Illuminating Social Life: Classical and Contemporary Theory Revisited Book

PART ONE: CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
Introduction - Peter Kivisto
Working Longer, Living Less - John P Walsh and Anne Zacharias-Walsh
Understanding Marx through the Workplace Today
The Weberian Theory of Rationalization and the McDonaldization of Contemporary Society - George Ritzer
Surfing the Net for Community - Anne M Hornsby
A Durkheimian Analysis of Electronic Gatherings
Alcohol-Related Windows on Simmel's Social World - William J Staudenmeier Jr
PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY THEORIES AND THEIR CONNECTIONS TO THE CLASSICS
Introduction - Peter Kivisto
Criminalizing Transgressing Youth - Paul Colomy and Laura Ross Greiner
A Neofunctionalist Analysis of Institution Building
Why Do African-Americans Pay More for New Cars? A Structural Explanation - Christopher Prendergast
Critical Theory, Legitimation Crisis and the Deindustrialization of Flint, Michigan - Steven P Dandaneau
The Socially Constructed Body - Judith Lorber and Patricia Yancey Martin
Insights from Feminist Theory
Pretty Woman, Ugly Man - Julia O'Connell Davidson
Interpretivism and the Study of Prostitution
Goffman's Dramaturgical Sociology - Peter Kivisto and Dan Pittman
Personal Sales and Service in a Commodified World
The 'New' Means of Consumption - George Ritzer
A Postmodern Analysis
Globalization and Religious Fundamentalism - William H Swatos Jr