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Zusatztext A very welcome text ... in many ways more integrated than most theory texts ... I highly recommend this book as a supplement to theory courses. As a broad overview! it will be a most useful addition to the syllabus. Further! the text is exceedingly well written ... The tone of Four Sociological Traditions is highly optimistic and! I feel! helps to foster excitement for the subject. This is a fresh and much needed text. Klappentext A collection of essays from the great thinkers of sociology to accompany Collins's Four Sociological Traditions.. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays from the great thinkers of sociology to accompany Collins's Four Sociological Traditions.. I: THE CONFLICT TRADITION; History as Class Struggle; Materialism and the Theory of Ideology; The Origin of Modern Capitalism; Power Divisions as the Basis of Class Conflict; A Theory of Inequality; A Conflict Theory of Stratification; II: THE RATIONAL UTILITARIAN TRADITION; Social Exchange Among Equals and Unequals; Bounded Rationality and Satisficing; Tacit Coordination; Public Goods and the Free Rider Problem; The Realization of Effective Norms; III: THE DURKHEIMIAN TRADITION; Pre-contractual Solidarity; Social Rituals and Sacred Objects; The Circulation of Sentiments, Magic, and Money; Kinship as Sexual Property Exchange; The Nature of Deference and Demeanor; Social Control in Science; Grid and Group; IV: THE MICRO-INTERACTIONIST TRADITION; Society is in the Mind; Thought as Internalized Conversation; Symbolic Interactionism; The Ethnomethodology of the Human Reality Constructor; Frame Analysis
