社会学理论

社会学理论，第二版是当代社会学辩论的生动且可访问的介绍。自1995年以来，借助理论发展的其他材料，这项实质上更新的工作是一个系统的全面文本，对社会学理论中不同立场的相对优点提出了明确的论点。在第二版中，约翰·斯科特（John Scott）重新排序了章节和章节部分，以了解社会学理论中的争论和融合的强烈叙述。

A consideration of the work of Talcott Parsons sets the scene for subsequent debates on neofunctionalist, symbolic interactionist, rational choice, and conflict theories, together with recent developments in structuralism and post-structuralism. This second edition has been re-cast and updated to give a fuller discussion of the syntheses produced by Anthony Giddens and Jürgen Habermas, tracing their lineage back to Parsons’s framework. It considers the various views of modern society depicted in these syntheses and it reviews the wider debates on modernity and post-modernity. The central argument of the book is that advances in sociological understanding arise from the synthesis of rival ideas, and it concludes with an exploration of those areas in which sociological theory is in need of further development.

New features of the second edition include:

• greater prominence for neofunctionalism in relation to earlier structural-functional theories
• discussion of the theoretical ideas of Pierre Bourdieu
•与结构主义理论有关的后结构主义理论思想的扩大覆盖范围
•与象征性互动主义的早期工作有关的民族方法论和对话分析的定位
• a stronger positioning of debates over modernity and post-modernity as extensions of general theoretical debates.

本文具有权威，全面和以完全可访问的风格书写，将对社会学理论的学生，研究人员，教师和专家具有很大的吸引力。