Part One : Introduction -- A historical sketch of sociological theory: the early years -- A historical sketch of sociological theory: the later years -- Part Two : The major theories -- Structural functionalism, neofunctionalism, and the conflict theory alternative -- Varities of neo-Marxian sociological theory -- Symbolic interactionism -- Phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology -- Exchange theory and behavioral sociology -- Contemporary feminist theory -- Recent developments in sociological theory -- The emergence of a central problem in contemporary sociological theory -- Appendix : Metatheory and a metatheoretical schema for analyzing sociological theory

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