Historical development of sociology: sociological traditions / History and development of sociological social research methods / Deep questions: structure/agency, micro/macro and time/space Philosophies of the social sciences / Interaction of theory and method in social science / Varieties of sociological theorizing / Branches of sociology / Future of sociology: understanding the transformations of the social / Life course dynamics / Rational choice and sociology / Sociology of emotions / Social psychology / Psychoanalysis and social theory / Sociobiology and sociology / Existential sociology / Social network analysis / Economic sociology: its history and development

Cultural sociology / Power and the State / Organizational sociology / Feminist sociological theory / Sociology's 'other': the debates on European universals / Beyond evolution and historicism: cultural forms of modernity / Functionalism and its critics / Structuration theories / Historical sociology: development and reoriention / Sociological Marxism: history and development / Consumer society / Social movement theory / Technology / Institutional analysis and development: elements of the framework in historical perspective / Poststructural theories / Dependency and world-systems perspectives on development / Subprime crisis and global finance: a sociological perspective / Theories of the information age