Concise Reader in Sociological Theory: Theorists, Concepts, and Current Applications

ISBN-13: 9781119536185 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 336 str.

Michele Dillon

Spis treści

Introduction 1Part I Classical Theorists 71 Karl Marx 91A Karl Marx from Wage Labour and Capital 12II 131B Karl Marx and Frederick Engels from Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 17Profit of Capital 191C Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels from The German Ideology 272 Emile Durkheim 312A Emile Durkheim from The Rules of Sociological Method 34What is a Social Fact? 34II 372B Emile Durkheim from Suicide: A Study in Sociology 413 Max Weber 473A Max Weber from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 50Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification 503B Max Weber from Economy and Society 65The Definition of Sociology and of Social Action 65Types of Social Action 713C Max Weber from Essays in Sociology 75Bureaucracy 75Structures of Power 77Class, Status, Party 78The Sociology of Charismatic Authority 80Science as a Vocation 83Part II Structural Functionalism, Conflict, and Exchange Theories 894 Structural Functionalism 914A Robert K. Merton from On Social Structure and Science 94The Ethos of Science 94Universalism 94"Communism" 95Disinterestedness 95Organized Skepticism 975 Conflict and Dependency Theories 995A Ralf Dahrendorf from Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society 1015B Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto from Dependency and Development in Latin America 107Theory of Dependency and Capitalistic Development 1076 Social Exchange 1116A Peter M. Blau from Exchange and Power in Social Life 1136B James S. Coleman from Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital 116Social Capital 116Human Capital and Social Capital 118Forms of Social Capital 1186C Paula England from Sometimes the Social Becomes Personal: Gender, Class, and Sexualities 120Defining Terms 121Explaining the Gender Differences 123Part III Symbolic Interaction, Phenomenology, and Ethnomethodology 1297 Symbolic Interaction 1317A George H. Mead from Mind, Self & Society 134From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist 1347B Erving Goffman from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life 136Introduction 1368 Phenomenology 1418A Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann from The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge 143The Reality of Everyday Life 143Origins of Institutionalization 1479 Ethnomethodology 1599A Harold Garfinkel from Studies in Ethnomethodology 161Practical Sociological Reasoning: Doing Accounts in "Common Sense Situations of Choice" 1619B Sarah Fenstermaker and Candace West from Doing Gender, Doing Difference: Inequality, Power, and Institutional Change 166"Difference" as an Ongoing Interactional Accomplishment 166Common Misapprehensions 168The Dynamics of Doing Difference 169Part IV Major Postwar European Influences On Sociological Theory 17310 Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School 17510A Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno from Dialectic of Enlightenment 17910B Jurgen Habermas from The Theory of Communicative Action: Reason and the Rationalization of Society 18411 Pierre Bourdieu 18911A Pierre Bourdieu from The Forms of Capital 191Cultural Capital 193Social Capital 19411B Pierre Bourdieu from Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste 196Class Condition and Social Conditioning 198The Habitus and the Space of Life-Styles 19912 Michel Foucault and Queer Theory 20912A Michel Foucault from The History of Sexuality 212Method 21412B Steven Seidman from Queer Theory/Sociology 217Part V Standpoint Theories Amid Globalization 22313 Feminist Theories 22513A Charlotte Perkins Gilman from The Man-Made World or Our Androcentric Culture 22913B Arlie Hochschild from Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure 231Framing Rules and Feeling Rules: Issues in Ideology 23113C Dorothy E. Smith from The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge 233Relations of Ruling and Objectified Knowledge 235Women's Exclusion from the Governing Conceptual Mode 235Women Sociologists and the Contradiction between Sociology and Experience 236The Standpoint of Women as a Place to Start 23813D Patricia Hill Collins from Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 238Black Feminist Thought as Critical Social Theory 238Why U.S. Black Feminist Thought? 242Black Women as Agents of Knowledge 243Toward Truth 24613E Patricia Hill Collins from Intersectionality's Definitional Dilemmas 249Racial Formation Theory, Knowledge Projects, and Intersectionality 249Epistemological Challenges 25213F R.W. Connell and James W. Messerschmidt from Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept 254What Should Be Retained 257What Should Be Rejected 258Gender Hierarchy 25814 Postcolonial Theories 26314A W. E. Burghardt Du Bois from The Souls of Black Folk 26714B Edward W. Said from Orientalism 27014C Frantz Fanon from Black Skin, White Masks 273The Fact of Blackness 27314D Stuart Hall from Cultural Identity and Diaspora 27614E Raewyn Connell, Fran Collyer, Joao Maia, and Robert Morrell from Toward a Global Sociology of Knowledge: Post-Colonial Realities and Intellectual Practices 279Southern Situations and Global Arenas 28014F Alondra Nelson from The Social Life of DNA: Racial Reconciliation and Institutional Morality after the Genome 282Postgenomic 282Reconciliation Projects 284Slavery and Justice 28515 Globalization and the Reassessment of Modernity 28715A Zygmunt Bauman from Liquid Modernity 290After the Nation-state 29015B Anthony Giddens from Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age 29615C Ulrich Beck from Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity 300On the Logic of Wealth Distribution and Risk Distribution 30015D Ulrich Beck and Edgar Grande from Varieties of Second Modernity: The Cosmopolitan Turn in Social and Political Theory and Research 30515E Jurgen Habermas from Notes on Post-Secular Society 307The Descriptive Account of a "Post-Secular Society" - and the Normative Issue of How Citizens of Such a Society Should Understand Themselves 307Index 311

O autorze

MICHELE DILLON is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire, USA, and was educated at University College Dublin, Ireland, and the University of California, Berkeley, USA. She has many years of experience teaching sociological theory to undergraduate and graduate students, and, among a wide range of publications, she is the author of Introduction to Sociological Theory, Third Edition (Wiley, 2020).