Readings In Social Theory - James Farganis

About the book

Following a chronological organization, this highly regarded anthology of primary readings in sociological theory covers the major theorists and schools from classic to contemporary, modernist, and postmodernist. Its comprehensive coverage and excellent introductions make this book appealing as a main text for instructors who want to encourage students to read and interpret original sources, or as a supplement for those who use a traditional main text.

Table of contents

Preface
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, The Manifesto of the Communist Party
From Karl Marx, The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof
2. Emile Durkheim: Anomie and Social Integration
Introduction
From Emile Durkheim, "Egoistic Suicide and Anomic Suicide"
From Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
3. Max Weber: The Iron Cage
Introduction
From Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
From Max Weber, "Bureaucracy"
From Max Weber, "Class, Status, Party"
From Max Weber, "Power, Domination & Types of Authority"
4. Georg Simmel: Dialectic of Individual and Society
Introduction
From Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life"
From Georg Simmel, "The Stranger"
5. George Herbert Mead: The Emergent Self
Introduction
From George Herbert Mead, "Mind, Self, and Society"
6. 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"
Part Two: Contemporary Sociological Theory
7. Functionalism
Introduction
From Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, "Some Principles of Stratification"
From Talcott Parsons, "The System of Modern Societies'
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 L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff, "The Ironies of Diversity"
9. Exchange Theory and Rational Choice
Introduction
From George C. Homans, "Social Behavior as Exchange"
From James Coleman, "Social Capital 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, "The Sacred Canopy"
From Harold Garfinkel, "Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities"
11. Symbolic Interaction
Introduction
From Herbert Blumer, "Society as Symbolic Interaction"
From Erving Goffman, "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life"
From Arlie Hochschild, "Exploring the Managed Heart"
Part Three: Modernism and Post-Modernism
12: Critical Theory
Introduction
From Herbert Marcuse, "One-Dimensional Man"
From Jurgen Habermas, "Religion in the Public Sphere"
13. Post-Modernism
Introduction
From Michel Foucault, "The Carceral"
From Jean-Francois Lyotard, "The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge"
Part Four: After Post-Modernism
14. Sex, Gender, Queer Theory and Race
Introduction
From Dorothy Smith, "Women's Experience as a Radical Critique of Sociology"
From Patricia Hill Collins, "Black Feminist Thought"
From Candace West and Don Zimmerman, "Doing Gender"
From Steven Seidman, "Deconstructing Queer Theory"
From Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, "Critical Race Theory"
Part Five: Globalization
15. Global Society: Two Perspectives
Introduction
From Ulrich Beck, "The Terrorist Threat: World Risk Society Revisited"
From Joseph Stiglitz, "Globalism's Discontents"