The Development of Sociological Theory: Readings from the Enlightenment to the Present / Edition 1

by A. Javier Trevino

Overview

The Development of Sociological Theory: Readings from the Enlightenment to the Present brings together excerpts from 96 original works by important theorists from the roots of sociological thought through the contemporary and post-modern periods. Noted theory scholar A. Javier Treviño has created an anthology with breadth and variety, while staying mainly within theoretical schools and traditions that are sociological. The selections have been selected and edited for classroom use and are presented according to two orderings—as a rough chronology that illustrates the historical development of theoretical knowledge in sociology and as a typology of systems of sociological theorizing for more methodical consideration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506304069
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/15/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	552
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

A. Javier Treviño is the author and editor of several books including The Social Thought of C. Wright Mills (SAGE, 2012), Investigating Social Problems (SAGE, 2014) and C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution: An Exercise in the Art of Sociological Imagination (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). He has served as President of the Justice Studies Association (2000–2002) and as President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (2010–2011). He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, UK (2006), a Fulbright Scholar to the Republic of Moldova (2009), and since 2014 has been a Visiting Professor in Social and Political Theory at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Table of Contents

PART I. THE NATURE, STRUCTURE, AND TYPES OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
On Intellectual Craftsmanship - C. Wright Mills
The Importance of General Theory - Talcott Parsons
Middle-Range Theories - Robert K. Merton
Theory as Explanation - George C. Homans
The Oversocialized View of Human Nature - Dennis H. Wrong
The Theoretical Infrastructure - Alvin W. Gouldner
PART II. THE ENLIGHTENMENT ROOTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
The Problem of Order - Thomas Hobbes
The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Laws, Mores, and Manners - Charles de Montesquieu
PART III. PROTOSOCIOLOGY
An Unjust Social Order - Henri de Saint-Simon
The Hierarchical Structure of Society - Henri de Saint-Simon
Order and Progress - Auguste Comte
Law of the Three Stages - Auguste Comte
Social Progress - Herbert Spencer
The Evolution of Society - Herbert Spencer
The General Happiness - Harriet Martineau
Folkways and Mores - William Graham Sumner
In-Groups, Out-Groups, and Ethnocentrism - William Graham Sumner
PART IV. THE CLASSICAL TRADITION
Commodity Fetishism - Karl Marx
Alienated Labor - Karl Marx
Historical Materialism - Karl Marx
Mechanical and Organic Solidarity - Émile Durkheim
Types of Suicide - Émile Durkheim
Social Facts - Émile Durkheim
The Rationalism of Western Civilization - Max Weber
The Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
Types of Authority - Max Weber
The Stranger - Georg Simmel
Dyad and Triad - Georg Simmel
The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel
PART V. THE INTERSTITIAL STATEMENTS
The Ruling Class - Gaetano Mosca
The Circulation of the Elites - Vilfredo Pareto
The Iron Law of Oligarchy - Robert Michels
The Crowd Mind - Gustave Le Bon
The Laws of Imitation - Gabriel Tarde
The Herd Instinct - Sigmund Freud
The Conscience of Society - Sigmund Freud
Conspicuous Consumption - Thorstein Veblen
Cultural Lag - William F. Ogburn
Ideational, Sensate, and Idealistic Cultures - Pitirim A. Sorokin
Imminent Sociocultural Change - Pitirim A. Sorokin
The Pattern Variables - Talcott Parsons
The Social System - Talcott Parsons
The AGIL Schema - Talcott Parsons
Manifest and Latent Functions - Robert K. Merton
Social Structure and Anomie - Robert K. Merton
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - Robert K. Merton
Structural Integration and Change - Hans H. Gerth
Character and Conformity - David Riesman
PART VII. THE CRITICAL EDGE
Social Structures, Social Conflicts, and Safety-Valve Institutions - Lewis A. Coser
Class Conflict and Structural Change - Ralf Dahrendorf
The Sociology of Knowledge - Karl Mannheim
Hegemony - Antonio Gramsci
The Reification of Consciousness - Georg Lukács
Critical Theory - Max Horkheimer
The Culture Industry - Theodor W. Adorno
The Designer as Cultural Worker - C. Wright Mills
PART VIII. THE SELF, INTERACTIONS, AND EXCHANGES
The Definition of the Situation - W. I. Thomas
Self and Society - George Herbert Mead
The Looking-Glass Self - Charles Horton Cooley
Primary Groups - Charles Horton Cooley
Performances in Everyday Life - Erving Goffman
Managing Stigma - Erving Goffman
The Meaningfully Produced Social World - Alfred Schütz
Society as Objective Reality - Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
Ethnomethodology - Harold Garfinkel
Obligatory Exchange - Marcel Mauss
Social Behavior as Exchange - George C. Homans
Reciprocity, Power Imbalance, and Dialectical Change - Peter M. Blau
Individual Interests and Systems of Exchange - James S. Coleman
PART IX. COMMUNITY AND CIVIL SOCIETY
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft - Ferdinand Tönnies
The Quest for Community - Robert A. Nisbet
Civil Religion in America - Robert N. Bellah
A Normative Theory of Moral Community - Philip Selznick
Communitarianism - Amitai Etzioni
The Civilizing Process - Norbert Elias
PART X. RACE AND GENDER
The Veil and Double Consciousness - W. E. B. Du Bois
The Talented Tenth - W. E. B. Du Bois
The Economic Status of Women - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Feminist Standpoint Theory - Dorothy E. Smith
Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins
Performative Theory of Gender Acts - Judith Butler
PART XI. SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS
Autopoietic Systems - Niklas Luhmann
Lifeworld and Social System - Jürgen Habermas
World-Systems Analysis - Immanuel Wallerstein
The Network Society - Manuel Castells
Actor-Network-Theory - Bruno Latour
PART XII. LATE MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITY
Sociological Intervention - Alain Touraine
Structuration Theory - Anthony Giddens
Ontological Security, Existential Anxiety, and Self-Identity - Anthony Giddens
Habitus - Pierre Bourdieu
The Risk Society - Ulrich Beck
Liquid Modernity - Zygmunt Bauman
Global Modernities - Roland Robertson
The Postmodern Condition - Jean-François Lyotard
Hyperreality - Jean Baudrillard

Editorial Reviews

This comprehensive selection makes a powerful case for the importance of the sociological imagination. Treviño shows how theorists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries explored the ideas of community, power, culture, race, and gender…[and] how systems, networks, and information flows are seen as driving a transition from modernity to an emerging late modern or postmodern society.”

—John Scott, University of Essex (UK) and University of Copenhagen

John Scott

A. Javier Treviño’s erudition, thoughtfulness, and flair for pedagogy shine through in every aspect of this impressive, well-crafted volume: in its overall architecture, which neatly encompasses both historical chronology and thematics; in its judicious selection of texts, which span more than two centuries of the sociological tradition; in its careful textual abridgements, which allow essential arguments and insights to be easily accessible; and in its clear, elegant, and well-informed essays at the start of each section.”

—Mustafa Emirbayer, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Mustafa Emirbayer

"Treviño has succeeded in the quite difficult task of producing an anthology that includes all the major authors and currents of sociological theory. His introductions to the readings present them clearly and concisely.”

—Sandro Segre, University of Genoa, Italy

Sandro Segre