Contemporary sociological theory

List of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Micro-Sociological Analysis: Introduction to Part I. 1. The Phenomenology of the Social World: Alfred Schutz. 2. The Social Construction of Reality: Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann. 3. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Erving Goffman. 4. Symbolic Interactionism: Herbert Blumer. Part II: Exchange and Rationality: Introduction to Part II. 5. Social Behavior as Exchange: George C. Homans. 6. Exchange and Power in Social Life: Peter M. Blau. 7. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital: James S. Coleman. 8. Foundations for a Theory of Collective Decisions: James S. Coleman. 9. The Logic of Collective Action: Mancur Olson. Part III: Institutional Analysis: Introduction to Part III. 10. Limits of Steering: Niklas Luhmann. 11. Coercion, Capital, and European States: Charles Tilly. 12. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields: Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell. Part IV: The Sociological Theory of Michel Foucault: Introduction to Part IV. 13. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception: Michel Foucault. 14. Truth and Power: Michel Foucault. 15. Discipline and Punish: Michel Foucault. Part V: The Sociological Theory of Anthony Giddens: Introduction to Part V. 16. Some New Rules of Sociological Method: Anthony Giddens. 17. Agency, Structure: Anthony Giddens. 18. The Consequences of Modernity: Anthony Giddens. Part VI: The Sociological Theory of Pierre Bourdieu: Introduction to Part VI. 19. Social Space and Symbolic Space Pierre Bourdieu. 20. Structures, Habitus, Practices: Pierre Bourdieu. 21. The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed: Pierre Bourdieu. Part VII: Race, Gender, and Difference: Introduction to Part VII. 22. The Conceptual Practices of Power: Dorothy E. Smith. 23. Black Feminist Epistemology: Patricia Hill Collins. 24. Black Skin, White Masks: Frantz Fanon. 25. The Paradoxes of Integration: Orlando Patterson. Part VIII: The Sociological Theory of Jurgen Habermas: Introduction to Part VIII. 26. Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere: Jurgen Habermas. 27. The Tasks of a Critical Theory of Society: Jurgen Habermas. 28. Theory and Practice: Jurgen Habermas. Part IX: Modernity and Post-Modernity: Introduction to Part IX. 29. The Social Constraint towards Self-constraint: Norbert Elias. 30. A Sociological Theory of Postmodernity of Postmodernity: Zygmunt Bauman. 31. Describing the Future: Niklas Luhmann.