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020			_a9781612056418
082			_a301.09 _bBUE
100			_aBuechler, Steven M.
245			_aCritical sociology / _cSteven M. Buechler
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aNew York : _bParadigm Publishers, _c2016.
300			_a307p.
505			_aSOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES How to Think Sociologically Sociology and Modernity - Thinking Sociologically - Sociology's Double Critique........ The Legacy of the Discipline Scientific Sociology - Humanistic Sociology - Critical Sociology - Conclusion........ Toward a Critical Sociology The Frankfurt School Revisited - Habermas's Contributions - Conclusion........ POWER AND DOMINATION A Late Capitalist World Marx's Analysis of Capitalism - From Liberal to Advanced Capitalism - Crisis Tendencies in Advanced Capitalism - Capitalism Unbound........ The State of the State Dimensions of the State - The Power Structure Debate - States in Decline........ A Mass-Mediated World Culture - Culture Meets Critical Sociology - The Political Economy of Mass Media - News, Propaganda, and Journalism - An All-Consuming Culture - The Social-Media Complex - A Note on Domination and Resistance........ INEQUALITY AND DIFFERENCE The Crucible of Class Marx's Model of Class Formation - Class or Stratification - Contemporary Class Analysis - Enriching the Story - Further Complications........ The Social Construction of Race What Is Race - Race vs. Ethnicity - Forms of Discrimination - Racial Formation - The Construction of Whiteness........ Gendered Selves and Worlds A Little History - The Sex/Gender System - Boyz II Guys - Feminist Frameworks - New Permutations........ SELF AND SOCIETY The Emergence of the Individual From "We" to "I" - Too Much of a Good Thing - A Note on Adolescence - Individualism and Its Discontents - Habits of the Heart........ How We Become Who We Are Cooley's Contributions - Mead's Synthesis - Symbolic Interactionism - Identity Theory........ People as Reflexive Actors - Conclusion........ The Sociology of Everyday Life Phenomenological Sociology - The Social Construction of Reality - The Ethnomethodological Turn - Social Life as Drama - The Self as Project, Commodity, and Story........ PATTERNS OF CHANGE The Challenge of Globalization The Rise and Fall of Modernization Theory - The Global World System - Globalization: What's New - Recent World System Dynamics - Globalization: An Assessment........ The Role of Social Movements Sociology and Social Movements: Siblings of Modernity - Understanding Social Movements - Social Movements and Progressive Politics - Tea Partiers and Occupiers - The Global Scene- Theorizing Global Activism........ The Case for Democracy The Limits on Democracy - Toward a Richer Democracy - Movements (and Elections) = Democracy - Social Movements as Incubators of Democratic Politics - Sociology and Democracy........
650			_aCritical sociology
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