What is Social Theory?: The Philosophical Debates

1. Philosophy's Tutelage of Social Theory: A Parody of Profundity? Alan Sica (Pennsylvania State University).

2. Mapping Postmodern Theory: Robert J. Antonio (University of Kansas).

3. A Thesaurus of Experience: Maurice Natanson, Phenomenology and Social Theory: Mary F. Rogers (University of West Florida).

4. A Social Epistemology of the Structure-Agency Craze: From Content to Context: Steve Fuller (University of Durham).

5. Making Normative Soup with Non-normative Bones: Stephen Turner (University of South Florida).

6. Criteria for a Theory of Knowledge: Jennifer Croissant (University of Arizona).

7. Examples, Submerged Statements and the Neglected Application of Philosophy to Social Theory: Stanley Lieberson (Harvard University).

8. Loosening the Chains of Philosophical Reductionism: Steven Rytina (McGill University).

9. Social Order and Emergent Rationality: Michael Macy (Cornell University).

10. Theoretical Models: Sociology's Missing Links: John Skvoretz (University of South Carolina).

11. Sociological Models: Paul Humphreys (University of Virginia).

12. Culture and Social Structure: Peter Blau (University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill).

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