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This innovative textbook presents an up-to-date synthesis of the central debates in contemporary social thought. It offers a different framework for the study of social theory. By focusing on the core concepts and issues - rather than on schools of thought or individual theorists - Malcolm Waters relates past and present theory to the key concerns of sociology today.

Modern Sociological Theory gives a lucid overview of: the core concepts that sociological theory must address and attempt to reconcile - agency, rationality, structure and system; and the main phenomena that sociological theory sets to explain - culture, power, gender, differentiation and stratification.

It explains the major contributions to the analysis of each concept by classical and contemporary theorists, and links these ideas to current sociological issues such as change and globalization, feminism and sociological theory and the return to cultural analysis.

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• General Theory in Sociology
• Agency
• Meaning and Motives in Social Arrangements
• Rationality
• The Maximization of Individual Interest
• Structure
• Secret Patterns which Determine Experience
• System
• An Overarching Order
• Culture and Ideology
• Power and the State
• Gender and Feminism
• Differentiation and Stratification
• Conclusion
• The Past and the Future of Sociological Theory