Readings in Social Theory

by Farganis, James

• ISBN13: 9780078111556
• ISBN10: 0078111552
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-23
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Following a chronological organization, this highly regarded anthology of primary readings in sociological theory covers the major theorists and schools from classic to contemporary, modernist, and postmodernist. Its comprehensive coverage and excellent introductions make this book appealing as a main text for instructors 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

Preface

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

The Classic Tradition

Alienation, Class Struggle, and Class Consciousness

Introduction

The Manifesto of the Communist Party

The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof

Anomie and Social Integration

Introduction

"Egoistic Suicide and Anomic Suicide"

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

The Iron Cage

Introduction

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

"Bureaucracy"

"Class, Status, Party"

"Power, Domination & Types of Authority"

Dialectic of Individual and Society

Introduction

"The Metropolis and Mental Life"

"The Stranger"

The Emergent Self

Introduction

"Mind, Self, and Society"

Double Consciousness and the Public Intellectual

Introduction

"The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study"

"The Souls of Black Folk"

Contemporary Sociological Theory

Functionalism

Introduction

"Some Principles of Stratification"

"The System of Modern Societies"

"Manifest and Latent Functions"

Conflict Theory

Introduction

"Social Structure, Group Interests, and Conflict Groups"

"The Structure of Power in America"

"The Ironies of Diversity"

Exchange Theory and Rational Choice

Introduction

"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"

"The Sacred Canopy"

"Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities"

Symbolic Interaction

Introduction

"Society as Symbolic Interaction"

"The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life"

"Exploring the Managed Heart"

Modernism and Post-Modernism

Critical Theory

Introduction

"One-Dimensional Man"

"Religion in the Public Sphere"

Post-Modernism

Introduction

"The Carceral"

"The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge"

After Post-Modernism

Sex, Gender, Queer Theory and Race

Introduction

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

"Black Feminist Thought"

"Doing Gender"

"Deconstructing Queer Theory"

"Critical Race Theory"

Globalization

Global Society: Two Perspectives

Introduction

"The Terrorist Threat: World Risk Society Revisited"

"Globalism's Discontents"

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