Preface -- Introduction: the classic tradition to post-modernism : an overview -- The classic tradition -- Karl Marx : alienation, class struggle, and class consciousness -- Emile Durkheim : anomie and social integration -- Max Weber : the iron cage -- Georg Simmel : dialectic of individual and society -- George Herbert Mead : the emergent self -- W. E. B. du Bois : double-consciousness and the public intellectual -- Contemporary sociological theory -- Functionalism -- Conflict theory -- Exchange theory and rational choice -- Phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology -- Symbolic interaction -- Modernism and post-modernism -- Critical theory -- Post-modernism -- After post-modernism -- Sex, gender, queer theory, and race -- Globalization -- Global society : two perspectives.