Contents: Society as a system of subsystems
Manifest and latent functions : the Matthew effect
An automated utopia : systems theory
From functionalism to structuralism
Constructivist structuralism : habitus
The analysis of socially constructed reality
Interactionism
Dramaturgy
Ethnomethodology
The information society
A new modernity
Individuals as the basis of social actions
The theory of communicative action
The dialogic turn in the social sciences.
Contemporary sociological theory by Ramón Flecha. ISBN 0820467952. Published by Peter Lang in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.