Handbook of sociological theory / edited by Jonathan H. Turner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Sociological Theory Today / Jonathan H. Turner -- 2. What Makes Sciences "Scientific?" / Stephan Fuchs -- 3. Formal Theory / Guillermina Jasso -- 4. Computational Approaches to Sociological Theorizing / Kathleen M. Carley -- 5. The Critical Dimension in Sociological Theory / Craig Calhoun -- 6. Metatheorizing in Sociology: The Basic Parameters and the Potential Contributions of Postmodernism / George Ritzer, Shanyang Zhao and Jim Murphy -- 7. The Strong Program in Cultural Theory: Elements of a Structural Hermeneutics / Jeffrey Alexander and Philip Smith -- 8. Postmodern Social Theory / George Ritzer and Douglas Goodman -- 9. Culture and Identity / Michele Lamont -- 10. Alley Art: Can We ... See ... at Last, the End of Ontology? / Judith R. Blau -- 11. Traditional Symbolic Interactionism, Role Theory, and Structural Symbolic Interactionism: The Road to Identity Theory / Sheldon Stryker -- 12. Role Theory / Ralph H. Turner --

13. The Emotional/Relational World: Shame and the Social Bond / Thomas J. Scheff -- 14. Action Theory / Hans Joas and Jens Beckert -- 15. Accounts of Conduct in Interaction: Interruption, Overlap, and Turn-Taking / Emanuel A. Schegloff -- 16. Inequality, Status, and the Construction of Status Beliefs / Cecilia L. Ridgeway -- 17. Macrostructural Theory / Peter M. Blau -- 18. The Return of Grand Theory / Jonathan H. Turner and David E. Boyns -- 19. Systems Theory / Kenneth D. Bailey -- 20. Sociobiological Theorizing: Evolutionary Sociology / Joseph Lopreato -- 21. Evolutionary Theorizing / Stephen K. Sanderson -- 22. Sociological Marxism / Michael Burawoy and Erik Olin Wright -- 23. Weberian Theory Today: The Public Face / Alan Sica -- 24. Conflict Theory and Interaction Rituals: The Microfoundations of Conflict Theory / Jorg Rossel and Randall Collins -- 25. Resource Mobilization Theory: Vigorous or Outmoded? / John D. McCarthy and Mayer N. Zald --

26. Historical Analysis of Political Processes / Charles Tilly -- 27. World-Systems Theory / Christopher Chase-Dunn -- 28. Theoretical Understandings of Gender: A Third of a Century of Feminist Thought in Sociology / Janet Saltzman Chafetz -- 29. Social Rationality versus Rational Egoism / Siegwart Lindenberg -- 30. Comparison Theory / Guillermina Jasso -- 31. Exchange and Power: Issues of Structure and Agency / Karen S. Cook and Eric R. W. Rice.