{"product_id":"concise-reader-in-sociological-theory-9781119536185","title":"Concise Reader in Sociological Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssential writings from classical and contemporary sociological theorists engagingly introduced and brought to life for students\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis \u003ci\u003eConcise Reader in Sociological Theory\u003c\/i\u003e contains excerpts from the writings of a wide range of key theorists who represent the dynamic breadth of classical and contemporary, macro- and micro-sociological theory. The selected writings elaborate on the core concepts and arguments of sociological theory, and, along with the commentary, explore topics that resonate today such as: crisis and change, institutions and networks, power and inequality, race, gender, difference, and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe text contains editorial introductions to each section that clearly explain the intellectual context of the theorists and their arguments and reinforce their relevance to sociological analysis and society today. The excerpts include writings from the classicists Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, W.E.B. Du Bois to the contemporary Patricia H\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Classical Theorists 7\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Karl Marx 9\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1A Karl Marx from \u003ci\u003eWage Labour and Capital \u003c\/i\u003e12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1B Karl Marx and Frederick Engels from \u003ci\u003eEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 \u003c\/i\u003e17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfit of Capital 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1C Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels from \u003ci\u003eThe German Ideology \u003c\/i\u003e27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Emile Durkheim 31\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2A Emile Durkheim from \u003ci\u003eThe Rules of Sociological Method \u003c\/i\u003e34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is a Social Fact? 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2B Emile Durkheim from \u003ci\u003eSuicide: A Study in Sociology \u003c\/i\u003e41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Max Weber 47\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3A Max Weber from \u003ci\u003eThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism \u003c\/i\u003e50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligious Affiliation and Social Stratification 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3B Max Weber from \u003ci\u003eEconomy and Society \u003c\/i\u003e65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Definition of Sociology and of Social Action 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTypes of Social Action 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3C Max Weber from \u003ci\u003eEssays in Sociology \u003c\/i\u003e75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBureaucracy 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStructures of Power 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClass, Status, Party 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sociology of Charismatic Authority 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScience as a Vocation 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Structural Functionalism, Conflict, and Exchange Theories 89\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Structural Functionalism 91\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4A Robert K. Merton from \u003ci\u003eOn Social Structure and Science \u003c\/i\u003e94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ethos of Science 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUniversalism 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Communism” 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDisinterestedness 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganized Skepticism 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Conflict and Dependency Theories 99\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5A Ralf Dahrendorf from \u003ci\u003eClass and Class Conflict in Industrial Society \u003c\/i\u003e101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5B Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto from \u003ci\u003eDependency and Development in Latin America \u003c\/i\u003e107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheory of Dependency and Capitalistic Development 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Social Exchange 111\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6A Peter M. Blau from \u003ci\u003eExchange and Power in Social Life \u003c\/i\u003e113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6B James S. Coleman from \u003ci\u003eSocial Capital in the Creation of Human Capital \u003c\/i\u003e116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Capital 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHuman Capital and Social Capital 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForms of Social Capital 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6C Paula England from \u003ci\u003eSometimes the Social Becomes Personal: Gender, Class, and Sexualities \u003c\/i\u003e120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining Terms 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExplaining the Gender Differences 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Symbolic Interaction, Phenomenology, and Ethnomethodology 129\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Symbolic Interaction 131\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7A George H. Mead from \u003ci\u003eMind, Self \u0026amp; Society \u003c\/i\u003e134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7B Erving Goffman from \u003ci\u003eThe Presentation of Self in Everyday Life \u003c\/i\u003e136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Phenomenology 141\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8A Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann from \u003ci\u003eThe Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge \u003c\/i\u003e143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reality of Everyday Life 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrigins of Institutionalization 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Ethnomethodology 159\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9A Harold Garfinkel from \u003ci\u003eStudies in Ethnomethodology \u003c\/i\u003e161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePractical Sociological Reasoning: Doing Accounts in “Common Sense Situations of Choice” 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9B Sarah Fenstermaker and Candace West from \u003ci\u003eDoing Gender, Doing Difference: Inequality, Power, and Institutional Change \u003c\/i\u003e166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Difference” as an Ongoing Interactional Accomplishment 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommon Misapprehensions 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dynamics of Doing Difference 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Major Postwar European Influences On Sociological Theory 173\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School 175\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10A Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno from \u003ci\u003eDialectic of Enlightenment \u003c\/i\u003e179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10B Jurgen Habermas from \u003ci\u003eThe Theory of Communicative Action: Reason and the Rationalization of Society \u003c\/i\u003e184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Pierre Bourdieu 189\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11A Pierre Bourdieu from \u003ci\u003eThe Forms of Capital \u003c\/i\u003e191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Capital 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Capital 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11B Pierre Bourdieu from \u003ci\u003eDistinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste \u003c\/i\u003e196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClass Condition and Social Conditioning 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Habitus and the Space of Life‐Styles 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Michel Foucault and Queer Theory 209\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12A Michel Foucault from \u003ci\u003eThe History of Sexuality \u003c\/i\u003e212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMethod 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12B Steven Seidman from \u003ci\u003eQueer Theory\/Sociology \u003c\/i\u003e217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Standpoint Theories Amid Globalization 223\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 Feminist Theories 225\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13A Charlotte Perkins Gilman from \u003ci\u003eThe Man-Made World or Our Androcentric Culture \u003c\/i\u003e229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13B Arlie Hochschild from \u003ci\u003eEmotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure \u003c\/i\u003e231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFraming Rules and Feeling Rules: Issues in Ideology 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13C Dorothy E. Smith from \u003ci\u003eThe Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge \u003c\/i\u003e233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRelations of Ruling and Objectified Knowledge 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen’s Exclusion from the Governing Conceptual Mode 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen Sociologists and the Contradiction between Sociology and Experience 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Standpoint of Women as a Place to Start 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13D Patricia Hill Collins from \u003ci\u003eBlack Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment \u003c\/i\u003e238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlack Feminist Thought as Critical Social Theory 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy U.S. Black Feminist Thought? 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlack Women as Agents of Knowledge 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToward Truth 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13E Patricia Hill Collins from \u003ci\u003eIntersectionality’s Definitional Dilemmas \u003c\/i\u003e249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRacial Formation Theory, Knowledge Projects, and Intersectionality 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpistemological Challenges 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13F R.W. Connell and James W. Messerschmidt from \u003ci\u003eHegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept \u003c\/i\u003e254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Should Be Retained 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Should Be Rejected 258\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender Hierarchy 258\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 Postcolonial Theories 263\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14A W. E. Burghardt Du Bois from \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk \u003c\/i\u003e267\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14B Edward W. Said from \u003ci\u003eOrientalism \u003c\/i\u003e270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14C Frantz Fanon from \u003ci\u003eBlack Skin, White Masks \u003c\/i\u003e273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fact of Blackness 273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14D Stuart Hall from \u003ci\u003eCultural Identity and Diaspora \u003c\/i\u003e276\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14E Raewyn Connell, Fran Collyer, Joao Maia, and Robert Morrell from \u003ci\u003eToward a Global Sociology of Knowledge: Post-Colonial Realities and Intellectual Practices \u003c\/i\u003e279\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSouthern Situations and Global Arenas 280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14F Alondra Nelson from \u003ci\u003eThe Social Life of DNA: Racial Reconciliation and Institutional Morality after the Genome \u003c\/i\u003e282\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostgenomic 282\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReconciliation Projects 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlavery and Justice 285\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 Globalization and the Reassessment of Modernity 287\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15A Zygmunt Bauman from \u003ci\u003eLiquid Modernity \u003c\/i\u003e290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter the Nation‐state 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15B Anthony Giddens from \u003ci\u003eModernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age \u003c\/i\u003e296\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15C Ulrich Beck from \u003ci\u003eRisk Society: Towards a New Modernity \u003c\/i\u003e300\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Logic of Wealth Distribution and Risk Distribution 300\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15D Ulrich Beck and Edgar Grande from \u003ci\u003eVarieties of Second Modernity: The Cosmopolitan Turn in Social and Political Theory and Research \u003c\/i\u003e305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15E Jurgen Habermas from \u003ci\u003eNotes on Post-Secular Society \u003c\/i\u003e307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Descriptive Account of a “Post‐Secular Society” – and the Normative Issue of How Citizens of Such a Society Should Understand Themselves 307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 311\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407075549527,"sku":"9781119536185","price":34.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781119536185.jpg?v=1730498090","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/concise-reader-in-sociological-theory-9781119536185","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}