Readings in Social Theory The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernism

Name: Readings in Social Theory The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernism
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ISBN: 9780073528137

ISBN-10: 0073528137

ISBN-13: 9780073528137

Edition: 5th 2008

Authors: James Farganis

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

Book details

List price: $102.00
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 3/5/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

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.



Introduction: The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernism: An Overview


The Classic Tradition


Alienation, Class Struggle, and Class Consciousness


Introduction


The Manifesto of the Communist Party


Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844


The German Ideology


Fetishism of Commodities


Anomie and Social Integration Introduction


The Rules of Sociological Method


"Egoistic Suicide and Anomic Suicide"


The Elementary Forms of Religious Life


Max Weber: The Iron Cage


Introduction


The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism


"Bureaucracy"


"'Objectivity' in Social Science and Social Policy"


"Class, Status, Party"


Georg Simmel: Dialectic of Individual and Society


Introduction


"The Metropolis and Mental Life"


The Stranger


George Herbert Mead: The Emergent Self


Introduction


From George Herbert Mead, Mind, Self, and Society


Double Consciousness and the Public Intellectual


Introduction


The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study


The Souls of Black Folk


Contemporary Sociological Theory


Functionalism


Introduction


"Some Principles of Stratification"


"Age and Sex in the Social Structure of the United States"


"Manifest and Latent Functions"


Conflict Theory


Introduction


"Social Structure, Group Interests, and Conflict Groups"


"The Structure of Power in America"


Diversity in the Power Elite


Exchange Theory and Rational Choice


Introduction


"The Structure of Social Associations"


"Social Behavior as Exchange"


"Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital"


Phenomenological Sociology and Ethnomethodology


Introduction


"Common-Sense and Scientific Interpretation of Human Action"


The Sacred Canopy


Studies in Ethnomethodology


“Doing Gender”


Symbolic Interaction


Introduction


"Society as Symbolic Interaction"


The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life


"Exploring the Managed Heart"


Feminist Theory


Introduction


"Women's Experience as a Radical Critique of Sociology"


"Is the Personal Still Political?"


Modernity and Post-Modernity


Critical Theory


Introduction


One Dimensional Man


"Religion in the Public Sphere"


Post-Modernism


Introduction


"The Carceral"


The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge