Social theory: roots and branches

✍ Scribed by Peter Kivisto

• Publisher: Roxbury
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 459
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

pt. 1. The roots : classical social theory: 1. Karl Marx: Alienated labor. Theses on Feuerbach. Manifesto of the Communist Party / (with Friedrich Engels). Commodities. The general formula for capital ; 2. Émile Durkheim: On mechanical and organic solidarity. What is a social fact?. Anomic suicide. Primitive classification / (with Marcel Mauss). The human meaning of religion ; 3. Max Weber: "Objectivity" in social science. The spirit of capitalism. Bureaucracy. The nature of charismatic domination. Class, status, partyy ; 4. Georg Simmel: Fashion. The problem of sociology. Conflict as the basis of group formation. The stranger. Flirtation ; 5. Voices outside the discipline: The madman / Friedrich Nietzsche. What pragmatism means / William James. Civilization and its discontents / Sigmund Freud. The fusion of the "I" and "me" in social activities / George Herbert Mead ; 6. Negelcted voices: The conservation of races / W.E.B. Du Bois. The dependence of women / Charlotte Perkins Graham. Utilization of women in city government / Jane Addams. Feminism and conventionality / Elsie Clews Parsons --
pt. 2. The branches : contemporary social theory: 7. Functionalism and nonfunctionalism: The unanticipates consequences of social action / Robert K. Merton. Functional prerequisites of social systems / Talcott Parsons. Functional differentiation / Niklas Luhmann. After neofunctionalism / Jeffrey Alexander ; 8. Conflict theory: The functions of social conflict / Lewis Coser ; Culture and politics / C. Wright Mills ; Conflcit groups and group conflict / Ralf Dahrendorf ; The basis of conflict theory / Randall Collins ; 9. Symbolic interactionism: Membership and history / Anselm StraussSociety as symbolic interaction / Herbert Blumer. Bases of fun / Erving Goffman. The drama in the routine : a prolegomenon to a praxiological society / Stanford M. Lyman ; 10. Phenomenology and ethnomethodology: Indirect social relationships / Alfred Schutz. Rules of conversational sequence / Harvey Sacks. The rational properties of scientific and common sense activities / Harold Garfinkel. Partnership / Aron Gurwitsch ; 11. Exchange theory and rational choice theory: Social behavior change / George C. Homans. Human capital and soial capital / James S. Coleman. The emergence of cooperative social institutions / Michael hechter. Formulation of exchange theory / Peter Blau ; 12. Feminist theory: Subversive bodily acts / Judith Butler. Toward an Afrocentric frminst epistemology / Patricia Hill Collins. Sociology from women's experience : a reaffirmation / Dorothy E. Smith. Rethinking Freud on women / Nancy Chodorow ; 13. Critical theory: Philosophy and critical theory / Herbert Marcuse. Traditional and critical theory / Max Horkheimer. On systematically distorted communication / Jürgen Habermas. The divergent rationalities of administrative action / Claus Offe ; 14. postmodernism and poststructuralism: Advertising / Jean Baudrillard. Panopticism / Michel Foucault. Postmodernity, of living with ambiguity / Zygmunt Bauman. Modern and postmodern / Mike Featherstone ; 15. Further directions: Shame and repugnance / Norbert Elias ; Structures and the habitus / Pierre Bourdieu. The time-space constitution of social systems / Anthony Giddens. Queer-ing sociology, socializing queer theory / Steven Seidman.