The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory / Blackwell Companions to Sociology (PDF)

Contributors. Introduction: A New Agenda for Social Theory? (Bryan S. Turner, National University of Singapore). Part I: Foundations. 1. The Foundations of Social Theory (Gerard Delanty, University of Sussex). 2. Contemporary Sociological Theory: Post-Parsonian Developments (John Holmwood, University of Birmingham). 3. Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Patrick Baert, University of Cambridge and Fernando Rubio Dominguez, University of Cambridge). Part II: Actions, Actors, and Systems. 4. Theories of Social Action (Rob Stones, University of Essex). 5. Functionalism and Social Systems Theory (Giuseppe Sciortino, University of Trento). 6. Structuralism and Poststructuralism (David Chaffee, Flinders University and Charles Lemert, Wesleyan University, CT). 7. Actor Network Theory and Material Semiotics (John Law, Lancaster University). 8. Ethnomethodology (Richard A. Hilbert, Gustavus Adolphus College). 9. Rational Choice Theory (Raymond Boudon, University of Paris--Sorbonne). Part III: Perspectives on Social and Cultural Analysis. 10. Pragmatism and Symbolic Interactionism (Jack Barbalet, University of Leicester). 11. Phenomenology (Michael G. Flaherty, Eckerd College). 12. Feminist Theory (Mary Evans, Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science). 13. Postmodern Social Theory (Jan Pakulski, University of Tasmania). 14. Social Constructionism (Darin Weinberg, University of Cambridge). 15. Conversation Analysis and Social Theory (John Heritage, University of California, Los Angeles). 16. Globalization Theory (John Boli, Emory University and Frank J. Lechner, Emory University). Part IV: Sociology and the Social Sciences. 17. Genetics and Social Theory (Oonagh Corrigan, University of Plymouth). 18. Economic Sociology (Richard Swedberg, Cornell University). 19. Cultural Sociology (Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University and Isaac Reed, University of Colorado). 20. Historical Sociology (Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia). 21. The Sociology of Religion

BRYAN S. TURNER is the Presidential Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mellon Committee for the Study of Religion, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York and Director of the Institute for Religion Politics and Society at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne). He was the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor at Wellesley College (2009-10). His most recent publications are Religion and Modern Society (Cambridge 2011) and The Religious and the Political (Cambridge 2013). With Oscar Salemink, he edited the Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia (2014). He is the founding editor with John O'Neill of the Journal of Classical Sociology (Sage) and with Irfan Ahmad the Journal of Religious and Political Practice (Routledge). He received the Max Planck Award in 2015 for research on secularization and modernity: social and religious pluralism, and is a Guest Professor at the University of Potsdam.

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