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100 1 $aPowers, Charles H.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83122046
245 10 $aMaking sense of social theory :$ba practical introduction /$cCharles H. Powers.
260 $aLanham, MD :$bRowman & Littlefield,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $axi, 243 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gPt. I.$tUnderstanding What Theory Is About -- $g1.$tEmbracing the Subject: Becoming a Better Social Scientist by Learning More about Sociological Theory -- $g2.$tAxioms and Principles: Theory Is Not as Hard as It Sounds! -- $g3.$tSociological Theory and the Scientific Method: Science Is Supposed to Test and Ultimately Transform Theory -- $gPt. II.$tSociology's Most Prominent Founding Figures -- $g4.$tThe Historical Context for a Science of Society: A Healthy Regard for the High Cost of Chaos -- $g5.$tEmile Durkheim and the Birth of Scientific Sociology -- $g6.$tMarkets versus Other Forms of Organization: The Intellectual Backdrop of Early Sociology -- $g7.$tKarl Marx and the Organization of Resistance from Below: Recognizing the Opposing Interests of Different Groups -- $g8.$tMax Weber and the Primacy of Values: Moving Past Economic Determinism -- $g9.$tAgency in the Work of George Herbert Mead: Individuals Working Together to Produce Social Reality -- $g10.$tChicago Community Studies and the Birth of Urban Ethnography -- $gPt. II.$tMaking Sense of Sociology's Theoretical Paradigms - Grasping the Basics -- $g11.$tTalcott Parsons and Structural-Functionalism Made Easy: Systems Change When Needs Are Not Met -- $g12.$tConflict Theory: Always Ask Who Benefits -- $g13.$tSymbolic Interactionism in Everyday Life: People Make a Difference -- $g14.$tExchange Theory in the Background: Everyone Has Motives -- $gPt. IV.$tTaking Stock of Sociological Theory - A Recap -- $g15.$tSociology as a Coherent Discipline Rather Than an Incoherent Discipline: Keeping the Whole Forest in View -- $tInvitation to Further Dialogue -- $tCompendium of Axioms: Twelve Commonly Made Assumptions Helping Us to Make Predictions -- $tCompendium of Principles: Eighteen Testable Laws for Sociology.
650 0 $aSociology$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124205
650 0 $aSociology$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86006205
650 0 $aSchools of sociology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86004605
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip049/2003020934.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hHM435$i.P69 2004