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Handbooks of Sociology and Social

Research

Series Editor
Richard Serpe
Department of Sociology, Kent University, Kent, OH, USA
The handbook series includes the latest and up-to-date overviews on topics
that are of key significance to contemporary sociological and related social
science research, including recent topics and areas of scholarship. Several of
the volumes discuss important topics from an interdisciplinary social science
perspective, covering sociology, anthropology, psychology, and psychiatry.
This prestigious series includes works by some of the top scholars in their
fields. These foundational works seek to record where the field has been, to
identify its current location, and to plot its course for the future.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6055


Seth Abrutyn • Omar Lizardo
Editors

Handbook of Classical
Sociological Theory
Editors
Seth Abrutyn Omar Lizardo
Department of Sociology UCLA Department of Sociology
University of British Columbia Los Angeles, CA, USA
Vancouver, BC, Canada

ISSN 1389-6903 ISSN 2542-839X (electronic)


Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
ISBN 978-3-030-78204-7 ISBN 978-3-030-78205-4 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78205-4

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Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Seth Abrutyn and Omar Lizardo

Part I Overarching Questions


2 The Methods and Surprises of Sociological Theory: Ideas,
Postulates, Predictions, Distributions, Unification . . . . . . . . . . 17
Guillermina Jasso
3 Modernity as a Classical Problem in Sociological Theory . . . . 37
Cesare Silla and Brandon Vaidyanathan
4 “Evolutionary Theorizing in Sociology’s Formative Period:
Implications for Theorizing Today” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Jonathan H. Turner and Kevin McCaffree
5 Selfing: Integrating Pragmatism and Phenomenology
to Develop a Multiprocessing Theory of the Self . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Erika Summers-Effler
6 Racism, Colonialism, and Modernity: The Sociology
of W.E.B. Du Bois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Aldon Morris, Michael Schwartz, and José Itzigsohn

Part II Central Dynamics


7 Does Differentiation Matter to Sociology? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Seth Abrutyn
8 Power, Regulation, and Social Order in the Intersection
of Political and Social Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Risto Heiskala and Peeter Selg
9 Hermeneutics and Performance in Social Theories
of Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Isaac Ariail Reed, Abigail Cary Moore,
and Vasfiye Betul Toprak
10 From Simmel to Relational Sociology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Sophie Mützel and Lisa Kressin

v
vi Contents

11 Reflections on Class and Social Inequality: Sociology


and Intersectionality in Dialogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Patricia Hill Collins and Rachel Yu Guo

Part III Spheres of Social Life


12 The Sociology of Kinship: A Case for Looking Back
to the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Alexandra Maryanski
13 Mediating the Sacred: Thinking Through Religious
Experience in the Classics and Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Michal Pagis and Daniel Winchester
14 Polity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Elisabeth Clemens
15 Theoretical Lineages and Contemporary Concerns in the
Sociology of Economic Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Stephanie L. Mudge and Christopher J. Lawrence
16 Law in Classical Sociological Theory: Coercion, Ideology,
and Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Eduardo Cornelius and Sida Liu
17 Why Study Schools? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Jeffrey Guhin
18 Art or the Aesthetic? The Relevance of the Classical
Sociology of Art for the Current Sociology of Culture . . . . . . 399
Ben Merriman

Part IV Theorizing New Social Forms


19 Urbanization Theorizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Terry Nichols Clark and Cary Wu
20 Crowd and Collective Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Christian Borch and Bjørn Schiermer
21 Strands of Classical Theory in the Study of Social
Movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Doug McAdam and Sidney Tarrow
22 Organizations: Theoretical Debates and the Scope of
Organizational Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
Neil Fligstein
23 The Road to a Sociological Theory of Civil Society . . . . . . . . 507
Peter Kivisto and Giuseppe Sciortino
24 The Other as Real, Imagined, and Political . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Claire Laurier Decoteau
Contents vii

Part V Interactions, Symbols, and Psyche


25 Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Self . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
Natalia Ruiz-Junco
26 Symbol Systems and Social Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
Vanina Leschziner and Gordon Brett
27 Consciousness and Unconsciousness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583
Lynn S. Chancer and Andrew J. Shapiro

Part VI Identifying Conceptual Threads


28 The Cognitive-Historical Origins of Conceptual Ambiguity
in Social Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607
Omar Lizardo
29 Morality and Sociological Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631
Steven Hitlin
30 Cognition, Practice, and Learning in the Discourse of the
Human Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
Michael Strand
31 On the Other Side of Interests: The Rise of Values and Their
Transformation into Disinterest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
John Levi Martin and Alessandra Lembo
32 The Cognitive Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693
Stephen Turner

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