Social Theory

by Garner, Roberta

• ISBN13: 9781442601536
• ISBN10: 1442601531
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-15
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education

Summary

This reader enables students to understand the historical flow of social theory and see how disagreements and confrontations shape theory. As in the first edition, many of the classical articles are paired with contemporary theoretical and empirical studies that illustrate the continuing value of the classical concepts. Garner continues to offer her concise introductions, all of which have been completely revised and updated for this edition. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Roberta Garner is a Professor of Sociology at DePaul University in Chicago. She is the author of Contemporary Movements and Ideologies (McGraw-Hill) and The Joy of Stats (University of Toronto Press) and is one of the co-editors of The New Chicago: A Social and Cultural Analysis (Temple University Press).

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Reading Theory: A General Introduction	p. xi
Beginnings
Introduction	p. 3
Inventing the Lens
Introduction	p. 5
	p. 6
The Prince	p. 8
The Enlightenment and the Conservative Reaction	p. 14
The Conservative Reaction	p. 16
	p. 19
Reflections on the Revolution in France	p. 21
	p. 23
Classical Theory
Introduction	p. 25
	p. 27
The Communist Manifesto	p. 36
The German Ideology	p. 46
Capital	p. 48
The Legacy of Marx and Engels	p. 53
The Jobless Future	p. 55
The Legacy of Marx and Engels	p. 60
A Brief History of Neoliberalism	p. 63
	p. 72
The Rules of Sociological Method	p. 78
The Legacy of Durkheim	p. 82
Social Structure and Anomie	p. 85
	p. 97
Essays in Sociology	p. 102
The Legacy of Weber	p. 111
Explaining Revolutions in the Contemporary Third World	p. 113
The Legacy of Weber	p. 133
The Work of Nations	p. 136
	p. 144
The Miser and the Spendthrift	p. 146
The Metropolis and Mental Life	p. 150
The Legacy of Simmel	p. 163
The Lonely Crowd	p. 165
The Middle Years
Introduction	p. 181
Pragmatism, Progress, Ethnicity: The United States in the Sociological Mirror
Introduction	p. 183
	p. 187
Mind, Self, and Society	p. 190
The Legacy of Cooley and Mead	p. 194
The Gloried Self	p. 195
	p. 208
The Souls of Black Folk	p. 212
The Souls of White Folk	p. 218
The Chicago School	p. 219
Black Metropolis	p. 221
The Legacy of American Sociology	p. 236
When Work Disappears	p. 238
Marxism in the Interwar Period
Introduction	p. 257
	p. 259
The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction	p. 262
	p. 279
The Prison Notebooks	p. 285
The Legacy of Gramsci	p. 294
Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work	p. 297
Sources	p. 323
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