Social theory : roots and branches : readings / Peter Kivisto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kivisto, Peter, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology.

Physical Description:

xii, 445 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Roxbury, [2000]

Contents:

Part 1 The Roots

Classical Social Theory

I. Karl Marx

1. Alienated Labor 5

2. Theses on Feuerbach 13

3. Manifesto of the Communist Party (with Friedrich Engels) 15

4. Commodities 23

5. The General Formula for Capital 30

II. Emile Durkheim

6. On Mechanical and Organic Solidarity 36

7. What Is a Social Fact? 41

8. Anomic Suicide 47

9. Primitive Classification (with Marcel Mauss) 54

10. The Human Meaning of Religion 58

III. Max Weber

11. 'Objectivity' in Social Science 66

12. The Spirit of Capitalism 72

13. Bureaucracy 80

14. The Nature of Charismatic Domination 86

15. Class, Status, Party 93

IV. Georg Simmel

16. Fashion 99

17. The Problem of Sociology 105

18. Conflict as the Basis of Group Formation 112

19. The Stranger 117

20. Flirtation 121

V. Voices Outside the Discipline

21. The Madman / Friedrich Nietzsche 127

22. What Pragmatism Means / William James 130

23. Civilization and Its Discontents / Sigmund Freud 136

24. The Fusion of the 'I' and the 'Me' in Social Activities / George Herbert Mead 144

VI. Neglected Voices

25. The Conservation of Races / W. E. B. Du Bois 149

26. The Dependence of Women / Charlotte Perkins Gilman 154

27. Utilization of Women in City Government / Jane Addams 158

28. Feminism and Conventionality / Elsie Clews Parsons 165

Part 2 The Branches

Contemporary Social Theory

VII. Functionalism and Neofunctionalism

29. The Unanticipated Consequences of Social Action / Robert K. Merton 172

30. The Functional Prerequisites of Social Systems / Talcott Parsons 180

31. Functional Differentiation / Niklas Luhmann 186

32. After Neofunctionalism / Jeffrey Alexander 192

VIII. Conflict Theory

33. The Functions of Social Conflict / Lewis Coser 200

34. Culture and Politics / C. Wright Mills 204

35. Conflict Groups and Group Conflict / Ralf Dahrendorf 210

36. The Basics of Conflict Theory / Randall Collins 218

IX. Symbolic Interactionism

37. Membership and History / Anselm Strauss 226

38. Society as Symbolic Interaction / Herbert Blumer 232

39. Bases of Fun / Erving Goffman 239

40. The Drama in the Routine: A Prolegomenon to a Praxiological Sociology / Stanford M. Lyman 247

X. Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology

41. Indirect Social Relationships / Alfred Schutz 254

42. Rules of Conversational Sequence / Harvey Sacks 260

43. The Rational Properties of Scientific and Common Sense Activities / Harold Garfinkel 267

44. Partnership / Aron Gurwitsch 276

XI. Exchange Theory and Rational Choice Theory

45. Social Behavior as Exchange / George C. Homans 287

46. Human Capital and Social Capital / James S. Coleman 297

47. The Emergence of Cooperative Social Institutions / Michael Hechter 305

48. Formulation of Exchange Theory / Peter Blau 314

XII. Feminist Theory

49. Subversive Bodily Acts / Judith Butler 321

50. Toward an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology / Patricia Hill Collins 329

51. Sociology From Women's Experience: A Reaffirmation / Dorothy E. Smith 339

52. Rethinking Freud on Women / Nancy Chodorow 350

XIII. Critical Theory

53. Philosophy and Critical Theory / Herbert Marcuse 357

54. Traditional and Critical Theory / Max Horkheimer 363

55. On Systematically Distorted Communication / Jurgen Habermas 369

56. The Divergent Rationalities of Administrative Action / Claus Offe 376

XIV. Postmodernism and Poststructuralism

57. Advertising / Jean Baudrillard 382

58. Panopticism / Michel Foucault 389

59. Postmodernity, or Living With Ambiguity / Zygmunt Bauman 396

60. Modern and Postmodern / Mike Featherstone 403

XV. Further Directions

61. Shame and Repugnance / Norbert Elias 413

62. Structures and the Habitus / Pierre Bourdieu 419

63. The Time-Space Constitution of Social Systems / Anthony Giddens 427

64. Queer-ing Sociology, Sociologizing Queer Theory / Steven Seidman 434.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1891487264

OCLC:

41488844