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Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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This Handbook provides the hidden common threads that tie
sociological inquiry together and featuring eminent scholars, it
separates itself from its predecessors in substance and
organization. Rather than rehashing old debates or longingly gazing
at the past, this book presents sociologists with new ways of
conceptualizing the organization and presentation of sociological
theory. At the heart of this Handbook's vision is the twin goals of
making theory a viable enterprise by reconceptualizing how we teach
theory and keeping theory closely tied to its empirical
applications. Three strategies are offered: (1) Elucidating how
classic issues like integration or interaction are interrogated
today; (2) Presenting a coherent vision of the social levels of
reality that theorists work on such as communities, groups, and the
self as well as how the coherence of these levels speaks to the
macro-micro link; and, (3) Theorizing the social world rather than
celebrating theorists or theories; that is, one can look at how
theory is used holistically to understand the constraints the
social world places on our lived experience or the dynamics of
social change. Hence, in the second decade of the 21st century, it
has become clear that sociology is at a crossroads as the number of
theorists and amount of theory available is increasingly
unmanageable and unknowable by the vast majority of professionals
and students. As such, this Handbook of Contemporary Sociological
Theory presents the novice and the expert with the a roadmap for
traversing this crossroad and building a more coherent, robust, and
cumulative sociology.
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