Readings in Social Theory

INTRODUCTION: THE CLASSIC TRADITION TO POST-MODERNISM: AN OVERVIEW PART ONE: THE CLASSIC TRADITION 1. Karl Marx: ALIENATION, CLASS STRUGGLE, AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS Introduction From Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Manifesto of the Communist From Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 From Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, German Ideology From Karl Marx, Fetishism of Commodities 2. Aemile Durkheim: ANOMIE AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION INTRODUCTION From Aemile Durkheim, Rules of Sociological Method From Aemile Durkheim, Egoistic and Anomic Suicide From Aemile Durkheim, Elementary Forms of Religious From Aemile Durkheim, Individualism and the Intellectuals 3. Max Weber: THE IRON CAGE Introduction From Max Weber, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism From Max Weber, Bureaucracy From Max Weber, 'Objectivity' in Science and Policy From Max Weber, Class, Status, Party 4. Georg Simmel: DIALECTIC OF INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY Introduction From Georg Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life From Georg Simmel, Stranger 5. George Herbert Mead: THE EMERGENT SELF Introduction From George Herbert Mead, Mind, Self, and 6. W.E.B. Du Bois: DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL Introduction From W.E.B. Du Bois, Philadelphia Negro: A Study From W.E.B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY 7. FUNCTIONALISM Introduction From Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, Some Principles of Stratification From Talcott Parsons, Age and Sex in the Structure of the United States From Robert K. Merton, Manifest and Latent Functions 8. CONFLICT THEORY Introduction From Ralf Dahrendorf, Social Structure, Group Interests, and Conflict Groups From C. Wright Mills, The Structure of Power in America From Richard Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff, Diversity in the Power Elite 9. EXCHANGE THEORY AND RATIONAL CHOICE Introduction From Peter Blau, The Structure of Associations From George C. Homans,Social Behavior as Exchange From James Coleman, Social in the Creation of Human Capital 10. PHENOMENOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGY AND ETHNOMETHODOLOGY Introduction From Alfred Schutz, Common-Sense and Scientific Interpretation of Human Action From Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, Foundations of Knowledge in Everyday Life From Harold Garfinkel, Studies in Ethnomethodology 11. SYMBOLIC INTERACTION Introduction From Herbert Blumer, Society as Symbolic Interaction From Erving Goffman, Presentation of Self in Everyday 12. FEMINIST THEORY Introduction From Dorothy Smith, Women's Experience as a Radical Critique of Sociology From Michele Barrett,Words and Things: Materialism and Method in Contemporary Feminist Analysis PART THREE: MODERNITY AND POST-MODERNITY 13: CRITICAL THEORY Introduction From Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man From Jurgen Habermas, Three Normative Models of Democracy 14. POST-MODERNISM Introduction From Michel Foucault, The Carceral From Jean-Francois Lyotard, Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

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