Adapted from: Farganis, James (editor). Reading in Social Theory: The Classic Traditiona to Post-Modernism, 6th edition. McGraw-Hill. St. Louis. 2010
James Farganis: The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernism: An Overview
1.
KARL MARX: ALIENATION, CLASS STRUGGLE,
AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS
From Karl
Marx and Frederick Engels: The Manifesto of the Communist Party
From Karl Marx: Economic
and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (selection)
From Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: The
German Ideology
From Karl
Marx: The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof
2. EMILE DURKHEIM: ANOMIE AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION
From Emile Durkheim: 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
From Max Weber: The
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
From Max Weber: Bureaucracy
(see also)
From Max Weber: "Objectivity" in Social Science and Social Policy (see also)
From Max Weber: Class, Status, Party (see also)
4. GEORG SIMMEL: DIALECTIC OF INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY
From Georg Simmel: The
Metropolis and Mental Life
From Georg Simmel: The
Stranger
5. GEORGE HERBERT MEAD: THE EMERGENT SELF
George Herbert
Mead: The
Emergent Self
From George
Herbert Mead: Mind, Self, and Society (see also
and this)
6. W.E.B. Du BOIS: Double-Consciousness and the Public Intellectual
From W. E. B. Du
Bois: The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
From W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black
Folk
7. FUNCTIONALISM
From Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore: Some
Principles of Stratification (see also)
From Talcott Parsons: The
System of Modern Societies and Various
works
From Robert K. Merton: Manifest
and Latent Functions
8. CONFLICT THEORY
From Ralf Dahrendorf: Social
Structure, Group Interests, and Conflict Groups (see also)
(and this)
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
From George C. Homans: Social
Behavior as Exchange The
human group and elementary social behaviour
From Peter Blau: The Structure of Social Associations
A
Critique from Africa
From James S. Coleman: Social
Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
10. PHENOMENOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGY AND ETHNOMETHODOLOGY
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
From Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman: Doing
Gender
11. SYMBOLIC INTERACTION
From Herbert Blumer: Society
as Symbolic Interaction
From Erving Goffman: The
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
From Arlie Hochschild: Exploring
the Managed Heart
12. FEMINIST THEORY
From Dorothy Smith: Women's
Experience as a Radical Critique of Sociology (excerpt) (analysis)
From Patricia Hill Collins: Is
the Personal Still Political?
13. CRITICAL THEORY
From Herbert Marcuse:
One-Dimensional Man
From Juergen Habermas: Religion
in the Public Sphere (local)
14. POST-MODERNISM
From Michel Foucault: The Carceral (See, this introduction) (History)
(Power)
(local 1, 2,
3)
From Jean-Francois Lyotard: The
Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (local)
Bourdieu
Giddens
Coleman
Ritzer
Beck
Joseph F. Stiglitz: Globalism and its Discontents
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