PrefaceIntroduction: The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernism: An OverviewPart 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 PartyFrom Karl Marx, The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof2. Emile Durkheim: Anomie and Social Integration IntroductionFrom Emile Durkheim, Egoistic Suicide and Anomic Suicide From Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life3. Max Weber: The Iron Cage Introduction From Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismFrom Max Weber, Bureaucracy From Max Weber, Class, Status, Party From Max Weber, Power, Domination & Types of Authority4. Georg Simmel: Dialectic of Individual and Society Introduction From Georg Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life From Georg Simmel, The Stranger5. George Herbert Mead: The Emergent Self Introduction From George Herbert Mead, Mind, Self, and Society 6. W.E.B. Du Bois: Double Consciousness and the Public Intellectual Introduction From W.E.B. Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro: A Social StudyFrom W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black FolkPart Two: Contemporary Sociological Theory 7. Functionalism Introduction From Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, Some Principles of Stratification From Talcott Parsons, The System of Modern Societies From Robert K. Merton, Manifest and Latent Functions 8. 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 Diversity9. Exchange Theory and Rational Choice Introduction From George C. Homans, Social Behavior as Exchange From James Coleman, Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital 10. Phenomenological Sociology and Ethnomethodology Introduction From Alfred Schutz, Common-Sense and Scientific Interpretation of Human Action From Peter Berger, The Sacred CanopyFrom Harold Garfinkel, Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities11. Symbolic Interaction Introduction From Herbert Blumer, Society as Symbolic Interaction From Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday LifeFrom Arlie Hochschild, Exploring the Managed Heart Part Three: Modernism and Post-Modernism12: Critical Theory Introduction From Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man From Jurgen Habermas, Religion in the Public Sphere 13. Post-Modernism Introduction From Michel Foucault, The Carceral From Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge Part Four: After Post-Modernism14. Sex, Gender, Queer Theory and RaceIntroductionFrom Dorothy Smith, Women's Experience as a Radical Critique of SociologyFrom Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist ThoughtFrom Candace West and Don Zimmerman, Doing GenderFrom Steven Seidman, Deconstructing Queer TheoryFrom Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, Critical Race TheoryPart Five: Globalization15. Global Society: Two PerspectivesIntroductionFrom Ulrich Beck, The Terrorist Threat: World Risk Society RevisitedFrom Joseph Stiglitz, Globalism's Discontents
