Classical Sociological Theory, 4e & Contemporary Sociological Theory, 4e Set

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This combined set includes the newly revised fourth edition of two world-class introductions to sociological debates: Classical Sociological Theory and Contemporary Sociological Theory. For a generation of students, these two anthologies have provided a definitive guide to the theoretical foundations of sociology and the continuing impact of early theorists, as well as a thorough introduction to current perspectives and approaches in sociology and social science.

Classical Sociological Theories features readings by leading scholars like Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Mead, Simmel, Freud, Du Bois, Adorno, Marcuse, Parsons, and Merton, also including the most influential theories arising out of the Enlightenment era and the work of de Tocqueville. Contemporary Sociological Theories offers in-depth yet accessible sources that examine micro-sociological analysis, symbolic interactionism, network theory, phenomenology, critical theory, structuralism, feminist theory, debates over modernity and postmodernity, and more.

This set is the most accessible and complete overview of sociological theory available. Both volumes:

• Feature a collection of readings carefully selected based on their theoretical sophistication and accessibility
• Present substantial primary source texts with detailed introductions, rather than brief excerpts and basic overviews
• Provide historical and intellectual perspective to each selected reading in the book
• Include extensive references to further readings and resources

Ideal for undergraduate courses in social and sociological theory as well as courses in wider social science programs such as human geography, anthropology, criminology, and urban studies, Classical Sociological Theory and Contemporary Sociological Theory, together offer a perfect combination for a thorough overview of sociological theory. Each volume can be purchased on its own or in a set with the textbook.

Classical Sociological Theory, 4th Edition TOC:

Notes on the Editors ix

Acknowledgements x

General Introduction 1

Part I Symbolic Action 27

Introduction to Part I 29

1 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life) 36
Erving Goffman

2 Symbolic Interactionism (from Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method) 51
Herbert Blumer

3 Interaction Ritual Chains (from Interaction Ritual Chains) 62
Randall Collins

Part II Structure and Agency 77

Introduction to Part II 79

4 A Theory of Group Solidarity (from Principles of Group Solidarity) 88
Michael Hechter

5 Metatheory: Explanation in Social Science (from Foundations of Social Theory) 100
James S. Coleman

6 Catnets (from Notes on the Constituents of Social Structure) 112
Harrison White

7 Some New Rules of Sociological Method (from New Rules For Sociological Method) 123
Anthony Giddens

Part III Institutions 129

Introduction to Part III 131

8 Economic Embeddedness 136
Mark Granovetter

9 The Iron Cage Revisited 145
Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell

Part IV Power and Inequality 161

Introduction to Part IV 163

10 The Power Elite (from The Power Elite) 172
C. Wright Mills

11 Durable Inequality (from Durable Inequality) 179
Charles Tilly

12 Power: A Radical View (from Power: A Radical View) 186
Steven Lukes

13 Societies as Organized Power Networks (from The Sources of Social Power, Vol I. A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760) 196
Michael Mann

Part V The Sociological Theory of Michel Foucault 213

Introduction to Part V 215

14 The History of Sexuality (from The History of Sexuality, Vol I: An Introduction) 220
Michel Foucault

15 Discipline and Punish (from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison) 229
Michel Foucault

Part VI The Sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu 237

Introduction to Part VI 239

16 Social Space and Symbolic Space (from “Social Space and Symbolic Space: Introduction to a Japanese Reading of Distinction”) 248
Pierre Bourdieu

17 Structures, Habitus, Practices (from The Logic of Practice) 257
Pierre Bourdieu

18 The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed 270
Pierre Bourdieu

19 Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field (from Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field) 286
Pierre Bourdieu

Part VII Race, Gender, and Intersectionality 297

Introduction to Part VII 299

20 The Theory of Racial Formation (from Racial Formation in the United States) 308
Michael Omi and Howard Winant

21 Intellectual Schools and the Atlanta School (from The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology) 318
Aldon D. Morris

22 The Paradoxes of Integration (from The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in Americas “Racial” Crisis) 329
Orlando Patterson

23 The Conceptual Practices of Power (from The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge) 337
Dorothy E. Smith

24 Black Feminist Epistemology (from Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment) 345
Patricia Hill Collins

25 Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex 354
Kimberle Crenshaw

26 Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research 363
Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree

27 The Politics of Erased Migrations 373
Rocio R. Garcia

Part VIII The Sociological Theory of Jürgen Habermas 385

Introduction to Part VIII 387

28 Modernity: An Unfinished Project (from Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity) 395
Jürgen Habermas

29 The Rationalization of the Lifeworld (from The Theory of Communicative Action Volume 2: Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason) 401
Jürgen Habermas

30 Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere (from Between Facts and Norms: Contribution to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy) 417
Jürgen Habermas

Part IX Modernity 431

Introduction to Part IX 433

31 The Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint (from The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners and State Formation and Civilization) 439
Norbert Elias

32 We Have Never Been Modern (from We Have Never Been Modern) 449
Bruno Latour

33 The Civil Sphere (from The Civil Sphere) 462
Jeffrey C. Alexander

34 Addressing Recognition Gaps: Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality (from American Sociological Review) 472
Michèle Lamont

Part X Crisis and Change 487

Introduction to Part X 489

35 The Modern World-System in Crisis (from World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction) 498
Immanuel Wallerstein

36 Conceptualizing Simultaneity 510
Peggy Levitt and Nina Glick Schiller

37 Nationalism (from Nationalism) 519
Craig Calhoun

38 The End May Be Nigh, But For Whom? (from Does Capitalism Have a Future?) 529
Michael Mann

Index 544

Contemporary Sociological Theory, 4th Edition TOC:

Notes on the Editors ix

Acknowledgments xi

General Introduction 1

Part I Precursors to Sociological Theory 25

Introduction to Part I 27

1 Of the Natural Condition and the Commonwealth (from Leviathan) 36
Thomas Hobbes

2 Of the Social Contract (from The Social Contract) 44
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3 What is Enlightenment? (from Immanuel Kant, The Philosophy of Kant) 55
Immanuel Kant

4 The Wealth of Nations (from The Wealth of Nations) 60
Adam Smith

Part II Liberal Theories of Social Order 71

Introduction to Part II 73

5 Influence of Democracy on the Feelings of the Americans (from Democracy in America) 83
Alexis de Tocqueville

6 Tyranny of the Majority (from Democracy in America) 102
Alexis de Tocqueville

7 What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear (from Democracy in America) 112
Alexis de Tocqueville

8 Society in America (from Society in America) 118
Harriet Martineau

9 “A Belated Industry” 126
Jane Addams

10 Freedom in a Complex Society (from The Great Transformation) 133
Karl Polanyi

Part III The Sociological Theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 141

Introduction to Part III 143

11 The German Ideology (from The German Ideology, Part One) 154
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

12 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1884 (from Collected Works, Vol 3) 158
Karl Marx

13 Manifesto of the Communist Party (from Collected Works, Vol 6) 168
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

14 Wage-Labour and Capital (from Karl Marx: Selected Works) 183
Karl Marx

15 Classes (from Collected Works, Vol 37) 191
Karl Marx

16 The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof (from Capital, An Abridged Edition) 193
Karl Marx

17 The General Formula for Capital (from Capital, An Abridged Edition) 198
Karl Marx

Part IV The Sociological Theory of Emile Durkheim 203

Introduction to Part IV 205

18 The Rules of Sociological Method (from The Rules of Sociological Method) 211
Emile Durkheim

19 The Division of Labor in Society (from The Division of Labor in Society) 228
Emile Durkheim

20 The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (from Elementary forms of the Religious Life) 250
Emile Durkheim

21 Suicide (from Suicide: A Study in Sociology) 262
Emile Durkheim

Part V The Sociological Theory of Max Weber 271

Introduction to Part V 273

22 “Objectivity” in Social Science (from The Methodology of the Social Sciences) 279
Max Weber

23 Basic Sociological Terms (from The Theory of Social and Economic Organization) 286
Max Weber

24 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (from Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism with Other Writings on the Rise of the West) 296
Max Weber

25 The Distribution of Power within the Political Community: Class, Status, Party (from Max Weber: Essays in Sociology) 314
Max Weber

26 The Types of Legitimate Domination (from The Theory of Social and Economic Organization) 323
Max Weber

27 Bureaucracy (from Max Weber: Essays in Sociology) 331
Max Weber

Part VI Self and Society 341

Introduction to Part VI 343

28 The Self (from Mind, Self and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist) 348
George Herbert Mead

29 The Stranger (from Georg Simmel: On Individuality and Social Forms) 361
Georg Simmel

30 The Triad (from The Sociology of Georg Simmel) 366
Georg Simmel

31 The Metropolis and Mental Life (from Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms) 372
Georg Simmel

32 The Souls of Black Folk (from The Souls of Black Folk) 381
W.E.B. Du Bois

33 The Damnation of Women (from W.E.B. Du Bois A Reader) 387
W.E.B. Du Bois

Part VII Critical Theory 397

Introduction to Part VII 399

34 Traditional and Critical Theory (from Critical Theory: Selected Essays) 406
Max Horkheimer

35 The Culture Industry (from The Dialectic of Enlightenment) 418
Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno

36 One-Dimensional Man (from One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society) 430
Herbert Marcuse

37 “Reflections on Violence” 438
Hannah Arendt

Part VIII Sociology of Knowledge 445

Introduction to Part VIII 447

38 Ideology and Utopia (from Ideology and Utopia) 451
Karl Mannheim

39 The Social Construction of Reality (from The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge) 462
Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann

40 The Phenomenology of the Social World (from The Phenomenology of the Social World) 471
Alfred Schutz

Part IX Functionalism 483

Introduction to Part IX 485

41 The Position of Sociological Theory (from The Position of Sociological Theory) 491
Talcott Parsons

42 Manifest and Latent Functions (from Social Theory and Social Structure) 498
Robert K. Merton

43 “Social Structure and Anomie” 505
Robert K. Merton

Part X Social Exchange 513

Introduction to Part X 515

44 Social Behavior as Exchange 520
George C. Homans

45 Exchange and Power in Social Life (from Exchange and Power in Social Life) 531
Peter M. Blau

Index 543

Craig Calhoun is University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University, USA. He was previously Director of the London School of Economics and President of the Social Science Research Council. His most recent book is Degenerations of Democracy (with Dilip Gaonkar and Charles Taylor).

Joseph Gerteis is Professor of Sociology and co-Principal Investigator of the American Mosaic Project at the University of Minnesota, USA. He is author of Class and the Color Line, and his research focuses on race, ethnicity, social boundaries and identities, and political culture.

James Moody is Professor of Sociology at Duke University, USA, and Director of the Duke Network Analysis Center. He has published widely in the fields of social networks, methods, and social theory. His work focuses on the network foundations of social cohesion and diffusion, with an emphasis on tools and methods for understanding dynamic social networks.

Steven Pfaff is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, USA. He is the author of several books, including Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany and The Genesis of Rebellion. His research focuses on religion, politics and social change.

Indermohan Virk is Executive Director of the Patten Foundation and the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. She works in the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs.