TY - BOOK AU - Ritzer, George TI - Frontiers of Social Theory: The New Syntheses SN - 9788131609187 U1 - 301.01 PY - 2018/// CY - Jaipur PB - Rawat Publication KW - Sociology - Methodology N1 - 1. The Current Status of Sociological Theory: The New Syntheses Part 1. New Life in Some Traditional social and Sociological Theories 2. Neofunctionalism Today: Reconstructing a Theoretical Tradition 3. Conflict Theory and the Advance of Macro-Historical Sociology 4. The Decline of the Grand Narrative of Emancipatory Modernity: Crisis or Renewal in Neo-marxian Theory? 5. Symbolic Interactionism in the Post-Blumerian Age 6. Exchange Theory: A blueprint for Structure and Process Part 2. Liveliness of More Recent Social and Sociological Theories 7. The World as It Happens: Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis 8. The comparative Advantages of Rational Choice Theory 9. The Uses of French Structuralisms in Sociology 10. The Postmodern Turn: Positions, Problems, and Prospects 11. Betwixt and Between: Recent Cultural Sociology in Europe and the United States 12. Feminist Sociological Theory: The Near-Future Prospects Part 3. Overviews of Social and Sociological Theory 13. Micro-Macro Linkage in Sociological Theory: applying a Metatheoretical Tool 14. The Past, Present, and Future of Theory in American Sociology 15. The History and Politics of Recent Sociological Theory ER -