Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)(see also, the Dead Sociologist Index):

• Part/Whole: functional analysis
• "Social Facts" (see also)
• Integration
• Solidarity and the sociology of religion
• Theory of Suicide (see also, Durkheim's theory of suicide and "Suicide")
• Anomie. (see also and this chart by Jim Spickard, or this local copy)
• Soc 3210 notes

Robert Park and Ernst Burgess:

• Social Disorganization

Talcot Parsons 1902-1979: The Social System

Robert Merton 1910--2003:

• Micro/Macro
• Theory/Methods
• Manifest and Latent Functions (The Sacred Cow in India)
• Dysfunctions.
• Soc 3210 notes

Reform tradition:

• Lester Ward 1841-1913
• Jane Addams 1860-1935

Conflict Theory:

• Macro
• Change
• Inequality and exploitation (see also: Marx, capitalism, and exploitation)
• Power
• Competition between opposing groups
• Focal concern--forces that inhibit change

Karl Marx 1818-1883:

(see also, "The Dead Sociologists' Index" on Marx, and Sociosite on Marx)

• Marx's Grave
• Marx Archives
• Marx and Engels
• Dialectics
• Materialism
• Social Class
• The Communist Manifesto (1848)
• Revolution and Alienation.
• Soc 3210 notes

W.E.B. DuBois, (see also: DuBois and The Dead Sociologist Index) 1868-1963 (online version of: The Souls of Black Folks, 1903)

C. Wright Mills 1916-1962

Feminism

Pierre Bourdieu: Social Capital/Habitus and Field

Postmodernism

Functionalism and Conflict Theory on Popular Music

• Micro
• Process
• Communication
• Interpretation
• Definition of the Situation
• Non-verbal communication
• Symbols

Max Weber 1864-1920:

Symbolic Interactionism

G. H. Mead 1863-1931:

• The Development of Self

C.H. Cooley 1864-1929:

• Primary groups, "Looking-Glass Self"

Howard Becker:

• "Becoming a Marijuana Smoker"

Erving Goffman:

• Dramaturgy
• Sidewalk Etiquette
• "Goffman's Dramaturgical Presentation" (by Robert Harsh): http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/robert.harsh/goffmanrechtm.htm
• Analysis of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Adam Barnharts' analysis from "Sociology at Hewett" (local copy)
• See also: http://ssr1.uchicago.edu/NEWPRE/CULT98/Goffman1.html
• "The Presentation of Self in Electronic Life: Goffman on the Internet," Hugh Miller, Department of Social Sciences, The Nottingham Trent University Paper presented at Embodied Knowledge and Virtual Space Conference Goldsmiths' College, University of London, June 1995 http://ess.ntu.ac.uk/miller/cyberpsych/goffman.htm
• About Goffman: http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/goffmanbio.html

• Ethnomethodology and this