Illuminating Social Life Classical and Contemporary Theory Revisited

About the Editor 000 Preface 000 PART I: Classical Sociological Theory 000 Introduction 000 Peter Kivisto 1. Working Longer, Living Less: Understanding Marx Through the Workplace Today 000 John P. Walsh and Anne Zacharias-Walsh Marx?s Theory of Capital 000 The Return of the 12-Hour Day 000 Capital as Logic 000 Conclusion 000 2. The Weberian Theory of Rationalization and the McDonaldization of Contemporary Society 000 George Ritzer Efficiency 000 Calculability 000 Predictability 000 Replacing People With Nonhuman Technologies 000 The Irrationality of Rationality 000 Conclusion 000 3. Surfing the Net for Community: A Durkheimian Analysis of Electronic Gatherings 000 Anne M. Hornsby Chapter Organization 000 Background on the Net and Electronic Gatherings 000 Electronic Gatherings as Durkheimian Societies 000 Do Electronic Gatherings Represent the Emergence of a Third Type of Durkheimian Society? 000 Conclusion 000 4. Alcohol-Related Windows on Simmel?s Social World 000 William J. Staudenmeier, Jr. Alcohol, Conflict, and Change in America 000 Drinking Places 000 Interaction in Taverns 000 Some Contemporary Drinking Problems 000 Conclusion 000 Part II: Contemporary Theories and Their Connections to the Classics 000 Introduction 000 Peter Kivisto 5. Criminalizing Transgressing Youth: A Neofunctionalist Analysis of Institution Building 000 Paul Colomy and Laura Ross Greiner Neofunctionalism 000 Identifying a Problem: Making Street Violence Visible 000 Attributing Blame for the Problem: A New?Breed? of Transgressing Adolescent and the Juvenile Justice System 000 Fixing the Problem: Creating and Mobilizing Support for the Youthful Offender System 000 Conclusion 000 6. Why Do African Americans Pay More for New Cars? A Structural Explanation 000 Christopher Prendergast Structural Explanation in Sociology 000 Some Background Information 000 Car Price Mystery 000 Bargaining Power, Capital, and Dependency 000 The Contexts of Dealer Dependency 000 The Social Structure of Dealer Dependency 000 From Both Sides Now: The Bargaining Process 000 Loose Ends 000 Conclusion 000 Postscript 000 7. Critical Theory, Legitimation Crisis, and the Deindustrialization of Flint, Michigan 000 Steven P. Dandaneau What Is Critical Theory (Doing in Flint)? 000 Habermas and Legitimation Crisis 000 Capitalism in Flint 000 Habermas?s Theory of Legitimation Crisis: Systems Crisis 000 Habermas?s Theory of Legitimation Crisis: The Lifeworld 000 Conclusion 000 8. The Socially Constructed Body: Insights From Feminist Theory 000 Judith Lorber and Patricia Yancey Martin How Bodies Matter: Appearance and Success 000 The Social Construction of Gendered Bodies 000 Gendered Bodies and Social Power 000 On Telling Men From Women 000 Gender and Sports 000 Risk Behavior 000 Weight and Eating Disorders 000 What Is an Able Body? 000 Degendering Social Bodies 000 Conclusion 000 9. Wild Thoughts: An Interactionist Analysis of Ideology, Emotion, and Nature 000 Gary Alan Fine and Kent L. Sandstrom Sociology, Ideology, and Symbolic Interactionism 000 Ideology, Images, and Moral Order 000 Ideology and Emotion 000 Ideology, Dramaturgy, and Action Frames 000 Group Identity, Networks, and Ideology 000 Conclusions: Ideology in Action 000 10. Goffman?s Dramaturgical Sociology: Personal Sales and Service in a Commodified World 000 Peter Kivisto and Dan Pittman Roles 000 Scripts 000 Costumes 000 Stages and Sets 000 Impression Management and Sincerity 000 Conflicting Role Expectations 000?Real? Selves in a Commodified World 000 11. Contrasts of Carnival: Mardi Gras Between the Modern and the Postmodern 000 Kevin Fox Gotham Introduction 000 Between the Modern and Postmodern 000 The Production of Simulacra: Mardi Gras as Commodity-Spectacle 000 Implosion of Mardi Gras and Tourism 000 Beads, Breasts, and Beyond: Hyperreality and Sign-Value 000 Conclusion 000 12. Negotiating the Social Landscape to Create Social Change 000 Anne F. Eisenberg Introduction 000 Bourdieu: Background, Theorizing and Theory 000 Evoking Social Change: A Case Study 000 Closing 000 13. Globalization Theory and Religious Fundamentalism 000 William H. Swatos, Jr. Global Culture 000 Excursus on the History of Religions 000 Globalization and Fundamentalisms 000 Conclusion 000 Index 000.