Readings in Social Theory / Edition 6

by James Farganis

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780078111556
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date:	03/23/2010
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

James Farganis was born and raised in New York City, attended its public schools and received his B.A. from Brooklyn College and Ph.D. from Cornell University. He has taught sociology at several colleges and universities. He is now affiliated with the New School for Social Research.

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"