The Nature and Types of Sociological Theory | Don Martindale | Taylor

ABSTRACT

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |2 pages

PART ONE Sociology and the Sciences

chapter 1|26 pages

The Road to Sociology

chapter 2|20 pages

The Birth of the Social Sciences

part |2 pages

PART TWO Positivistic Organicism

chapter 3|27 pages

The Social and Philosophical Origins of Positivistic Organicism

chapter 4|21 pages

The Classical Period of Positivistic Organicism

chapter 5|26 pages

The Transformation and Eventual Disintegration ofPositivistic Organicism

part |2 pages

PART THREE Conflict Theory: The Paradox of Maturity

chapter 6|23 pages

The Foundations of Conflict Theory

chapter 7|26 pages

Major Conflict Ideologies of the Nineteenth Century

chapter 8|33 pages

Sociological Conflict Theories

part |2 pages

PART FOUR The Formal School of Sociological Theory

chapter 9|22 pages

The Philosophical Foundations of Sociological Formalism

chapter 10|34 pages

The Neo-Kantian Branch of Sociological Formalism

chapter 11|16 pages

The Phenomenological Branch of Sociological Formalism

part |2 pages

PART FIVE Social Behaviorism

chapter 12|20 pages

The Conceptual Foundations of Social Behaviorism

chapter 13|34 pages

The Pluralistic Behavioral Branch of Social Behaviorism

chapter 14|37 pages

Symbolic Interactionism

chapter 15|37 pages

The Social-Action Branch of Social Behaviorism

chapter 16|26 pages

Further Developments in Social-Action Theory

part |2 pages

PART SIX Sociological Functionalism

chapter 17|23 pages

The Nature and Origins of Sociological Functionalism

chapter 18|37 pages

Macro-Functionalism in Contemporary Sociology

chapter 19|22 pages

Micro-Functionalis: Group Dynamics

part |2 pages

PART SEVEN Conclusion

chapter 20|18 pages

Toward Theoretical Integration