Adapted from: Farganis, James (editor). 2014. Readings in Social Theory: The Classic Traditiona to Post-Modernism, 7th edition. St. Louis, MO: McGraw-Hill.
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James Farganis: The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernism: An Overview
1. KARL MARX: ALIENATION, CLASS STRUGGLE,
AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS
From Karl
Marx and Frederick Engels: The Manifesto of the Communist Party
From Karl Marx: Economic
and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (selection)
From Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: The
German Ideology
From Karl
Marx: The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof
2. EMILE DURKHEIM: ANOMIE AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION
From Emile Durkheim: The
Rules of Sociological Method
From Emile Durkheim: Egoistic
Suicide and Anomic Suicide
From Emile Durkheim: The
Elementary Forms of Religious Life
3. MAX WEBER: THE IRON CAGE
From Max Weber: The
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
From Max Weber: Bureaucracy
(included in chapter readings, above) (see also)
From Max Weber: "Objectivity" in Social Science and Social Policy (included in chapter readings, above) (see also)
From Max Weber: Class, Status, Party (included in chapter readings, above) (see also)
From Max Weber, "Power, Domination & Types of Authority" (included in chapter readings, above)
For an excellent collection of Weber's work, see: Gerth,
H. H. and C. Wright Mills, translaters and editors. 1946. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
4. GEORG SIMMEL: DIALECTIC OF INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY
From Georg Simmel: The
Metropolis and Mental Life
From Georg Simmel: The
Stranger
5. GEORGE HERBERT MEAD: THE EMERGENT SELF
George Herbert
Mead: The
Emergent Self
From George
Herbert Mead: Mind, Self, and Society (see also
and this)
6. FUNCTIONALISM
From Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore: Some
Principles of Stratification (see also)
From Talcott Parsons: The
System of Modern Societies and Various
works
From Talcott Parsons, Age and Sex in the Social Structure of the United States (included in chapter readings, above)
From Robert K. Merton: Manifest
and Latent Functions
7. CONFLICT THEORY
From Ralf Dahrendorf: Social
Structure, Group Interests, and Conflict Groups (and this)
From C. Wright Mills: The Structure of Power in America
From Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff: The
Ironies of Diversity
8. EXCHANGE THEORY AND RATIONAL CHOICE
From George C. Homans: Social
Behavior as Exchange; The
human group and elementary social behaviour
From Peter Blau: The Structure of Social Associations; Exchange and Power in Social Life. New York: Wiley, 1964, pp. 88-97.
From James S. Coleman: Social
Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
From James S. Coleman: Familes and Schools
9. PHENOMENOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGY AND ETHNOMETHODOLOGY
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
From Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman: Doing
Gender
10. SYMBOLIC INTERACTION
From Herbert Blumer: Society
as Symbolic Interaction
From Erving Goffman: The
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
From Arlie Hochschild: Exploring
the Managed Heart
11. CRITICAL THEORY
From Herbert Marcuse: One-Dimensional Man
From Juergen Habermas: Religion
in the Public Sphere (local)
12. POST-MODERNISM
From Michel Foucault: The Carceral (included in chapter readings, above) (See, this introduction) (History)
(Power)
(local 1, 2, 3)
From Jean-Francois Lyotard: The
Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (local)
13. FEMINIST THEORY: Sex, Gender, and Queer Theory
From Dorothy Smith: Women's
Experience as a Radical Critique of Sociology
From Patricia Hill Collins: Is
the Personal Still Political?
From Patricia Hill Collins, "Black Feminist Thought" (included in chapter readings, above)
From Candace West and Don Zimmerman, "Doing Gender" (included in chapter readings, above)
From Steven Seidman, "Deconstructing Queer Theory" (included in chapter readings, above)
14. Race: W.E.B. Du Bois- Double-Consciousness and the Public Intellectual and Critical Race Theory
From W. E. B. Du
Bois: The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
From W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black
Folk
From David Hollinger, "The Concept of Post-Racial" (included in chapter readings, above)
From From Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory (included in chapter readings, above)
From Anthony Appiah, "Reconstructing Racial Identities" (included in chapter readings, above)
15.
GLOBALIZATION
Joseph F. Stiglitz:
Globalism
and its Discontents
From David Held and Anthony McGrew, "Divided World, Divided Nations" (included in chapter readings, above)
Ritzer, George. 2003.
"Rethinking Globalization: Glocalization/Grobalization and Something/Nothing." Sociological Theory. 21:193-209.
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