Social Theory

by Garner, Roberta

• ISBN13: 9781442601550
• ISBN10: 1442601558
• 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
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
Postwar Perspectives
Introduction	p. 323
Structural Functionalism	p. 328
Functional Imperatives	p. 332
Conflict Theory	p. 338
The Sociological Imagination	p. 340
Symbolic Interactionism	p. 347
Outsiders	p. 351
The Self: The Dramaturgical Model: Erving Goffman	p. 364
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life	p. 368
Structural Marxist Theory	p. 381
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses	p. 383
Radiant Tomorrows
Introduction	p. 397
Melting Rays: Modern European Theorists
Introduction	p. 401
	p. 405
The Body of the Condemned	p. 410
Panopticon	p. 414
	p. 423
Formal Democracy	p. 424
	p. 426
Sociology in Question	p. 428
Highlighting Gender And Sexuality
Introduction	p. 437
Society and Sexualities	p. 447
Making Trouble	p. 449
The Social Construction of Gender In Comparative Prespective	p. 462
The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea	p. 464
Wombs and Alien Spirits	p. 479
Denationalized Service, Renationalized Servitude, and Identities	p. 503
Gender, Power, and Perspectives on Society	p. 520
The Conceptual Practices of Power	p. 520
Images And Screens: Media and Culture In The Information Age
Introduction	p. 529
	p. 533
Understanding Media	p. 535
The Legacy of McLuhan	p. 543
Living Room Wars	p. 544
	p. 558
The Society of the Spectacle	p. 560
	p. 568
Encoding, Decoding	p. 569
Postmodern Marxism	p. 573
Common Culture	p. 575
	p. 595
Posmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism	p. 598
Global Views
Introduction	p. 617
	p. 619
The Modern World-System	p. 621
	p. 627
Cultural Identity and Diaspora	p. 629
	p. 642
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy	p. 643
	p. 657
The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier	p. 660
Sources	p. 677
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