Social Theory as a Vocation: Genres of Theory Work in Sociology (Hardcover)

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Social Theory as a Vocation

Part I Custodial Theory Work

1 Note on Park, The Crowd and the Public
2 Max Weber's 1908 Note Regarding Simmel
3 Review of the Variorum Edition of Max Weber's Economy and Society
4 Taking the Measure of Auguste Comte
5 emile Durkheim, Univocalist Manque
6 Robert K. Merton On and In Ambivalence
7 Revisiting Georg Simmel
8 Simmel's Stranger and His Followers
9 Simmel and Parsons Reconstructed

Part II Heuristic Theory Work: Internal to the Discipline

10 The Concept of Cultural Integration
11 The Organism Metaphor in Sociology
12 The Concept of Rationality: From Kant to Weber
13 Rationality and Freedom, Weber and Beyond
14 Putting Voluntarism Back into a Voluntaristic Theory of Action
15 "Ambiguity and Modernity": Engaging a Serendipitous Problem
16 Somatic Elements in Social Conflict
17 Reconfiguring Ethiopia's Nationhood in a Global Era

Part III Heuristic Theory Work External to the Discipline

18 Simmel as a Resource for Sociological Metatheory
19 Sociology after MacIntyre
20 Images and Assumptions in a Scholarly Domain: Ethiopian Studies
21 Missed Opportunities as a Diagnostic Issue:Ethiopia, 1960?2005
22 A Problem of Collective Identity
23 Modernity and Its Endless Discontents
24 Crises in Liberal Education

Appendixes

A Syllabus: American Sociological Theory, 1900?1980
B Syllabus: Perspectives on Modern Social Theory
C Syllabus: The Forms and Functions of Social Knowledge
D Syllabus: Organizations of the Social Sciences
E Organizing a Practicum in Social Theory

References

Index