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PublisherMcgraw-Hill Education

ISBN-100078026849

ISBN-139780078026843

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Number of Pages464 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameReadings in Social Theory

SubjectSociology / General

Publication Year2013

TypeTextbook

AuthorJames Farganis

Subject AreaSocial Science

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight23.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width7.3 in

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Edition Number7

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2012-041977

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromCollege Freshman

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Grade ToCollege Freshman

Dewey Decimal301.01

Table Of ContentPreface 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 From Karl Max and Frederick Engels, The German Ideology 2. Emile Durkheim: Anomie and Social Integration Introduction From Emile Durkehim, 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 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" Part Two: Contemporary Sociological Theory 6. Functionalism Introduction From Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, "Some Principles of Stratification" From Talcott Parsons, "The System of Modern Societies" From Talcott Parsons, Age and Sex in the Social Structure of the United States From Robert K. Merton, "Manifest and Latent Functions" 7. 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" 8. Exchange Theory and Rational Choice Introduction From Peter Blau: "The Structure of Social Associations" From James Coleman, "Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital" 9. Phenomenological Sociology and Ethnomethodology Introduction From Peter Berger, "The Sacred Canopy" From Harold Garfinkel, "Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities" 10. 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 11: Critical Theory Introduction From Herbert Marcuse, "One-Dimensional Man" From Jurgen Habermas, "Religion in the Public Sphere" 12. 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 13. Sex, Gender, Queer Theory 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" 14. Critical Race Theory Introduction From David Hollinger, "The Concept of Post-Racial" From From W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk From From Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory From Anthony Appiah, "Reconstructing Racial Identities" Part Five: Globalization 15. Global Society: Two Perspectives Introduction From David Held and Anthony McGrew, "Divided World, Divided Nations" From Joseph Stiglitz, "Globalism's Discontents"

SynopsisThis established anthology of primary readings provides a firm foundation in sociological theory. Concepts are expressed through the most influential thinkers in each of the classic, contemporary, modernist, and postmodernist eras.

LC Classification NumberHM585.R43 2013