Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-445) and index.
Having a thought -- Symbols, meaning & the social self : George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) and Herbert Blumer (1900-1987) -- Constructing social reality : Peter Berger (1929-) and Thomas Luckmann (1927-) -- Organizing ordinary life : Harold Garfinkel (1917-) -- Performing the self : Erving Goffman (1922-1982) -- Emotion and interaction ritual chains : Randall Collins (1941-) -- Social and population structures : Peter M. Blau (1918-2002) -- Gender inequality : Janet Saltzman Chafetz (1942-) -- The replication of class : Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) -- Global capitalism and the decline of American hegemony : Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-) -- Social systems and their environments : Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) -- Modernity and reason : Ju╠ergen Habermas (1929-) -- The juggernaut of modernity : Anthony Giddens (1938-) -- Defining the possible and impossible : Michel Foucault (1926-1984) -- Language on the rocks : Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) -- The end of everything : Jean Baudrillard (1929-) -- Race matters : Cornel West (1953-) -- Gendered consciousness : Dorothy E. Smith (1926-) -- Materializing sex and queer theory : Judith Butler (1956-) -- On being unsett