Social Theory Re-wired - New Connections to Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

This social theory text combines the structure of a print reader with the flexibility of an interactive website. The reader includes original texts from classical and contemporary theorists as well as short synopses of key ideas and brief biographies of each theorist. The website will contain a wide variety of innovative material that the instructor can use to tailor his or her social theory course, including videos and animations; discussion forums with webcam capabilities; commentaries and summaries of key concepts, including extended historical content; exams and quizzes; annotated selections from key readings; classroom activities; and links to supplemental texts. The combination of a print reader and a modular online component will appeal to instructors looking to move parts of their course online or instructors already teaching in an online setting.

List of contents

Part I: Introduction Part II: Origins 1. Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762) 2. August Comte, The Positive Philosophy of August Comte (1853) 3. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776) 4. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835) Part III: Marx 5. Karl Marx, Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) 6. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology (1845) 7. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) 8. Karl 9. Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 (1844) 10. Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1867) 11. Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System (1976) Part IV: Durkheim 12. Emile Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method (1895) 13. Emile Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Modern Society (1893) 14. Emile Durkheim, Suicide (1897) 15. Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912) 16. Robert Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure (1949) 17. Talcott Parsons, The Structure of Social Action Volume I (1968) V. Weber 18. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904-5) 19. Max Weber, The Theory of Social and Economic Organization (1914) 20. Gerth and Mills (eds.), From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (1946) 21. Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and Holocaust (1989) Part VI: Simmel 22. Georg Simmel, Conflict and the Web of Group Affiliations (1922) 23. Georg Simmel, On Individuality and Social Forms (edited by Levine, 1971) Part VI: Self 23. George 24. Herbert Mead, Mind, Self, and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist (1934) 25. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959) 26. Erving Goffman, Stigma (1963) 27. Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise on the Sociology of Knowledge (1966) Part VII: Bourdieu 29. Pierre Bourdieu, "Social Space and Symbolic Space: Introduction to a Japanese Reading of Distinction" (1991) 30. Pierre Bourdieu, The Logic of Practice (1990) 31. Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (1987) Part VIII: Foucault 32. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (1970) 33. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, volume 1 (1976) 34. Michael Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975) 35. Michel Foucault, (ed.) Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 (edited by Colin Gordon, 1980) Part IX: Giddens 36. Anthony Giddens, The Constitution of Society. Outline of the Theory of Structuration (1984) 37. Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity (1990) 38. Anthony Giddens, Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping Our Lives (1999) Part X: Critiques 39. Charlotte Perkins Stetson [Gilman], "The Yellow Wall-Paper." (1892) 40. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) 41. Dorothy Smith, The Conceptual Practices of Power (1990) 42. Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought (2000) 43. W.E.B. DuBois, Souls of Black Folk (1903) 44. Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (1952) 45. Edward Said, Orientalism (1978)

About the author

Wesley Longhofer is an assistant professor in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. He teaches courses in corporate social responsibility and conducts research on philanthropy, globalization, and civic engagement. Daniel Winchester is a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota. His research and teaching interests are in social and cultural theory, religion, morality, and the sociology of the self. Both Wes and Dan were Graduate Editors for Contexts, a publication of the ASA that makes sociology interesting and relevant to a non-academic, public audience

Product details

• Authors: Wesley Longhofer, Daniel Winchester
• Assisted by: Wesley Longhofer (Editor), Daniel Winchester (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 12.01.2012, delayed
• EAN: 9780415886543
• ISBN: 978-0-415-88654-3
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Contemporary Sociological Pers
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories