Current Perspectives in Social Theory -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Editorial Board -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- References -- Part I: The Dynamics of Process between Social Science and Social Theory -- Chapter 1. On theorizing the dynamics of process: A propaedeutic introduction -- 1. Ergodic vs. nonergodic processes -- 2. Good motives, bad habits -- 3. Variables, measures, and models -- 4. Demonstrating time functions -- 5. Theorizing dynamics of process -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2. Affinities between the project of dynamic theory and the tradition of critical theory: A sketch -- Dynamic theorizing between science and ideology -- Dialectical theorizing -- Modern society as capitalist society -- Dynamic theory and critical theory -- What's next? -- References -- Part II: Theorizing Process: Class, Social Inequality, and a New Reading of Marx -- Chapter 3. History and the ''processing'' of class in social theory -- Introduction -- Part one: formation -- Part two: reversion -- Part three: redirection -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4. Domination, contention, and the negotiation of inequality: A theoretical proposal -- 1. State making6 as creating and enforcing inequality from above -- 2. Making and contesting the rules from below: Contention -- 3. State making and contention as components of an interactive view of inequality: The ''pact of domination'' approach -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5. The labor-value relation and its transformations: Revisiting Marx's value theory -- Introduction -- An interpretive framework -- Labor-value relations across historical systems -- How does this framework help us interpret Marx's value theory? -- Revisiting approaches to Marx's value theory -- The labor-value relation and capitalist practice -- Summary discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

Part III: Theorizing "Globalization" -- Chapter 6. Globalization in and out, or ''how can there be a constructivist theory of globalization?'' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Observing globalization -- 3. Globalization, society, and communication -- 4. Globalization, society, and the world -- 5. From self-description to self-realization -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7. Conceptualizing globalization in terms of flows -- Introduction -- From ''solids'' to ''liquids'' (to ''gases'') -- Flows: the genealogy of a concept -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part IV: Theorizing Two Specific Social Processes: Anti-Semitism and Architecture -- Chapter 8. Why Nazified Germans killed Jewish people: insights from agent-based modeling of genocidal actions -- Introduction -- Roots of the model -- Defining a system of hypotheticals -- Identifying the model -- Estimating the results -- Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 9. Economy and field in the rise of postmodern architecture -- Specifying the postmodern -- Fordism and the ideology of modern architecture -- The crisis of Fordism and its aesthetic resolution -- The Fordist crisis in the architectural field -- The post-Fordist revolution -- Postmodernism: the political unconscious of post-Fordism -- Postmodern architectural aesthetics -- Conclusion -- References.