Essays in Theory Cumulation
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1;Front Cover;1
2;Sociology Since Midcentury: Essays in Theory Cumulation;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Preface;10
6;Introduction;12
7;Part 1: IThe Advance of Historical Sociology;22
7.1;Chapter 1. The Empirical Validity of the Conflict Tradition;24
7.1.1;OUTPOSTS OF A NATURALISE REALISM;29
7.1.2;KAUTILYA, THUCYDIDES, MACHIAVELLI;30
7.1.3;HOBBES AND VOLTAIRE;32
7.1.4;THE MARXIAN SYNTHESIS;35
7.1.5;WEBER AND GERMAN HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY;48
7.1.6;CONCLUSION;54
7.2;Chapter 2. Wallerstein's World-System;56
7.3;Chapter 3. The Chain of Modernization;68
7.4;Chapter 4. Geopolitics and Revolution;74
7.5;Chapter 5. Long-Term Social Change and the Territorial Power of States;82
7.5.1;THE ORGANIZATIONAL BASES OF MILITARY POWER;86
7.5.2;TERRITORIAL CONFIGURATIONS;89
7.5.3;CONCLUSION;115
8;Part II: Structuralism and Conflict;118
8.1;Chapter 6. Lévi-Strauss's Structural History;120
8.1.1;CONFLICT, ALLIANCE, AND EXCHANGE;126
8.1.2;THE INCEST TABOO AS EXTERNALLY IMPOSED;128
8.1.3;IDEAL STRATEGIES AND MATERIAL REALITIES;129
8.1.4;BASIC ELEMENTS: RESIDENCE AND LINEAGE;132
8.1.5;HARMONIC AND DISHARMONIC SYSTEMS;134
8.1.6;THREE MARRIAGE STRATEGIES;135
8.1.7;SYMMETRICAL MARRIAGE AND RESTRICTED EXCHANGE;135
8.1.8;ASYMMETRICAL MARRIAGE AND GENERALIZED EXCHANGE;136
8.1.9;WHY ONE ROUTE RATHER THAN ANOTHER?;136
8.1.10;LONG-TERM CHANGES;137
8.1.11;THE STRUCTURALIST THEORY OF PREHISTORY;139
8.1.12;A CONTEMPORARY PAYOFF;141
8.2;Chapter 7. Three Faces of Cruelty: Toward a Comparative Sociology of Violence;144
8.2.1;VIOLENCE AND GROUP STRUCTURE;145
8.2.2;I. FEROCIOUSNESS: THE VIOLENCE OF HUMAN AND ANIMAL;148
8.2.3;II. CALLOUSNESS AND BUREAUCRATIZATION;163
8.2.4;III. ASCETICISM AND ENFORCEDCOMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP;166
8.2.5;CONCLUSION;168
9;Part III: Sociology of Education: The Cutting Edge;170
9.1;Chapter 8. Class, Codes, and Control;172
9.2;Chapter 9. Cultural Capitalism and Symbolic Violence;184
9.3;Chapter 10. Schooling in Capitalist America;194
9.4;Chapter 11. Crises and Declines in Credential Systems;202
9.4.1;CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND POLITICAL MOBILIZATION;203
9.4.2;THE MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITY CRISIS;206
9.4.3;EDUCATIONAL EXPANSION AND CRISISIN EARLY MODERN EUROPE;215
9.4.4;EDUCATIONAL CYCLES AND POLITICAL-ECONOMIC UPHEAVALS;221
10;Part IV: Breakthroughs in Microsociology;228
10.1;Chapter 12. Three Stages of Erving Goffman;230
10.1.1;Durkheimian Social Anthropology;238
10.1.2;Neorationalism and Game Theory;249
10.1.3;Social Epistemology and Multileveled Realities;257
10.2;Chapter 13. The Language-Game of Power;266
10.3;Chapter 14. The Microfoundations of Macrosociology;272
10.3.1;THE TIME-SPACE TABLE;273
10.3.2;MICROTRANSLATION AS A STRATEGY;276
10.3.3;THE MICROCRITIQUE OF RATIONALISTIC COGNITIVE AND EXCHANGE MODELS;279
10.3.4;SOCIAL STRUCTURE AS MICROREPETITION IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD;283
10.3.5;A THEORY OF INTERACTION RITUAL CHAINS;287
10.3.6;INTERACTIONS AS MARKETPLACES FORCULTURAL AND EMOTIONAL RESOURCES;292
10.3.7;MACROSTRUCTURAL EFFECTS;298
10.3.8;CONCLUSION;301
10.3.9;SUMMARY;302
11;Part V: The Old Guardand the New;306
11.1;Chapter 15. Merlon's Functionalism;308
11.2;Chapter 16. Postindustrialism and Technocracy;316
11.3;Chapter 17. Touraine's System;320
11.4;Chapter 18. Gouldner's Dialectics;326
11.5;Chapter 19. Blau's Macro theory;334
11.6;Chapter 20. Sociology Past and Future;344
12;References;352
13;Index;364
