Contemporary Social and Sociological Theory: Visualizing Social Worlds

Part I: Introductions
Chapter 1: In the Beginning Was Modernity
Chapter 2: Defining Moments in Twentieth-Century Theory - Talcott Parsons and the Frankfurt School

Part II: Individuals and Situations
Chapter 3: The Language of the Self - Herbert Blumer
Chapter 4: Imaging the Self - Erving Goffman
Chapter 5: Achieving Social Order - Harold Garfinkel
Chapter 6: Social Exchanges - George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins

Part III: Social Structures and Systems
Chapter 7: Structures of Racial and Gender Inequality - William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz
Chapter 8: Structuring Class - Pierre Bourdieu
Chapter 9: Structures of Power - Michel Foucault
Chapter 10: World-Systems Theory - Immanuel Wallerstein
Chapter 11: The Network Society - Manual Castells

Part IV: Modernity - Possibilities and Problems
Chapter 12: Reason and Democracy - Jürgen Habermas
Chapter 13: Civil Society and Democracy - Jeffrey C. Alexander
Chapter 14: Runaway Modernity - Anthony Giddens

Part V: Contemporary Political Identities
Chapter 15: Being Black in America - Patricia Hill Collins and Cornel West
Chapter 16: Text, Power, and Women - Dorothy E. Smith
Chapter 17: Exposing Sex - Judith Butler