Social Theory: Continuity and Confrontation

Preface
Reading Theory: A General Introduction

Part I: Beginnings
Introduction

Chapter One: Inventing the Lens
Introduction

Niccolo` Machiavelli, The Prince
Irving Zeitlin, Ideology and the Development of Sociological Theory
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Kant, "What is Enlightenment?"
Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
A word on Auguste Comte

Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Key Terms
Questions & Exercises

Part II: Classical Theory
Introduction
Suggested Readings

Chapter Two: Marxist Theory
Introduction

Marx:
The Communist Manifesto, Part I
The German Ideology
Capital: "Fetishism of Commodities"; "On Machinery and Technology"

The Legacy of Marx and Engels:
Aronowitz and DiFazio, The Jobless Future
David Harvey, A Brief History of Neo-Liberalism

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Study Guide
Key Terms
Questions & Exercises

Chapter Three: The Social Theory of Emile Durkheim
Introduction

The Rules of Sociological Method ("crime")
Suicide (on anomie)
Elementary Forms of Religious Life (from the Conclusion)

The Legacy of Emile Durkheim
Robert Merton, "Social Structure and Anomie"

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Study Guide
Key Terms
Questions & Exercises

Chapter Four: The Social Theory of Max Weber
Introduction

Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology: excerpts and "Science as Vocation"

The Legacy of Max Weber
George Ritzer: McDonaldization of Society
Skocpol, "The Narrowing of Civic Life"

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Key Terms
Questions & Exercises

Chapter Five: The Individual in Society: Simmel and Freud
Introduction

Simmel, The Miser and the Spendthrift and "The Metropolis and Mental Life"
Legacy of Simmel: David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd

Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (excerpts)
The Legacy of Sigmund Freud:
Juliet Mitchell, Psychoanalysis and Feminism

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Study Guide
Key Terms
Questions & Exercises
Part II - Questions and Exercises

Part III: The Middle Years
Introduction
Suggested Readings, Part III

Chapter Six: American Emergence
Introduction

Cooley and Mead. Mind, Self and Society
The Legacy of Cooley and Mead:
Patricia Adler and Peter Adler, "The Gloried Self"
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
Darkwater, "The Souls of White Folk"
The Chicago School, St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton. Black Metropolis
The Legacy of American Sociology:
William Julius Wilson, When Work Disappears

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Key Terms
Questions & Exercises

Chapter Seven: Reconstructed Marxism
Introduction

Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse, The Dialectic of Enlightenment
Antonio Gramsci, The Prison Notebooks

Legacy of Gramsci:
Jean Anyon, "Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work"

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Key Terms
Questions & Exercises

Chapter Eight: American Hegemony
Introduction

Talcott Parson
Structural Functionalism. Theories of Society
Mental Illness. "Illness and the Role of the Physician"

C. Wright Mills
Conflict Theory. The Power Elite

Howard S. Becker
Symbolic Interactionism. Outsiders

Herbert Marcuse
Consumerism & 'False Needs.' One Dimensional Man

Louis Althusser
Structural Marxism. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus"

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Key Terms
Questions & Exercises

Part IV: Transitions and Changes
Introduction
Suggested Readings for Part IV

Chapter Nine: The Social Theory of Erving Goffman
Introduction

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Frame Analysis
'The Interaction Order'

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Key Terms
Questions & Exercises

Chapter Ten: Power, Bodies, and Subjects: The Social Theory of Michel Foucault
Introduction

Discipline and Punish "The Body of the Condemned" and "The Panopticon"
"The Subject and the Power"

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Key Terms
Questions & Exercises

Chapter Eleven: The Social Theory of Pierre Bourdieu
Introduction

Sociology in Question
The Logic of Practice
Distinction

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Key Terms
Questions & Exercises

Chapter Twelve: The Social Theory of Stuart Hall
Introduction

"Encoding, Decoding"
"Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities"
Gramsci's "Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity"

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Key Terms
Questions & Exercises

Part V: Dispersion and Difference
Introduction

Chapter Thirteen: Issues of Race and Ethnicity in a Post-Colonial World
Introduction

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
Edward W. Said, Orientalism
Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States
David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness

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Key Terms
Questions & Exercises

Chapter Fourteen: Highlighting Gender and Sexuality
Introduction

Dorothy E. Smith, The Conceptual Practices of Power
Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter
Angela Davis. Lisa Lowe's Interview with Angela Davis (1995)
Raewynn W. Connell, Masculinities
John D'Emilio, "Capitalism and Gay Identity"

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Questions & Exercises

Chapter Fifteen: Conceptions of Culture
Introduction

Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature
Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Jurgen Habermas, Legitimation Crises
The Theory of Communicative Action;
Frederic Jameson, Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

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Chapter Sixteen: Media and Culture in the Information Age
Introduction

Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Paul Willis, The Ethnographic Imagination
Roland Barthes, "Mythologies"

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Chapter Seventeen: Global Views
Introduction

Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System
Arjun Appadurai, "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy"

Saskia Sassen, "The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier"
Nestor Garcia-Canclini, Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity

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Key Terms
Questions & Exercises

Sources
Index