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This comprehensive collection of contemporary sociological theory is the definitive guide to current perspectives and approaches in the field, examining key topics and debates in the field.

• Collects the most representative material available on topics such as symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, structuralism, network theory, critical theory, feminist theory, and the debates over modernity and postmodernity
• Includes examinations of the work of Foucault, Giddens, and Bourdieu
• A new section for this edition opens up the debate on power and inequality
• Thematically organized