Description: INTRODUCTION: THE CLASSIC TRADITION TO POST-MODERNISM: AN OVERVIEW PART ONE: THE CLASSIC TRADITION 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 2. emile Durkheim: ANOMIE AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION INTRODUCTION From emile Durkheim,The Rules of Sociological Method From emile Durkheim, "Egoistic Suicide and Anomic Suicide" From emile Durkheim,The Elementary Forms of Religious Life From emile Durkheim,Individualism and the Intellectuals 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" 4. Georg Simmel: DIALECTIC OF INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY Introduction From Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life" From Georg Simmel,The Stranger 5. George Herbert Mead: THE EMERGENT SELF Introduction From George Herbert Mead,Mind, Self, and Society 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 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" 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 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" 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 11. SYMBOLIC INTERACTION Introduction From Herbert Blumer, "Society as Symbolic Interaction" From Erving Goffman,The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life 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 13: CRITICAL THEORY Introduction From Herbert Marcuse,One Dimensional Man From Jurgen Habermas, "Three Normative Models of Democracy" 14. POST-MODERNISM Introduction From Michel Foucault, "The Carceral" From Jean-Franois Lyotard,The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

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