Social Theory

by Garner, Roberta

• ISBN13: 9781551112350
• ISBN10: 1551112353
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Reading Theory: A General Introduction	xiii
PART I: BEGINNINGS
Introduction	3	(2)
Inventing The Lens
Introduction	5	(1)
Machiavelli	6	(8)
The Prince	8	(6)
The Enlightenment and the Conservative Reaction	14	(5)
The Conservative Reaction	16	(3)
Irving M. Zeitlin
Edmund Burke	19	(4)
Reflections on the Revolution in France	21	(2)
Auguste Comte	23	(4)
Classical Theory
Introduction	25	(2)
Karl Marx	27	(26)
The Communist Manifesto	36	(10)
The German Ideology	46	(2)
Capital	48	(5)
The Legacy of Marx: Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio	53	(11)
The Jobless Future	55	(9)
Emile Durkheim	64	(10)
The Rules of Sociological Method	70	(4)
The Legacy of Durkheim: Robert Merton	74	(14)
Social Structure and Anomie	76	(12)
Max Weber	88	(14)
Essays in Sociology	92	(10)
The Legacy of Weber: Jeff Goodwin and Theda Skocpol	102	(22)
Explaining Revolutions in the Contemporary Third World	104	(20)
The Legacy of Weber: Robert Reich	124	(11)
The Work of Nations	126	(9)
Georg Simmel	135	(19)
The Miser and the Spendthrift	137	(4)
The Metropolis and Mental Life	141	(13)
The Legacy of Simmel	154	(23)
David Riesman
The Lonely Crowd	156	(15)
PART II: THE MIDDLE YEARS
Introduction	171	(2)
Pragmatism, Progress, Ethnicity: The United States in the Sociological Mirror
Introduction	173	(4)
Charles Cooley and George Herbert Mead	177	(7)
Mind, Self, and Society, George Herbert Mead	180	(4)
The Legacy of Cooley and Mead: Patricia Adler and Peter Adler	184	(14)
The Gloried Self	185	(13)
W.E.B. DuBois	198	(11)
The Souls of Black Folk	202	(6)
The Souls of White Folk	208	(1)
The Chicago School	209	(17)
Black Metropolis, St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton	211	(15)
The Legacy of American Sociology	226	(23)
William Julius Wilson
When Work Disappears	228	(19)
Marxism in the Interwar Period
Introduction	247	(2)
Walter Benjamin	249	(20)
The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction	252	(17)
Antonio Gramsci	269	(15)
The Prison Notebooks	274	(10)
The Legacy of Cultural Marxism: Todd Gitlin	284	(28)
Prime Time Ideology	286	(21)
Postwar Perspectives
Introduction	307	(5)
Structural Functionalism: Talcott Parsons	312	(10)
Functional Imperatives	316	(6)
Conflict Theory	322	(9)
C. Wright Mills
The Sociological Imagination	324	(7)
Symbolic Interaction and Other Micro-Perspectives	331	(16)
Howard Becker
Erving Goffman
Outsiders, Howard Becker	334	(13)
Structural Marxist Theory	347	(20)
Louis Althusser
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses	349	(14)
PART III: RADIANT TOMORROWS
Introduction	363	(2)
Melting Rays
Introduction	365	(2)
Contemporary European Theorists	367	(4)
Jurgen Habermas	371	(3)
Formal Democracy	372	(2)
Pierre Bourdieu	374	(10)
Sociology in Question	376	(8)
Anthony Giddens	384	(7)
Studies in Social and Political Theory	385	(6)
Understanding The Third Technological Revolution Bell, Mandel, Toffler, Castells	391	(16)
The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, Daniel Bell	395	(12)
Marshall McLuhan	407	(10)
Understanding Media	409	(8)
The Legacy of McLuhan: Ien Ang	417	(15)
Living Room Wars	418	(14)
Michel Foucault	432	(18)
The Body of the Condemned	436	(4)
Panopticon	440	(10)
Postmodern Marxism	450	(28)
Paul Willis
Common Culture	452	(21)
Highlighting Gender and Sexuality
Introduction	473	(5)
Dorothy E. Smith	478	(8)
The Conceptual Practices of Power	478	(8)
The Social Construction of Gender	486	(2)
Gilbert Herdt	488	(15)
The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea	488	(15)
Janice Boddy	503	(25)
Wombs and Alien Spirits	504	(23)
Global Views
Introduction	527	(1)
Immanuel Wallerstein	528	(8)
The Modern World-System	530	(6)
Fredric Jameson	536	(22)
Postmodernism, or The Culture of Late Capitalism	539	(19)
Stuart Hall	558	(15)
Cultural Identity and Diaspora	560	(13)
Arjun Appadurai	573	(16)
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy	574	(15)
Sources	589