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INTRODUCTION: THE CLASSIC TRADITION TO POST-MODERNISM: AN OVERVIEW


PART ONE: THE CLASSIC TRADITION
Chapter 1. Karl Marx: ALIENATION, CLASS STRUGGLE, AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS
Introduction
From Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Manifesto of the Communist Party
From Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
From Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The German Ideology
From Karl Marx, Fetishism of Commodities

Chapter 2. Émile Durkheim: ANOMIE AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION INTRODUCTION
From Émile Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method
From Émile Durkheim, "Egoistic Suicide and Anomic Suicide"
From Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
From Émile Durkheim, Individualism and the Intellectuals

Chapter 3. Max Weber: THE IRON CAGE
Introduction
From Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
From Max Weber, "Bureaucracy"
From Max Weber, "'Objectivity' in Social Science and Social Policy"
From Max Weber, "Class, Status, Party"

Chapter 4. Georg Simmel: DIALECTIC OF INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY
Introduction
From Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life"
From Georg Simmel, The Stranger

Chapter 5. George Herbert Mead: THE EMERGENT SELF
Introduction
From George Herbert Mead, Mind, Self, and Society

Chapter 6. W.E.B. Du Bois: DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL
Introduction
From W.E.B. Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
From W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
Chapter 7. FUNCTIONALISM
Introduction
From Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, "Some Principles of Stratification"
From Talcott Parsons, "Age and Sex in the Social Structure of the United States"
From Robert K. Merton, "Manifest and Latent Functions"

Chapter 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 Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff, Diversity in the Power Elite

Chapter 9. EXCHANGE THEORY AND RATIONAL CHOICE
Introduction
From Peter Blau, "The Structure of Social Associations”
From George C. Homans,”Social Behavior as Exchange”
From James Coleman, “Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital”

Chapter 10. PHENOMENOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGY AND ETHNOMETHODOLOGY
Introduction
From Alfred Schutz, "Common-Sense and Scientific Interpretation of Human Action"
From Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, "Foundations of Knowledge in Everyday Life"
From Harold Garfinkel, Studies in Ethnomethodology

Chapter 11. SYMBOLIC INTERACTION
Introduction
From Herbert Blumer, "Society as Symbolic Interaction"
From Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Chapter 12. FEMINIST THEORY
Introduction
From Dorothy Smith, "Women's Experience as a Radical Critique of Sociology"
From Michele Barrett,"Words and Things: Materialism and Method in Contemporary Feminist Analysis"

PART THREE: MODERNITY AND POST-MODERNITY
Chapter 13: CRITICAL THEORY
Introduction
From Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man
From Jürgen Habermas, "Three Normative Models of Democracy"

Chapter 14. POST-MODERNISM
Introduction
From Michel Foucault, "The Carceral"
From Jean-François Lyotard, The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge