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