Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory Readers (3^rd Ed.)

This set contains the two authoritative textbooks Contemporary Sociological Theory, 3rd Edition and Classical Sociological Theory, 3rd Edition.

The third edition of Contemporary Sociological Theory is the definitive guide to current perspectives and approaches in the field, examining key topics and debates in the field.  The new edition of Classical Sociological Theory explores the roots of sociology from its undisciplined beginnings to its current influence on contemporary sociological debate. 

Contemporary Sociological Theory, 3rd Edition

Notes on the Editors xi

Acknowledgments xii

Introduction 1

Part I Micro-Sociological Analysis 25

Introduction to Part I 27

1 The Phenomenology of the Social World (from the Phenomenology of the Social World) 35
Alfred Schutz

2 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (from the Presentation of Self in Everyday Life) 46
Erving Goffman

3 Symbolic Interactionism (from Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method) 62
Herbert Blumer

4 “Interaction Ritual Chains” (from Interaction Ritual Chains) 75
Randall Collins

Part II Exchange and Rationality 91

Introduction to Part II 93

5 Social Behavior as Exchange (from American Journal of Sociology) 100
George C. Homans

6 Exchange and Power in Social Life (from Exchange and Power in Social Life) 112
Peter M. Blau

7 The Logic of Collective Action (from the Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups) 124
Mancur Olson

8 A Theory of Group Solidarity (from Principles of Group Solidarity) 129
Michael Hechter

9 Cooperation without Law or Trust (from Cooperation without Trust?) 142
Karen S. Cook, Russell Hardin, and Margaret Levi

Part III Institutions and Networks 157

Introduction to Part III 159

10 Economic Embeddedness (from “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness”) 165
Mark Granovetter

11 The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields (from “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields”) 175
Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell

12 Catnets (from Notes on the Constituents of Social Structure) 193
Harrison White

13 Structural Holes (from Stuctural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition) 204
Ronald S. Burt

Part IV Power and Inequality 221

Introduction to Part IV 223

14 The Power Elite (from The Power Elite) 229
C. Wright Mills

15 On Hegemony (from Selections From the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci) 237
Antonio Gramsci

16 Coercion, Capital, and European States (from Coercion, Capital and European States, AD 990–1990) 251
Charles Tilly

17 Power: A Radical View (from Power: A Radical View) 266
Steven Lukes

18 State, Society and Modern History (from the Nation-State and Violence Volume Two of A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism) 277
Anthony Giddens

Part V The Sociological Theory of Michel Foucault 287

Introduction to Part V 289

19 The History of Sexuality (from the History of Sexuality, vol. I: An Introduction) 295
Michel Foucault

20 Truth and Power (from Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977) 305
Michel Foucault

21 Discipline and Punish (from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison) 314
Michel Foucault

Part VI The Sociological Theory of Pierre Bourdieu 323

Introduction to Part VI 325

22 Social Space and Symbolic Space (from “Social Space and Symbolic Space: Introduction to a Japanese Reading of Distinction”) 335
Pierre Bourdieu

23 Structures, Habitus, Practices (from the Logic of Practice) 345
Pierre Bourdieu

24 The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed (from Poetics) 359
Pierre Bourdieu

25 Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field (from Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field) 375
Pierre Bourdieu

Part VII Race, Gender, Difference 387

Introduction to Part VII 389

26 The Conceptual Practices of Power (from the Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge) 398
Dorothy E. Smith

27 Black Feminist Epistemology (from Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment) 407
Patricia Hill Collins

28 Black Skin, White Masks (from Black Skin, White Masks) 417
Frantz Fanon

29 The Paradoxes of Integration (from the Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America’s “Racial” Crisis) 426
Orlando Patterson

Part VIII Sociological Theory of Jürgen Habermas 435

Introduction to Part VIII 437

30 Modernity: An Unfinished Project (from Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity) 444
Jürgen Habermas

31 The Rationalization of the Lifeworld (from the Theory of Communicative Action Volume 2: Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason) 451
Jürgen Habermas

32 Civil Society and the Political Public Sphere (from Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy) 469
Jürgen Habermas

Part IX Modernity 491

Introduction to Part IX 493

33 The Social Constraint towards Self-Constraint (from the Civilizing Process: The History of Manners and State Formation and Civilization) 499
Norbert Elias

34 Modernity and the Holocaust (from Modernity and the Holocaust) 510
Zygmunt Bauman

35 The Consequences of Modernity (from the Consequences of Modernity) 531
Anthony Giddens

36 We Have Never Been Modern (from We Have Never Been Modern) 546
Bruno Latour

Part X Crisis and Change 561

Introduction to Part X 563

37 Systemic and Antisystemic Crises (from Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century) 569
Giovanni Arrighi

38 Reconfiguring Territory, Authority, and Rights (from Territory. Authority. Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages) 579
Saskia Sassen

39 The Modern World-System in Crisis (from World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction) 587
Immanuel Wallerstein

Index

Classical Sociological Theory, 3rd Edition

Notes on the Editors ix

Acknowledgments x

Introduction 1

Part I Precursors to Sociological Theory 19

Introduction to Part I 21

1 Of the Natural Condition and the Commonwealth (from Leviathan) 30
Thomas Hobbes

2 Of the Social Contract (from The Social Contract) 38
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3 What is Enlightenment? (from Immanuel Kant, The Philosophy of Kant) 50
Immanuel Kant

4 The Wealth of Nations (from The Wealth of Nations) 55
Adam Smith

5 The Theory of Moral Sentiments (from The Theory of Moral Sentiments) 67
Adam Smith

Part II The Sociological Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville 83

Introduction to Part II 85

6 The Old Régime and the French Revolution (from The Old Régime and the French Revolution) 94
Alexis de Tocqueville

7 Influence of Democracy on the Feelings of the Americans (from Democracy in America) 103
Alexis de Tocqueville

8 Tyranny of the Majority (from Democracy in America) 122
Alexis de Tocqueville

Part III The Sociological Theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 133

Introduction to Part III 135

9 The German Ideology (from The German Ideology, Part One) 142
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

10 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (from Collected Works, Volume 3) 146
Karl Marx

11 Manifesto of the Communist Party (from Collected Works, Volume 6) 156
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

12 The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (from Collected Works, Volume 11) 172
Karl Marx

13 Wage-Labour and Capital (from Karl Marx: Selected Writings) 182
Karl Marx

14 Classes (from Collected Works, Volume 37) 190
Karl Marx

Part IV The Sociological Theory of Emile Durkheim 193

Introduction to Part IV 195

15 The Rules of Sociological Method (from The Rules of Sociological Method) 201
Emile Durkheim

16 The Division of Labor in Society (from The Division of Labor in Society) 220
Emile Durkheim

17 The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (from Elementary Forms of the Religious Life) 243
Emile Durkheim

18 Suicide (from Suicide: A Study in Sociology) 255
Emile Durkheim

Part V The Sociological Theory of Max Weber 265

Introduction to Part V 267

19 “Objectivity” in Social Science (from The Methodology of the Social Sciences) 273
Max Weber

20 Basic Sociological Terms (from The Theory of Social and Economic Organization) 280
Max Weber

21 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) 291
Max Weber

22 The Distribution of Power within the Political Community: Class, Status, Party (from From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology) 310
Max Weber

23 The Types of Legitimate Domination (from The Theory of Social and Economic Organization) 320
Max Weber

24 Bureaucracy (from Max Weber: Essays in Sociology) 328
Max Weber

Part VI Self and Society in Sociological Theory 339

Introduction to Part VI 341

25 The Self (from Mind, Self and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist) 347
George Herbert Mead

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

27 Group Expansion and the Development of Individuality (from Georg Simmel: On Individuality and Social Forms) 366
Georg Simmel

28 The Dyad and the Triad (from The Sociology of Georg Simmel) 382
Georg Simmel

29 Civilization and its Discontents (from Civilization and its Discontents) 396
Sigmund Freud

30 The Souls of Black Folk (from The Souls of Black Folk) 404
W. E. B. Du Bois

31 The Regulation of the Wishes (from The Unadjusted Girl) 410
William I. Thomas

Part VII Critical Theory and the Sociology of Knowledge 419

Introduction to Part VII 421

32 Traditional and Critical Theory (from Critical Theory: Selected Essays) 425
Max Horkheimer

33 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (from Illuminations) 441
Walter Benjamin

34 The Culture Industry (from The Dialectic of Enlightenment) 465
Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno

35 One-Dimensional Man (from One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced IndustrialSociety) 478
Herbert Marcuse

Part VIII Structural-Functional Analysis 487

Introduction to Part VIII 489

36 The Position of Sociological Theory (from The Position of Sociological Theory) 495
Talcott Parsons

37 An Outline of the Social System (from Theories of Society) 502
Talcott Parsons

38 Manifest and Latent Functions (from Social Theory and Social Structure) 523
Robert K. Merton

39 On Sociological Theories of the Middle Range (from Social Theory and Social Structure) 531
Robert K. Merton

Index 543

Craig Calhoun is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the editor of Habermas and the Public Sphere - 1992 - and Social Theory and the Politics of Identity.