Paper Title: Contemporary Sociological Theory
1. Introducing Contemporary Sociological Theory
a. Origin and growth of contemporary sociological theory
b. Nature of paradigm formation in sociology
2. Talcott Parsons
a. Structural Functionalism
b. Action theory
c. System theory
3. Robert K. Merton
a. Codification of functionalism
b. Middle range theory
c. Anomie and Social Structure
4. Frankfurt School
a. Critical School: Horkhheimer Herbert Marcuse
b. Gargon Habermas: Communicative action theory, social change, modernity and legitimation crisis
5. Symbolic Interaction theory Dramaturgy
a. Herbert Blumer: Interpretation and methodology
b. George H. Mead: Symbolic interaction theory
c. Erving Goffman: Dramaturgy and the interaction order
6. Phenomenology
a. Edmund Husserl and philosophical roots of phenomenology
b. Schutz and phenomenological sociology
c. Harold Garfinkel and ethno-methodology
7. Exchange Theory
a. George Homans: Properties propositions of exchange theory
b. Peter Blau: Key concepts and proposition of exchange theory
c. James Coleman: Theory and rational choice
Books Recommended:
1. Ritzer, George. Modern Sociological Theory, 2008
2. Collins, Randall. Four Sociological Traditions, 1998
3. Zeitlin, Irving M. Ideology and the Development of Sociological Theory, 2001
4. Parsons, Talcott. The System Theory, 1952
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