Readings in Social Theory : The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernism

by FARGANIS

• ISBN13: 9780073528137
• ISBN10: 0073528137
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-05
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This highly regarded anthology of primary readings in sociological theory covers the major theorists and schools from classic to contemporary, modernist, and postmodernist, in a chronological organization. Its comprehensive coverage and excellent introductions make this book appealing as a main text for professors who want to encourage students to read and interpret original sources, or as a supplement for those who use a traditional main text.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Classic Tradition To Post-Modernism: An Overview

The Classic Tradition

Alienation, Class Struggle, And Class Consciousness

Introduction From

The Manifesto of the Communist Party

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

The German Ideology From

Fetishism of Commodities

Anomie And Social Integration

Introduction

The Rules of Sociological

Method From emile Durkheim

"Egoistic Suicide and Anomic Suicide"

From emile Durkheim,The Elementary

Forms of Religious Life

From emile Durkheim,Individualism and the Intellectuals

The Iron Cage

Introduction

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

From Max Weber, "Bureaucracy" From Max Weber

"'Objectivity' in Social Science and Social Policy"

"Class, Status, Party"

Georg Simmel: Dialectic Of Individual And Society

Introduction

"The Metropolis and Mental Life" From

The Stranger

The Emergent Self

Introduction From

Mead,Mind, Self, and Society

Double Consciousness And The Public Intellectual

Introduction From

The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study From

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk

Functionalism

Introduction From

Some Principles of Stratification" From

"Age and Sex in the Social

Structure of the United States"

"Manifest and Latent Functions"

Conflict Theory

Introduction From

"Social Structure, Group Interests, and Conflict Groups"

"The Structure of Power in America"

Diversity in the Power Elite

Exchange Theory And Rational Choice

Introduction

"The Structure of Social Associations"

"Social Behavior as Exchange"

"Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital"

Phenomenological Sociology And Ethnomethodology

Introduction

"Common-Sense and Scientific

Interpretation of Human Action"

"Foundations of Knowledge in Everyday Life"

Studies in Ethnomethodology

Symbolic Interaction

Introduction

"Society as Symbolic Interaction"

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Feminist Theory

Introduction

"Women's Experience as a Radical Critique of Sociology"

"Words and Things: Materialism and Method in Contemporary

Feminist Analysis"

Modernity And Post-Modernity

Critical Theory

Introduction

One Dimensional Man

"Three Normative Models of Democracy"

Post-Modernism

Introduction

"The Carceral"

The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

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