Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond, 2nd Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

1. A Timeless Order and its Achievement: Structuralism and Genetic Structuralism

2. The Biological Metaphor: Functionalism and Neo-functionalism

3. The Enigma of Everyday Life: Symbolic Interactionism, the Dramaturgical Approach and Ethnomethodology

4. The Invasion of Economic Man: From Rational Choice Theory to the New Institutionalism

5. As Sociology meets History: Giddens’s Structuration Theory and Historical Sociology

6. The History of the Present: Foucault’s Archaeology and Genealogy

7. The Spread of Reason: Habermas’s Critical Theory and Beyond

8. A Brave New World?: Current Trends in Social Theory

9. Conclusion: Social Theory for the Twenty-First Century