From the Book - Third edition.
Expanded table of contents
List of key concept glossary boxes
Introduction / Rob Stones
1. Karl Marx / Bob Jessop
After Marx: culture and politics in twentieth- and twenty-first century Marxism: Antonio Gramsci & Ernesto Laclau
2. Max Weber / Lawrence A. Scaff
3. Émile Durkheim / Edward A. Tiryakian
4. Georg Simmel / Patrick Watier
5. W.E.B. Du Bois / Reiland Rabaka
6. G.H. Mead / Filipe Carreira da Silva
7. Talcott Parsons / Robert Holton.
8. Robert K. Merton / Piotr Sztompka
After Merton: structural thinking in the twenty-first century: Ulrich Beck
9. Norbert Elias / Jason Hughes
10. Erving Goffman / Susie Scott
11. Harold Garfinkel / John Heritage
12. Louis Althusser / Ted Benton
After Althusser: state theory: Nicos Poulantzas & Bob Jessup
13. Jürgen Habermas / William Outhwaite
After Habermas: critical theory and recognition: Nancy Fraser & Axel Honneth
14. Pierre Bourdieu / Derek Robbins
After Bourdieu: adding morals and emotions to habitus: Andrew Sayer
15. Michel Foucault / Lawrence Barth
16. Dorothy E. Smith / Karin Widerberg
17. Stuart Hall / Michèle Barrett
18. Nancy J. Chodorow / Karin A. Martin
Before and after Chodrow: fruitful dialectics in feminist thought: Simone de Beauvoir & Carol Gilligan
19. Anthony Giddens / Craig Browne
After Giddens: social and system integration: Nicos Mouzelis
20. Michael Mann / Ralph Schroeder
Before Mann: the tradition of historical sociology: Barrington Moore & Theda Skocpol
21. Zygmunt Bauman / Tony Blackshaw
22. Arlie Russell Hochschild / Simon J. Williams
23. Bruno Latour / Steve Matthewman
24. Jeffrey C. Alexander / Jason L. Mast