European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie / Europäisches Archiv für Soziologie, Vol. 46, No. 2 (2005), pp. 213-262 (50 pages) On cherche à tester sur un cas historique ...
This course reviews some of the most important developments in contemporary sociological theory. It examines work in such areas as relational sociology; rational-choice theory and ethnomethodology; ...
According to the functionalist theoretical perspective of sociology introduced by Emile Durkheim in the nineteenth century, society is held together by social consensus, or cohesion, in which members ...
George C. Homans's theory on social exchange is critically examined and found to have serious chortcomings with regard to its deductive and inductive aspects. An specially prominent shortcoming ...