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Four sociological traditions
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- Creator
- Randall Collins
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- Language
- English
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1994
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- xi, 321 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780195082081, 0195082087
- OCLC
- ocm28411490
- Rev. ed. of: Three sociological traditions.1985.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Prologue: The Rise of the Social Sciences -- Social Thought in the Agrarian Empires -- Medieval Universities Create the Modern Intellectual -- Economics: the First Social Science -- The Rise of Public Schools and the University Revolution -- The Development of the Disciplines -- And Finally Sociology -- 1. The Conflict Tradition -- The Pivotal Position of Karl Marx -- Friedrich Engels, the Sociologist in the Shadows -- Max Weber and the Multidimensional Theory of Stratification -- The Twentieth Century Intermingles Marxian and Weberian Ideas -- Appendix: Simmel, Coser, and Functionalist Conflict Theory -- 2. The Rational/Utilitarian Tradition -- The Original Rise and Fall of Utilitarian Philosophy -- Bringing the Individual Back In -- Sociology Discovers Sexual and Marriage Markets -- The Paradoxes and Limits of Rationality -- Economics Invades Sociology, and Vice Versa -- The Rational Theory of the State -- The New Utilitarian Policy Science -- 3. The Durkheimian Tradition -- Sociology as the Science of Social Order -- Two Wings: The Macro Tradition -- The Second Wing: The Lineage of Social Anthropology -- Ritual Exchange Networks: The Micro/Macro Linkage -- The Future of the Durkheimian Tradition -- 4. The Microinteractionist Tradition -- A Native American Sociology -- The Pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce -- Society Is in The Mind: Cooley -- George Herbert Mead's Sociology of Thinking -- Blumer Creates Symbolic Interactionism -- The Sociology of Consciousness: Husserl, Schutz, and Garfinkel -- Erving Goffman's Counterattack -- A Summing Up