The book Contemporary Sociological Theory is a significant collection of modern theories in sociology, viz., Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology, Neo-functionalism, Neo-Marxism, Post-Structuralism, and Post-Modernism. These theories include the con­tributions of intellectuals Talcott Parsons, Robert King Merton, Edmund Husserl, Alfred Schutz, Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, Harold Garfinkel, Erving Goffman, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Jürgen Habermas, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Anthony Giddens.