Twentieth-century social thought / R.P. Cuzzort & Edith W. King.

Contents;

Chapter 1: Introduction: The uses of social thought as we enter the next century
Chapter 2: The sacred and the profane: An introduction to Emile Durkheim
Chapter 3: Power, bureaucracy, money, and religion: The views of Max Weber
Chapter 4: Profit, greed, and human misery: Social theory and Karl Marx
Chapter 5: Sexuality and social force: Social thought and the contribution of Sigmund Freud

Chapter 6: Symbolic interactionism and the work of George Herbert Mead
Chapter 7: The social thought of Pitirim A. Sorokin
Chapter 8: The sociologist in anger: The views of C. Wright Mills
Chapter 9: Cultural revelations: The work of Margaret Mead
Chapter 10: Abundance, leisure, and loneliness: Observations on society from David Riesman

Chapter 11: The unanticipated consequences of human actions: The functional analysis of Robert K. Merton
Chapter 12: Theory and practice: The applied vision of Howard S. Becker
Chapter 13: Sociology as bad faith: The social perspective of Peter L. Berger
Chapter 14: Life as a con game: The dramaturgic vision of Erving Goffman
Chapter 15: Studying the commonplace: The work of Harold Garfinkel

Chapter 16: Building a global civiv culture: Elise Boulding and strategies for a peaceful world
Chapter 17: Epilogue: Social thought for a global society

Includes bibliographical references and index.