Social Theory and Sociology: The Classics and Beyond

Part I.

2. The Centrality of the Classics. (Jeffrey Alexandera).

3. Lego quia inutile: An alternative justification for the classics. (Gianfranco Poggi).

Part II.

4. Three ideologies or one? The pseudo-battle of modernity. (Immanuel Wallerstein).

5. Whose Classics? Which reading? Interpretation and cultural difference in the canonization of sociological theory. (Craig Calhoun).

6. Crises of modernity. Political sociology in historical contexts. (Peter Wagner).

Part III.

7. Measurement and the two cultures of sociology. (John R. Hall).

8. Marxism after communism. (Erik Olin Wright).

9. Standpoint epistemology (a feminist version): How social disadvantage creates epistemic advantage. (Sandra Harding).

10. The centrality of culture in social theory. Fundamental clues from Weber and Durkheim. (Anne E. Kane).

Part IV.

11. Towards a reflexive sociology. A workshop with Pierre Bourdieu. (Loic J. D. Wacquant).

12. Homo sociologicus: Do we need him/her? (Peter Abell).

13. Science and technology studies and the renewal of social theory. (Steve Woolgar).

14. Theory then/theory now (or, 'The sociology is about to begin, said the man with the loudspeaker') (Alan Sica).

Index.