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This social theory text combines the structure of a print reader with the ability to tailor the course via an extensive interactive website. Readings from important classical and contemporary theorists are placed in conversation with one another through core themes—the puzzle of social order, the dark side of modernity, identity, etc. The website includes videos, interactive commentaries, summaries of key concepts, exams and quizzes, annotated selections from key readings, classroom activities, and more. See the website at www.routledgesoc.com/theory New to the second edition: Expanded web content. Teacher/student feedback employed to clarify difficult concepts. Reframed contemporary section now offers readings by Robert Merton, Bruno Latour, David Harvey, Zygmut Bauman, and Anthony Giddens.

Table of Contents:
Preface I. EMERGENCE THROUGH CONVERGENCE: The Puzzles of Social Order Introductory Essay: This Deserted Island is Out of Order Classical Connections: Emile Durkheim 1. Emile Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method 2. Emile Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Society 3. Emile Durkheim, Suicide 4. Emile Durkheim, Elementary Forms of Religious Life Contemporary Extensions: Social Order Re-Wired 5. Robert Merton, Manifest and Latent Functions 6. Harold Garfinkel, Studies in Ethnomethodology 7. Bruno Latour, Mixing Humans and nonhuman Together: The Sociology of a Door-Closer 8. Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality II. NETWORKS OF CAPITAL: Dimensions of Global Capitalism Introductory Essay: Salvaging What Wall Street Left Behind Classical Connections: Karl Marx 9. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology 10. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party 11. Karl Marx, Capital 12. Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Contemporary Extensions: Capital Re-Wired 13. Immanuel Wallerstein, The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System 14. Manuel Castells, Materials for an Exploratory Theory of the Network Society 15. Pierre Bourdieu, The Forms of Capital 16. Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction 17. David Harvey, Capitalism: The Factory of Fragmentation III. PATHWAY TO MELTDOWN: Theorizing the Dark Side of Modernity Introductory Essay: Your Smart Phone Might Be an Evil Genius Classical Connections: Max Weber 18. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 19. Max Weber, Basic Sociological Terms 20. Max Weber, The Types of Legitimate Domination 21. Max Weber, Bureaucracy 22. Max Weber, Class, Status, Party Contemporary Extensions: The Rational Society Re-Wired 23. Herbert Marcuse, One–Dimensional Man 24. Jurgen Habermas, Toward a Rational Society 25. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish 26. Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust IV. SHIFTING THE PARADIGM: Excluded Voices, Alternative Knowledges Introductory Essay: Webs Of Knowledge in the Digital Divide Classical Connections: W.E.B. DuBois and Simone de Beauvoir 27. W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk 28. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex Contemporary Extensions: Paradigms Re-Wired 29. Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States 30. Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks 31. Edward Said, Orientalism 32. Dorothy Smith, The Conceptual Practices of Power 33. Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought V. RISE OF THE AVATAR: Connecting Self and Society Introductory Essay: Through the Looking-Glass of Facebook Classical Connections: George Herbert Mead and Georg Simmel 34. George Herbert Mead, Self 35. Georg Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life 36. Georg Simmel, The Stranger Contemporary Extensions: Identity Re-Wired 37. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life 38. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality 39. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble 40. Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity Glossary Index

About the Author :
Wesley Longhofer is Assistant Professor of Organization and Management at Emory University. Daniel Winchester is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781317687177
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 542
  • Sub Title: New Connections to Classical and Contemporary Perspectives
  • ISBN-10: 1317687175
  • Publisher Date: 31 Mar 2016
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 542
  • Series Title: Sociology Re-Wired


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