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

by FARGANIS JAMES

• ISBN13: 9780072300604
• ISBN10: 0072300604
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-30
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This highly regarded anthology of primary readings in sociological theory covers the major theorist and schools from classic to contemporary to modernist and postmodernist in a chronological organization. While designed to be a supplementary reader, its comprehensive coverage and excellent introductions make this book appealing as a main text for professors who want to encourage their students to read and interpret original sources without a traditional main text.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: THE CLASSIC TRADITION TO POST-MODERNISM: AN OVERVIEW

PART ONE: THE CLASSIC TRADITION

Chapter 1: Karl Marx: Alienation, Class Struggle, and Class Consciousness

Introduction

From Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, "The Manifesto of the Communist Party"

From Karl Marx, "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844"

From Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, "The German Ideology"

From Karl Marx, "Theses on Feuerbach"

From Karl Marx, "Introduction to a Critique of Political Economy"

Chapter 2: Emile Durkheim: Anomie and Social Integration

Introduction

From Emile Durkheim, "Rules of Sociological Method"

From Emile Durkheim, "Egoistic Suicide and Anomic Suicide"

From Emile Durkheim, "The Elementary Forms of Religious Life"

Chapter 3: Friedrich Nietzsche: Reason and Power

Introduction

From Friedrich Nietzsche, "Thus Spoke Zarathrustra"

Chapter 4: Max Weber: The Iron Cage

Introduction

From Max Weber, "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"

From Max Weber, "Bureaucracy"

From Max Weber, "'Objectivity' in Social Science and Social Policy"

From Max Weber, "Class, Status, Party"

Chapter 5: Georg Simmel: Dialectic of Individual and Society

Introduction

From Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life"

Chapter 6: George Herbert Mead: The Emergent Self

Introduction

From George Herbert Mead, "Mind, Self, and Society"

Chapter 7: W.E.B. Du Bois: Double Consciousness and the Public Intellectual

Introduction

From W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study"

From W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Souls of Black Folk"

Chapter 8: Karl Mannheim: Sociology of Knowledge and the Role of Intellectuals

Introduction

From Karl Mannheim, "The Prospects of Scientific Politics," and "The Sociological Problem of the 'Intelligentsia'"

PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

Chapter 9: Functionalism

Introduction

From Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, "Some Principles of Stratification"

From Talcott Parsons, "Age and Sex in the Social Structure of the United States"

From Robert K. Merton, "Manifest and Latent Functions"

Chapter 10: Conflict Theory

Introduction

From Ralf Dahrendorf, "Social Structure, Group Interests, and Conflict Groups"

From C. Wright Mills, "The Structure of Power in America"

Chapter 11: Exchange Theory

Introduction

From Peter Blau, "The Structure of Social Associations"

Chapter 12: Phenomenological Sociology

Introduction

From Alfred Schutz, "Common-Sense and Scientific Interpretation of Human Action"

From Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, "Foundations of Knowledge in Everyday Life"

Chapter 13: Symbolic Interaction

Introduction

From Herbert Blumer, "Society as Symbolic Interaction"

From Erving Goffman, "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life"

Chapter 14: Feminist Theory

Introduction

From Dorothy Smith, "Women's Experience as a Radical Critique of Sociology"

PART THREE: MODERNITY AND POST-MODERNITY

Chapter 15: Critical Theory

Introduction

From Herbert Marcuse, "One Dimensional Man"

From Jurgen Habermas, "Technical Progress and the Social Life-World"

Chapter 16: Post-Modernism

Introduction

From Michel Foucault, "The Carceral"

From Jean-Francois Lyotard, "The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge"

From Richard Rorty, "Habermas and Lyotard on Post-Modernity"