2nd Edition
Social Theory Re-Wired New Connections to Classical and Contemporary Perspectives
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.
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
Biography
Wesley Longhofer is Assistant Professor of Organization and Management at Emory University.
Daniel Winchester is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University.
