Full Description
This substantial book is a well-constructed anthology of 35 essential readings that traces the development of sociological thought from time-honoured classics to the vital new terrain of feminist, post-colonial, and postmodern theory.
Contents
Part I Classical Social Theorists ; Introduction ; Auguste Comte (1798-1857) ; Introduction and Major Works ; The Spirit of Positive Science ; Harriet Martineau (1818-1883) ; Introduction and Major Works ; An Excerpt from Society in America ; Karl Marx (1818-1883) ; Introduction and Major Works ; The Materialist Conception of History ; Theses on Feuerbach ; Alienated Labour ; The German Ideology ; The Class Struggle ; The Communist Manifesto ; Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) ; Introduction and Major Works ; The Overthrow of the Mother-Right and Monogamous Marriage ; Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) ; Introduction and Major Works ; Society and 'Survival of the Fittest' ; Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) ; Introduction and Major Works ; The Division of Labor in Society ; Sociological Method ; Egoistic and Anamic Suicide ; Religion as a Collective Force ; Max Weber (1864-1920) ; Introduction and Major Works ; Class, Status, and Party ; Social Scientific Method ; The Definition of Sociology and Social Action ; Legitmate Domination ; Bureaucracy ; The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Captialism ; Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929) ; Introduction and Major Works ; The Social Self ; George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) ; Introduction and Major Works ; The Significant Other and the Generalized Other ; Part II Contemporary Social Theorists ; Introduction ; Jessie Bernard (1903- ) ; Introduction and Major Works ; Women ; C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) ; Introduction and Major Works ; The Promise of Sociology ; Erving Goffman (1922-1982) ; Introduction and Major Works ; The Presentation of Self ; Michel Foucault (1926-1984) ; Introduction and Major Works ; Sexuality ; Dorothy Smith (1926- ) ; Introduction and Major Works ; Feminism and Marxism - A Place to Begin, A Way to Go ; A Peculiar Eclipsing: Women's Exclusion from Man's Culture ; Jurgen Habermas (1929- ) ; Introduction and Major Works ; Technology and Science as "Ideology" ; Edward Said (1935- ) ; Introduction and Major Works ; Latent and Manifest Orientalism ; Representations of the Intellectual ; Catharine A. MacKinnon (1946- ) ; Introduction and Major Works ; A Feminist Critique of Marx and Engels ; Mike Featherstone (1946- ) ; Introduction and Major Works ; Introduction: Globalizing Cultural Complexity ; Bell Hooks (1952- ) ; Introduction and Major Works ; The Significance of Feminism ; Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression
