Contemporary Sociological Theory

Craig Calhoun is University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University, USA and former Director of the London School of Economics and President of the Social Science Research Council.Joseph Gerteis is Professor of Sociology and co-Director of the American Mosaic Project at the University of Minnesota, USA. His research focuses on race, ethnicity, and political culture. James Moody is Professor of Sociology at Duke University, USA, and Director of the Duke Network Analysis Center. His work focuses on the network foundations of social cohesion and diffusion. Steven Pfaff is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, USA. His research focuses on religion, politics and social change. Indermohan Virk is Executive Director of the Patten Foundation and the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.

• Notes on the Editors ixAcknowledgements xGeneral Introduction 1Part I Symbolic Action 27Introduction to Part I 291 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life) 36Erving Goffman2 Symbolic Interactionism (from Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method) 51Herbert Blumer3 Interaction Ritual Chains (from Interaction Ritual Chains) 62Randall CollinsPart II Structure and Agency 77Introduction to Part II 794 A Theory of Group Solidarity (from Principles of Group Solidarity) 88Michael Hechter5 Metatheory: Explanation in Social Science (from Foundations of Social Theory) 100James S. Coleman6 Catnets (from Notes on the Constituents of Social Structure) 112Harrison White7 Some New Rules of Sociological Method (from New Rules For Sociological Method) 123Anthony GiddensPart III Institutions 129Introduction to Part III 1318 Economic Embeddedness 136Mark Granovetter9 The Iron Cage Revisited 145Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. PowellPart IV Power and Inequality 161Introduction to Part IV 16310 The Power Elite (from The Power Elite) 172C. Wright Mills11 Durable Inequality (from Durable Inequality) 179Charles Tilly12 Power: A Radical View (from Power: A Radical View) 186Steven Lukes13 Societies as Organized Power Networks (from The Sources of Social Power, Vol I. A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760) 196Michael MannPart V The Sociological Theory of Michel Foucault 213Introduction to Part V 21514 The History of Sexuality (from The History of Sexuality, Vol I: An Introduction) 220Michel Foucault15 Discipline and Punish (from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison) 229Michel FoucaultPart VI The Sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu 237Introduction to Part VI 23916 Social Space and Symbolic Space (from “Social Space and Symbolic Space: Introduction to a Japanese Reading of Distinction”) 248Pierre Bourdieu17 Structures, Habitus, Practices (from The Logic of Practice) 257Pierre Bourdieu18 The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed 270Pierre Bourdieu19 Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field (from Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field) 286Pierre BourdieuPart VII Race, Gender, and Intersectionality 297Introduction to Part VII 29920 The Theory of Racial Formation (from Racial Formation in the United States) 308Michael Omi and Howard Winant21 Intellectual Schools and the Atlanta School (from The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology) 318Aldon D. Morris22 The Paradoxes of Integration (from The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in Americas “Racial” Crisis) 329Orlando Patterson23 The Conceptual Practices of Power (from The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge) 337Dorothy E. Smith24 Black Feminist Epistemology (from Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment) 345Patricia Hill Collins25 Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex 354Kimberle Crenshaw26 Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research 363Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree27 The Politics of Erased Migrations 373Rocio R. GarciaPart VIII The Sociological Theory of Jürgen Habermas 385Introduction to Part VIII 38728 Modernity: An Unfinished Project (from Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity) 395Jürgen Habermas29 The Rationalization of the Lifeworld (from The Theory of Communicative Action Volume 2: Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason) 401Jürgen Habermas30 Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere (from Between Facts and Norms: Contribution to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy) 417Jürgen HabermasPart IX Modernity 431Introduction to Part IX 43331 The Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint (from The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners and State Formation and Civilization) 439Norbert Elias32 We Have Never Been Modern (from We Have Never Been Modern) 449Bruno Latour33 The Civil Sphere (from The Civil Sphere) 462Jeffrey C. Alexander34 Addressing Recognition Gaps: Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality (from American Sociological Review) 472Michèle LamontPart X Crisis and Change 487Introduction to Part X 48935 The Modern World-System in Crisis (from World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction) 498Immanuel Wallerstein36 Conceptualizing Simultaneity 510Peggy Levitt and Nina Glick Schiller37 Nationalism (from Nationalism) 519Craig Calhoun38 The End May Be Nigh, But For Whom? (from Does Capitalism Have a Future?) 529Michael MannIndex 544