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9780199732036

Social Theory Roots and Branches

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    9780199732036

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    0199732035

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-01-20
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Edited by Peter Kivisto, this acclaimed collection of accessible primary source readings enables students to experience "first-hand" a wide range of perspectives shaping current sociological theory. Now in its fourth edition, Social Theory: Roots and Branches covers both classical theory (the roots) and contemporary theory (the branches) and shows how they are linked. Part One features work from such well-known classical theorists as Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Simmel while also presenting selections by theorists outside of the discipline and from writers who are often overlooked in competing collections, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Harriet Martineau. Part Two offers readings that illustrate major contemporary theoretical approaches, ending with a section on cutting-edge directions in theoretical discourse. Featuring eighty-two seminal writings, Social Theory helps students draw connections across different schools of thought. Each reading is enhanced by a concise, thought-provoking introduction that highlights its key points and frames it in a larger context. These introductions serve as a useful "road map" for students as they travel through the diverse views and continuing debates that make the study of social theory an exciting adventure. The introductions also explain core issues and relationships among the topics covered. The fourth edition is enhanced by seventeen new selections, including five articles in a new section on theories of race, ethnicity, and nationalism. New discussion questions follow each section.

Author Biography


Peter Kivisto, PhD (New School for Social Research), is the Richard Swanson Professor of Social Thought and chair of sociology at Augustana College. He is author of numerous books and articles. His primary scholarly and teaching interests revolve around social theory and ethnic and immigration studies. He has served as secretary-treasurer of the American Sociological Association's Theory and International Migration Sections and is currently serving as Editor of The Sociological Quarterly.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: "What is Social Theory?"
The Roots: Classical Social Theory
Karl Marx
Alienated Labor
The German Ideology (with Friedrich Engels)
Manifesto of the Communist Party (with Friedrich Engels)
Commodities
The General Formula for Capital
Émile Durkheim
On Mechanical and Organic Solidarity
What Is a Social Fact?
Anomic Suicide
Primitive Classification (with Marcel Mauss)
The Human Meaning of Religion
Max Weber
"Objectivity" in Social Science and Social Policy
The Spirit of Capitalism
Bureaucracy
The Nature of Charismatic Domination
Class, Status, Party
Georg Simmel
Fashion
The Problem of Sociology
Conflict as the Basis of Group Formation
The Stranger
The Philosophy of Money
Other Foundational Voices
Political Non-existence of Women
The Conservation of Races
The Dependence of Women
Pecuniary Canons of Taste
Utilization of Women in City Government
The Theory of Public Opinion
Voices Outside the Discipline
The Madman
What Pragmatism Means
The Eclipse of the Public
Civilization and Its Discontents
The Fusion of the 'I' and the 'Me' in Social Activities
The Branches: Contemporary Social Theory
Functionalism and Neofunctionalism
The Unanticipated Consequences of Social Action
The Subsystems of Society
Functional Differentiation
After Neofunctionalism
Conflict Theories
The Functions of Social Conflict
Culture and Politics
Conflict Groups and Group Conflict
The Basics of Conflict Theory
Symbolic Interaction, Phenomenology, and Ethnomethodology
Society as Symbolic Interaction
Performances
Indirect Social Relationships
Rules of Conversational Sequence
Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities
Exchange Theory and Rational Choice Theory
Social Behavior as Exchange
Power-Dependence Relations
Human Capital and Social Capital
Persons
Formulation of Exchange Theory
Feminist Theory
Doing Gender
Subversive Bodily Acts
Toward an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology
Sociology from Women's Experience: A Reaffirmation
Femininity and Masculinity
Theories of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
The Theoretical Status of the Concept of Race
Between Camps: Race and Culture in Postmodernity
Theorizing the "Modes of Incorporation,"
Ethnicity without Groups
Nationalism and the Cultures of Democracy
Critical Theory
Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
One-Dimensional Man
Traditional and Critical Theory
Personal Identity and Disrespect
Three Normative Models of Democracy
Contemporary Theories of Modernity
Shame and Repugnance
Spectacular Time
The Reflexivity of Modernity
Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
Redistribution, Bruno Latour the. Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodernity
The Correspondence between Goods Production and Taste Production
Advertising
Panopticism
On Living in a Liquid Modern World
Modern and Postmodern
World Systems and Globalization Theory
The Three Instances of Hegemony in the History of the Capitalist World-Economy
Mapping the Global Condition
Disjunction and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Theorizing Globalization
Further New Directions in Contemporary Social Theory
The Subject and Societal Movements
Interaction Ritual Theory
Materials for an Exploratory Theory of the Network Society
Mobile Sociology
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