Social Theory, Volume I

A Reader: From Classical to Modern Theory
Herausgeber: Garner, Roberta; Hancock, Black Hawk

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a fresh and expansive take on social theory that foregrounds a plurality of perspectives and reflects contemporary trends in the field, while being an accessible and manageable teaching tool.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 203mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9781442607354
• ISBN-10: 1442607351
• Artikelnr.: 40402424

Autorenporträt

Edited by Roberta Garner and Black Hawk Hancock

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Reading Theory: A General Introduction
Part I: Beginnings
Introduction
Chapter 1: Inventing the Lens
Introduction
1.1 Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Machiavelli's The Prince (1532)
Reading 1.1: Excerpts from The Prince (1532)
1.2 Irving M. Zeitlin (1928-), the Enlightenment, and the Conservative
Reaction
Reading 1.2: Excerpts from Ideology and the Development of Social Theory
(1968)
1.3 Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Reading 1.3: Excerpts from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
1.4 Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Kant's "What is Enlightenment?" (1784)
Reading 1.4: "What Is Enlightenment?" (1784)
1.5 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals (1887)
Reading 1.5: Excerpts from On the Genealogy of Morals (1887)
1.6 A word about Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Part II: Classical Theory
Introduction
Suggested Readings: Part II
Chapter 2: Marxist Theory
2.1 Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
Marx and Engels on Capitalism and Communism: The Communist Manifesto
(1848)
Reading 2.1.1: Excerpts from The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Marx and Engels on Ideas and Ideology: The German Ideology (written
1845-1846, published 1932)
Reading 2.1.2: Excerpts from The German Ideology (written 1845-1846,
published 1932)
Marx's Early Writings: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (written 1844,
published 1932)
Reading 2.1.3: "Estranged Labour" from The Economic and Philosophic
Manuscripts (written 1844, published 1932)
Marx on Capitalism, Commodity Fetishism, and Machinery and Technology:
Capital (1867)
Reading 2.1.4: "The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof" and
"The Factory" from Capital (1867)
2.2 The Legacy of Marx and Engels
Stanley Aronowitz (1933-) and William DiFazio (1947-)
Aronowitz and DiFazio's The Jobless Future (1994)
Reading 2.2.1: Excerpts from The Jobless Future (1994)
David Harvey (1935-)
David Harvey's A Brief History of Neo-Liberalism (2005)
Reading 2.2.2: "Why the Neoliberal Turn?" from A Brief History of
Neo-Liberalism (2005)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Chapter 3: The Social Theory of Emile Durkheim
3.1 Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
Durkheim's Sociology: General Orientation, Early Works, and a Reflection on
Crime—The Rules of Sociological Method (1895)
Reading 3.1.1: The Rules of Sociological Method (1895)
Durkheim's Suicide (1897) and the Concept of Anomie
Reading 3.1.2: Excerpts from Suicide (1897)
Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912) and the Social
Production of Concepts
Reading 3.1.3: Selection from the Conclusion of The Elementary Forms of
Religious Life (1912)
3.2 The Legacy of Durkheim
Robert K. Merton (1910-2003)
Merton's "Social Structure and Anomie" (1938)
Reading 3.2: Merton's "Social Structure and Anomie" (1938)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Chapter 4: The Social Theory of Max Weber
Max Weber (1864-1920)
Weber's Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
(1921-1922)
Reading 4.1.1: Excerpts from Weber's Economy and Society: An Outline of
Interpretive Sociology (1921-1922)
Reading 4.1.2: Excerpt from "Science as a Vocation" (1919)
4.2 The Legacy of Weber: George Ritzer and Theda Skocpol
George Ritzer (1940-)
Ritzer's The McDonaldization of Society (1993)
Reading 4.2.1: Excerpts from George Ritzer's The McDonaldization of Society
(1993)
Theda Skocpol (1947-)
Skocpol, Contemporary Political Life, and the Weberian Legacy
Reading 4.2.2: Skocpol's "The Narrowing of Civic Life" (2004)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Chapter 5: The Individual in Society: Simmel and Freud
5.1 Georg Simmel (1858-1918)
Simmel's Social Theory: The Philosophy of Money (1907) and "The Metropolis
and Mental Life" (1903)
Reading 5.1.1: "The Miser and the Spendthrift" from Simmel's The Philosophy
of Money (1900)
Reading 5.1.2: "The Metropolis and Mental Life" (1903)
5.2 The Legacy of Simmel: David Riesman (1909-2002)
Riesman's Analysis of an Emerging Character Type: The Lonely Crowd (1950)
Reading 5.2: Excerpts from Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd (1950)
5.3 Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Freud on the Individual and Society: Introductory lectures on
Psycho-Analysis (1915)
Reading 5.3: Excerpts from Freud's Introductory lectures on Psycho-Analysis
(1915)
5.4 The Legacy of Freud: Juliet Mitchell and Others
Freud's Legacy: Juliet Mitchell and Others
Reading 5.4: Excerpts from Juliet Mitchell's Psychoanalysis and Feminism
(1974)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Part II: Questions and Exercises
Part III: The Middle Years
Introduction
Suggested Readings: Part III
Chapter 6: The American Emergence
Introduction
Charles Cooley (1864-1929) and George Herbert Mead (1863-1931)
Cooley, Mead, and the Microsociological Tradition: Mead's Mind, Self, and
Society (1934)
Reading 6.1: Mead's Mind, Self, and Society (1934)
6.2 The Legacy of Cooley and Mead: Patricia Adler (1951-) and Peter Adler
(1951-)
The Adlers and the Self in Society
Reading 6.2: Patricia and Peter Adler's "The Gloried Self" (1989)
6.3 W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1983)
The Social Theory of Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
Reading 6.3.1: Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
Reading 6.3.2: Du Bois's "The Souls of White Folk," Darkwater (1920)
6.4 The Chicago School: St. Clair Drake (1911-1990) and Horace Cayton
(1903-1970)
The Chicago School and Drake and Cayton's The Black Metropolis (1945)
Reading 6.4: Drake and Cayton's The Black Metropolis (1945)
6.5 The Legacy of American Sociology: William Julius Wilson (1935-)
Wilson's Analysis of Institutional Segregation and Joblessness: When Work
Disappears (1996)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Chapter 7: Reconstructed Marxism
Introduction
7.1 Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
Benjamin on Art and the Media: "The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical
Reproduction" (1936)
Reading 7.1: Benjamin's "The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical
Reproduction" (1936)
7.2 Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse: Exiles in Paradise
Adorno and Horkheimer's Critique of Culture: The Dialectic of Enlightenment
(1944)
Reading 7.2: Adorno and Horkheimer's "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment
as Mass Deception" from The Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)
7.3 Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Gramsci's Analysis of Hegemony and the Formation of Intellectuals: The
Prison Notebooks (written 1929-1935)
Reading 7.3: Excerpts from Gramsci's Prison Notebooks (1929-1935)
7.4 The Legacy of Gramsci: Jean Anyon (1941-2013)
Gramsci's "Organizers of Society" and Anyon's "Executive Elite" Schools
Reading 7.4: Anyon's "Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work"
(1980)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Chapter 8: American Hegemony and Its Critics
Introduction
Structural Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Symbolic Interactionism
8.1: Structural Functionalism: Talcott Parsons (1902-1979)
Parsons and Structural-Functional Sociology
Reading 8.1.1: Parsons's "An Outline of the Social System," from Theories
of Society (1961)
Parsons and the Sociology of Illness and Medicine
Reading 8.1.2: Parsons's "Illness and the Role of the Physician" (1951)
8.2 Conflict Theory: Critic of Hegemony C. Wright Mills (1916-1962)
Mills and Conflict Theory: The Power Elite (1956)
Reading 8.2: Mills's The Power Elite (1956)
8.3 Symbolic Interactionism: An alternative to Structural
Functionalism—Howard S. Becker (1928-)
Symbolic Interactionism: The Social Theory of Howard S. Becker
Reading 8.3: Excerpt from Becker's Outsiders (1963)
8.4 Consumerism and "False Needs": The Critique of Modern Capitalist
Culture—Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
Marcuse's One Dimensional Man (1964)
8.5 Structural Marxist Theory: Louis Althusser (1918-1990)
Althusser and Structural Marxist Theory
Reading 8.5: Excerpts from Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State
Apparatuses" (1970)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Sources