Sociological theory today

Jonathan H. Turner

1-17

What makes sciences "scientific?"

Stephan Fuchs

21-35

Formal theory

Guillermina Jasso

37-68

Computational approaches to sociological theorizing

Kathleen M. Carley

69-83

The critical dimension in sociological theory

Craig Calhoun

85-111

Metatheorizing in sociology

the basic parameters and the potential contributions of postmodernism

George Ritzer, Shanyang Zhao, Jim Murphy

113-131

The strong program in cultural theory

elements of a structural hermeneutics

Jeffrey C. Alexander, Philip E. Smith

135-150

Postmodern social theory

George Ritzer, Douglas Goodman

151-169

Culture and identity

Michele Lamont

171-185

Alley art

can we... see... at last, the end of ontology?

Judith R. Blau

187-208

Traditional symbolic interactionism, role theory, and structural symbolic interactionism

the road to identity theory

Sheldon Stryker

211-231

Role theory

Ralph H. Turner

233-254

The emotional/relational world

shame and the social bond

Thomas J. Scheff

255-268

Action theory

Hans Joas, Jens Beckert

269-285

Accounts of conduct in interaction

interruption, overlap, and turn-taking

Emanuel A. Schegloff

287-321

Inequality, status, and the construction of status beliefs

Cecilia L. Ridgeway

323-340

Macrostructural theory

Peter M. Blau

343-352

The return of grand theory

Jonathan H. Turner, David E. Boyns

353-378

Systems theory

Kenneth D. Bailey

379-401

Sociobiological theorizing

evolutionary sociology

Joseph Lopreato

405-433

Evolutionary theorizing

Stephen K. Sanderson

435-455

Sociological Marxism

Michael Burawoy

459-486

Weberian theory today

the public face

Alan Sica

487-507

Conflict theory and interaction rituals

the microfoundations of conflict theory

Jörg Rössel, Randall Collins

509-531

The enduring vitality of the resource mobilization theory of social movements

John C. Mccarthy, Mayer N. Zald

533-565

Historical analysis of political processes

Charles Tilly

567-588

World-systems theorizing

Christopher Chase-Dunn

589-612

Theoretical understandings of gender

a third of a century of feminist thought in sociology

Janet Saltzman Chafetz

613-631

Social rationality versus rational egoism

Siegwart Lindenberg

635-668

Comparison theory

Guillermina Jasso

669-698

Exchange and power

issues of structure and agency

Karen S. Cook

699-719