10 Postmodern Grand Theories The Transition From Industrial to Postindustrial Society Increasing Governmentality (and Other Grand Theories) Postmodernity as Modernity’s Coming of Age The Rise of Consumer Society, Loss of Symbolic Exchange, and Increase in Simulations The Consumer Society and the New Means of Consumption Queer Theory: Sex and Sexuality Summary Suggested Readings CHAPTER 11 Globalization Theory Major Contemporary Theorists on Globalization Cultural Theory Economic Theory Political Theory Summary Suggested Readings CHAPTER 12 Science, technology, and nature Affect Theory and the New Materialism Science Studies and Actor-Network Theory Theories of the Anthropocene Summary Suggested Readings Glossary Source Acknowledgments