Contemporary Sociological Theory

Fourth Edition

Edited by

Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff,and Indermohan Virk

This edition first published 2022

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1 Cover

2 Title page Contemporary Sociological Theory Fourth Edition Edited by Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff,and Indermohan Virk

3 Copyright

4 Notes on the Editors

5 Acknowledgements

6 General Introduction

7 Part I Symbolic Action Introduction to Part I 1 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life) Erving Goffman 2 Symbolic Interactionism (from Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method) Herbert Blumer 3 Interaction Ritual Chains (from Interaction Ritual Chains) Randall Collins

8 Part II Structure and Agency Introduction to Part II 4 A Theory of Group Solidarity (from Principles of Group Solidarity) Michael Hechter 5 Metatheory: Explanation in Social Science (from Foundations of Social Theory) James S. Coleman 6 Catnets (from Notes on the Constituents of Social Structure) Harrison White 7 Some New Rules of Sociological Method (from New Rules For Sociological Method) Anthony Giddens

9 Part III Institutions Introduction to Part III 8 Economic Embeddedness Mark Granovetter 9 The Iron Cage Revisited Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell

10 Part IV Power and Inequality Introduction to Part IV 10 The Power Elite (from The Power Elite) C. Wright Mills 11 Durable Inequality (from Durable Inequality) Charles Tilly 12 Power: A Radical View (from Power: A Radical View) Steven Lukes 13 Societies as Organized Power Networks (from The Sources of Social Power, Vol I. A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760) Michael Mann

11 Part V The Sociological Theory of Michel Foucault Introduction to Part V 14 The History of Sexuality (from The History of Sexuality, Vol I: An Introduction) Michel Foucault 15 Discipline and Punish (from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison) Michel Foucault

12 Part VI The Sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu Introduction to Part VI 16 Social Space and Symbolic Space (from “Social Space and Symbolic Space: Introduction to a Japanese Reading of Distinction”) Pierre Bourdieu 17 Structures, Habitus, Practices (from The Logic of Practice) Pierre Bourdieu 18 The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed Pierre Bourdieu 19 Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field (from Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field) Pierre Bourdieu

13 Part VII Race, Gender, and Intersectionality Introduction to Part VII 20 The Theory of Racial Formation (from Racial Formation in the United States) Michael Omi and Howard Winant 21 Intellectual Schools and the Atlanta School (from The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology) Aldon D. Morris 22 The Paradoxes of Integration (from The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in Americas “Racial” Crisis) Orlando Patterson 23 The Conceptual Practices of Power (from The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge) Dorothy E. Smith 24 Black Feminist Epistemology (from Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment) Patricia Hill Collins 25 Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex Kimberle Crenshaw 26 Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree 27 The Politics of Erased Migrations Rocio R. Garcia