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• List of Figures and Tables
• Preface
• About the Authors
• Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Key Concepts
  • What Is Sociological Theory?
  • Why Read Original Works?
  • Navigating Sociological Theory: The Questions of “Order” and “Action”
    • The Questions of Order and Action and the Opioid Epidemic
  • The European Enlightenment
    • The Industrial Revolution
    • ▶ Significant Others—Auguste Comte (1798–1857): The Father of “Social Physics”
    • Political and Religious Transformations
    • The French Revolution
    • Enlightenment Thinkers and the Questions of Order and Action
    • The Limits of Enlightenment
  • The Ins and Outs of the Sociological Theory “Canon”
    • Contemporary Sociological Theory
  • Discussion Questions
• Part I Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory
  • Chapter 2 Karl Marx (1818–1883)
    • Key Concepts
    • A Biographical Sketch
    • Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
      • ▶ Significant Others—Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929): The Leisure Class and Conspicuous Consumption
    • Marx’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Significant Others—Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937): Hegemony and the Ruling Ideas
      • ▶ Readings
      • Introduction to The German Ideology
      • From The German Ideology (1845–1846)
      • Introduction to Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
      • From Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
      • Introduction to The Communist Manifesto
      • From The Communist Manifesto (1848)
      • Introduction to Capital
      • From Capital (1867)
    • Discussion Questions
  • Chapter 3 Émile Durkheim (1858–1917)
    • Key Concepts
    • A Biographical Sketch
    • Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
      • ▶ Significant Others—Herbert Spencer (1820–1903): Survival of the Fittest
    • Durkheim’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Readings
      • Introduction to The Division of Labor in Society
      • From The Division of Labor in Society (1893)
      • Introduction to The Rules of Sociological Method
      • From The Rules of Sociological Method (1895)
      • Introduction to Suicide: A Study in Sociology
      • From Suicide: A Study in Sociology (1897)
      • Introduction to The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
      • From The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912)
    • Discussion Questions
  • Chapter 4 Max Weber (1864–1920)
    • Key Concepts
    • A Biographical Sketch
    • Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
      • Sociology
      • Of Nietzsche and Marx
      • ▶ Significant Others—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900): Is God Dead?
      • ▶ Significant Others—Robert Michels (1876–1936): The Iron Law of Oligarchy
    • Weber’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Readings
      • Introduction to The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
      • From The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904)
      • Introduction to “The Distribution of Power within the Political Community: Class, Status, Party”
      • From “The Distribution of Power within the Political Community: Class, Status, Party” (1925)
      • Introduction to “The Types of Legitimate Domination”
      • From “The Types of Legitimate Domination” (1925)
      • Introduction to “Bureaucracy”
      • From “Bureaucracy” (1925)
    • Discussion Questions
• Part II Classical Sociological Theory: Expanding the Foundation
  • Chapter 5 Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
    • Key Concepts
    • A Biographical Sketch
      • ▶ Significant Others—Harriet Martineau (1802–1876): The First Woman Sociologist
    • Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
    • Gilman’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Reading
      • Introduction to Women and Economics
      • From Women and Economics (1898)
    • Discussion Questions
  • Chapter 6 Georg Simmel (1858–1918)
    • Key Concepts
    • A Biographical Sketch
    • Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
      • Society
      • Sociology
      • The Individual in Modern Society
      • The Individual and Money
      • ▶ Significant Others—Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936): Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
    • Simmel’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Readings
      • Introduction to “Exchange”
      • From “Exchange” (1907)
      • Introduction to “The Stranger”
      • “The Stranger” (1908)
      • Introduction to “The Metropolis and Mental Life”
      • “The Metropolis and Mental Life” (1903)
    • Discussion Questions
  • Chapter 7 W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963)
    • Key Concepts
      • ▶ Significant Others—Anna Julia Cooper (1858–1964): A Voice from the South
    • A Biographical Sketch
    • Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
    • Du Bois’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Readings
      • Introduction to The Souls of Black Folk
      • From The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
      • Introduction to “The Souls of White Folk”
      • From “The Souls of White Folk” (1920)
    • Discussion Questions
  • Chapter 8 George Herbert Mead (1863–1931)
    • Key Concepts
    • A Biographical Sketch
    • Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
      • Pragmatism
      • Behaviorism
      • ▶ Significant Others—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929): The “Looking-Glass Self”
      • Evolutionism
      • ▶ Significant Others—William James (1842–1910): Consciousness and the Self
    • Mead’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Readings
      • Introduction to “Mind”
      • From “Mind” (1934)
      • Introduction to “Self”
      • From “Self” (1934)
    • Discussion Questions
• Part III Twentieth-Century Sociological Traditions
  • Chapter 9 Structural Functionalism
    • Key Concepts
    • Talcott C. Parsons (1902–1979): A Biographical Sketch
      • ▶ Significant Others—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962): An American Critic
    • Parsons’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
      • Action Systems and Social Systems
      • The Pattern Variables
      • AGIL
    • Parsons’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Readings
      • Introduction to “Categories of the Orientation and Organization of Action”
      • From “Categories of the Orientation and Organization of Action” (1951)
      • Introduction to “An Outline of the Social System”
      • From “An Outline of the Social System” (1961)
    • Robert K. Merton (1910–2003): A Biographical Sketch
    • Merton’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
    • Merton’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Readings
      • Introduction to “Manifest and Latent Functions”
      • From “Manifest and Latent Functions” (1949)
      • Introduction to “Social Structure and Anomie”
      • From “Social Structure and Anomie” (1968)
    • Discussion Questions
  • Chapter 10 Critical Theory
    • Key Concepts
    • Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse: Biographical Sketches
      • Theodor Adorno (1903–1969)
      • Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)
      • The Institute for Social Research
    • Adorno’s and Marcuse’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
      • Marx, Weber, and the Revolution That Wasn’t
      • ▶ Significant Others—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940): Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
      • Freud and the “Unhappy Consciousness”
    • Adorno’s and Marcuse’s Theoretical Orientations
      • ▶ Readings
      • Introduction to Theodor Adorno’s “The Culture Industry Reconsidered”
      • From “The Culture Industry Reconsidered” (1975)
      • Introduction to Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man
      • From One-Dimensional Man (1964)
    • Jürgen Habermas (1929– ): A Biographical Sketch
    • Habermas’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
      • Lifeworld and System
      • Habermas and Rational Action
      • Faith in Reason: The Public Sphere and “New” Social Movements
    • Habermas’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Readings
      • Introduction to “Civil Society, Public Opinion, and Communicative Power”
      • From “Civil Society, Public Opinion, and Communicative Power” (1996)
      • Introduction to “The Tasks of a Critical Theory of Society”
      • From “The Tasks of a Critical Theory of Society” (1987)
    • Patricia Hill Collins (1948– ): A Biographical Sketch
    • Collins’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
    • Collins’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Reading
      • Introduction to Black Feminist Thought
      • From Black Feminist Thought (1990)
    • Discussion Questions
  • Chapter 11 Exchange and Rational Choice Theories
    • Key Concepts
    • George C. Homans (1910–1989): A Biographical Sketch
    • Homans’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
      • B. F. Skinner and Behavioral Psychology
      • Classical Economics
    • Homans’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Reading
      • Introduction to “Social Behavior as Exchange”
      • From “Social Behavior as Exchange” (1958)
    • Peter M. Blau (1918–2002): A Biographical Sketch
    • Blau’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
    • Blau’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Reading
      • Introduction to Exchange and Power in Social Life
      • From Exchange and Power in Social Life (1964)
    • James S. Coleman (1926–1995): A Biographical Sketch
    • Coleman’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
      • Trust and Norms
      • The Free Rider
      • ▶ Significant Others—Michael Hechter (1943– ): Rational Choice and Group Solidarity
    • Coleman’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Reading
      • Introduction to “Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital”
      • From “Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital” (1988)
    • Discussion Questions
  • Chapter 12 Symbolic Interactionism and Dramaturgy
    • Key Concepts
    • Symbolic Interactionism: An Overview
      • ▶ Significant Others—Sheldon Stryker (1924– ) and Identity Theory
    • Erving Goffman (1922–1982): A Biographical Sketch
    • Goffman’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
      • Symbolic Interactionism: George Herbert Mead and William I. Thomas
      • Social Anthropology: Émile Durkheim, A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, and W. Lloyd Warner
      • Dramaturgy: A Synthesis
    • Goffman’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Readings
      • Introduction to The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
      • From The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959)
      • Introduction to Asylums
      • From Asylums (1961)
    • Arlie Russell Hochschild (1940– ): A Biographical Sketch
    • Hochschild’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
      • The Organismic Model
      • The Interactional Model
      • Goffman and Impression Management
      • Hochschild’s Emotion-Management Model
    • Hochschild’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Reading
      • Introduction to The Managed Heart
      • From The Managed Heart (1983)
    • Discussion Questions
  • Chapter 13 Phenomenology
    • Key Concepts
    • Alfred Schutz (1899–1959): A Biographical Sketch
    • Schutz’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
    • Schutz’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Reading
      • Introduction to The Phenomenology of the Social World
      • From The Phenomenology of the Social World (1967)
    • Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann: Biographical Sketches
      • Peter L. Berger (1929–2017)
      • Thomas Luckmann (1927–2016)
    • Berger and Luckmann’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
    • Berger and Luckmann’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Reading
      • Introduction to The Social Construction of Reality
      • From The Social Construction of Reality (1966)
    • Ethnomethodology: An Overview
      • ▶ Significant Others—Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011): The Father of Ethnomethodology
    • Dorothy E. Smith (1926– ): A Biographical Sketch
    • Smith’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
    • Smith’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Readings
      • Introduction to Institutional Ethnography
      • From Institutional Ethnography (2005)
      • Introduction to The Everyday World as Problematic
      • From The Everyday World as Problematic (1987)
    • Discussion Questions
  • Chapter 14 Poststructuralism
    • Key Concepts
    • Defining Poststructuralism
    • Michel Foucault (1926–1984): A Biographical Sketch
    • Foucault’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
    • Foucault’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Reading
      • Introduction to Discipline and Punish
      • From Discipline and Punish (1977)
    • Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002): A Biographical Sketch
    • Bourdieu’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
      • Habitus
      • Social Reproduction
      • Symbolic Struggles
    • Bourdieu’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Readings
      • Introduction to “Social Space and the Genesis of Groups”
      • From “Social Space and the Genesis of Groups” (1982)
      • Introduction to “Outline of a Sociological Theory of Art Perception”
      • From “Outline of a Sociological Theory of Art Perception” (1968)
    • Edward Said (1935–2003): A Biographical Sketch
    • Said’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
      • ▶ Significant Others—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942– ): Can the Subaltern Speak?
      • ▶ Significant Others—Frantz Fanon (1925–1961): The Father of Postcolonial Studies
    • Said’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Reading
      • Introduction to Orientalism
      • From Orientalism (1978)
    • Discussion Questions
  • Chapter 15 Postmodernism
    • Key Concepts
    • Defining Postmodernism
      • ▶ Significant Others—Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998): The Postmodern Condition
    • Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007): A Biographical Sketch
    • Baudrillard’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
    • Baudrillard’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Reading
      • Introduction to Simulacra and Simulations
      • From Simulacra and Simulations (1981)
    • Judith Butler (1956– ): A Biographical Sketch
    • Butler’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
    • Butler’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Reading
      • Introduction to Gender Trouble
      • From Gender Trouble (1990)
    • Discussion Questions
  • Chapter 16 The Global Society
    • Key Concepts
    • Defining Globalization
      • When, What, and Where?
    • Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019): A Biographical Sketch
    • Wallerstein’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
    • Wallerstein’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Reading
      • Introduction to “The Modern World-System as a Capitalist World-Economy: Production, Surplus Value, and Polarization”
      • From “The Modern World-System as a Capitalist World-Economy: Production, Surplus Value, and Polarization” (2004)
    • Anthony Giddens (1938– ): A Biographical Sketch
    • Giddens’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
      • Structuration
      • Modernity and Globalization
    • Giddens’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Reading
      • Introduction to The Consequences of Modernity
      • From The Consequences of Modernity (1990)
    • Ulrich Beck (1944–2015): A Biographical Sketch
    • Beck’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
      • Reflexive Modernization and the Risk Society
      • A Path Forward
    • Beck’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Reading
      • Introduction to “Climate for Change, or How to Create a Green Modernity?”
      • “Climate for Change, or How to Create a Green Modernity?”
    • George Ritzer (1940– ): A Biographical Sketch
    • Ritzer’s Intellectual Influences and Core Ideas
    • Ritzer’s Theoretical Orientation
      • ▶ Reading
      • Introduction to “Rethinking Globalization: Glocalization/Grobalization and Something/Nothing”
      • From “Rethinking Globalization: Glocalization/Grobalization and Something/Nothing” (2003)
    • Discussion Questions
• Glossary and Terminology
• References
• Index

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