E.C. Cuff was formerly Head of the Department of Educational Studies at the Didsbury School of Education, Manchester Polytechnic. A.J. Dennis is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. D.W. Francis is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. W.W. Sharrock is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester.
1. Introduction Part 1: Founding Thinkers 2. Karl Marx 3. Max Weber 4.
Émile Durkheim Part 2: Sociology in the English-Speaking World 5. Consensus
and Conflict 6. Symbolic Interaction 7. Ethnomethodology Part 3: The
European Tradition 8. Western Marxism 9. Structuralism Part 4:
Post-Sociological Perspectives? 10. Poststructuralism: Abandoning the
certainties of meaning 11. Michel Foucault: Abandoning the certainties of
reason 12. Postmodernity: Abandoning grand theory Part 5: Contemporary
Trends 13. Back to Sociological Theory?: Reconciling theoretical
oppositions 14. From Class to Culture: Do we need new theory for new
societies? 15. Emancipatory Sociology: Stratification beyond class? 16.
Conclusion
