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The named theories, concepts and paradigms sociology and anthropology have produced to explain social order, conflict, interaction and meaning: structural-functionalist theory, conflict and critical theory, symbolic interactionism and microsociology, sociological method and epistemology, structuralism and poststructuralism, and interpretive and ritual theory within anthropology specifically, following the standard theoretical-paradigm canon set out in surveys such as George Ritzer's own Sociological Theory. Belongs here: a named theory, concept or paradigm. Does not belong here: the theorist who originated it, grouped under Social Theorists, or the philosophy of social science's own methodological debate about theory in the abstract, which Philosophy atlas carries per this atlas's own scope charter seam.

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All Social Theory and Concepts
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Alienation

Conflict and Critical Theory

Alliance Theory

Structuralism and Poststructuralism

Amity-enmity complex

Conflict and Critical Theory

Anarchism

Conflict and Critical Theory

Anomie

Structural-Functionalist Theory

Anticipatory obedience

Symbolic Interactionism and Microsociology

Binary Opposition

Structuralism and Poststructuralism

Bloomington school

Sociological Method and Epistemology

Classical Marxism

Conflict and Critical Theory

Communitas

Interpretive and Ritual Theory in Anthropology

Conflict Theory

Conflict and Critical Theory

Critical Theory

Conflict and Critical Theory

Cultural Capital

Conflict and Critical Theory

Cultural Relativism

Interpretive and Ritual Theory in Anthropology

Deconstruction

Structuralism and Poststructuralism

Dramaturgy

Symbolic Interactionism and Microsociology

Emic and Etic

Interpretive and Ritual Theory in Anthropology

Ethnomethodology

Symbolic Interactionism and Microsociology

Feminist Theory

Conflict and Critical Theory

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

Structural-Functionalist Theory

Global City

Conflict and Critical Theory

Grounded Theory

Sociological Method and Epistemology

Group cohesiveness

Symbolic Interactionism and Microsociology

Habitus

Conflict and Critical Theory

Hegemony

Conflict and Critical Theory

Hidden curriculum

Conflict and Critical Theory

Historical Particularism

Interpretive and Ritual Theory in Anthropology

Ideal Type

Sociological Method and Epistemology

Institutional analysis

Sociological Method and Epistemology

Institutional betrayal

Conflict and Critical Theory

Institutional complementarity

Structural-Functionalist Theory

Institutional corruption

Conflict and Critical Theory

Institutional logic

Structural-Functionalist Theory

Institutional sclerosis

Structural-Functionalist Theory

Institutional theory

Structural-Functionalist Theory

Institutional trust (social sciences)

Symbolic Interactionism and Microsociology

Interaction Ritual Chains

Symbolic Interactionism and Microsociology

Intersectionality

Conflict and Critical Theory

Labeling Theory

Symbolic Interactionism and Microsociology

Liminality

Interpretive and Ritual Theory in Anthropology

Linguistic Relativity

Interpretive and Ritual Theory in Anthropology

Looking-Glass Self

Symbolic Interactionism and Microsociology

Manchester School (Anthropology)

Interpretive and Ritual Theory in Anthropology

Manifest and Latent Functions

Structural-Functionalist Theory

Mechanical and Organic Solidarity

Structural-Functionalist Theory

Methodological Individualism

Sociological Method and Epistemology

Middle-Range Theory

Sociological Method and Epistemology

Panopticism

Structuralism and Poststructuralism

Positivism

Sociological Method and Epistemology

Poststructuralism

Structuralism and Poststructuralism

Power/Knowledge

Structuralism and Poststructuralism

Rational Choice Theory

Symbolic Interactionism and Microsociology

Rites of Passage

Interpretive and Ritual Theory in Anthropology

Role Theory

Structural-Functionalist Theory

Social Constructionism

Conflict and Critical Theory

Social Exchange Theory

Symbolic Interactionism and Microsociology

Social Fact

Sociological Method and Epistemology

Structural Functionalism

Structural-Functionalist Theory

Structuralism

Structuralism and Poststructuralism

Symbolic Interactionism

Symbolic Interactionism and Microsociology

The Total Institution

Symbolic Interactionism and Microsociology

Thick Description

Interpretive and Ritual Theory in Anthropology

Tuckman's stages of group development

Symbolic Interactionism and Microsociology

Verstehen

Sociological Method and Epistemology

World-Systems Theory

Conflict and Critical Theory
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Sociological theory
WikipediaSociological theory, History section, era sentence
Quote, Sociological theory, History section, era sentence
The field of sociology itself is a relatively new discipline and so, by extension, is the field of sociological theory. Both date back to the 18th and 19th centuries, periods of drastic social change, where societies would begin to see, for example, the emergence of industrialization, urbanization, democracy, and early capitalism.
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Wikipedia: Alliance Theory
WikipediaContains: Alliance TheoryView the Source
Wikipedia: Social Constructionism
WikipediaContains: Social ConstructionismView the Source
Wikipedia: Feminist Theory
WikipediaContains: Feminist TheoryView the Source
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  • Contains: Positivism
  • Contains: Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
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