Contemporary Sociological Thought

Introduction: Themes and Theories in Contemporary Sociological Thought

SECTION 1: THEORETICAL OFFERINGS OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Part I: Structural Functionalism
Chapter 1: [Extracts from] The Social System – Talcott Parsons
Chapter 2: Introduction to Social Theory and Social Structure – Robert K. Merton

Part II: Class, Conflict, and the State
Chapter 3: Class and Power: The Major Themes – John Porter
Chapter 4: The Intellectuals – Antonio Gramsci
Chapter 5: The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis – Immanuel Wallerstein
Chapter 6: The Impoverishment of State Theory – Leo Panitch

Part III: Perspectives in Symbolic Interaction
Chapter 7: Society as Symbolic Interaction – Herbert Blumer
Chapter 8: Introduction to The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Chapter 9: Becoming a Marihuana User – Howard Becker
Chapter 10: Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnomethodology: A Proposed Synthesis – Norman K. Denzin

Part IV: Modernism, Culture, and Change
Chapter 11: The Metropolis and Mental Life – Georg Simmel
Chapter 12: The New Forms of Control – Herbert Marcuse
Chapter 13: Modernity–An Incomplete Project – Jurgen Habermas
Chapter 14: The Dynamics of the Fields – Pierre Bourdieu
Chapter 15: Moral Capital – Mariana Valverde

Part V: Feminist Social Thought
Chapter 16: The Social Relation of the Sexes: Methodological Implications of Women’s History – Joan Kelly-Gadol
Chapter 17: Feminism and Marxism–A Place to Begin, A Way to Go – Dorothy Smith
Chapter 18: The Significance of Feminism – bell hooks

SECTION II: CRITICAL THEMES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Part VI: Postmodernism and Its Critics
Chapter 19: Postmodernity: The History of an Idea – David Lyon
Chapter 20: The End of Sociological Theory: The Postmodern Hope – Steven Seidman
Chapter 21: Call Yourself a Sociologist–And You’ve Never Even Been Arrested?! – Marilyn Porter
Chapter 22: Forward: On Being Light and Liquid – Zygmunt Bauman
Chapter 23: [Extracts from] The Spirit of Terrorism and Requiem for the Twin Towers – Jean Baudrillard

Part VII: Society, Subjects, and the Self
Chapter 24: Reforming Foucault: A Critique of the Social Control Thesis – Dany Lacombe
Chapter 25: The Emergence of Life Politics – Anthony Giddens
Chapter 26: Introduction: The Cosmopolitan Manifesto – Ulrich Beck

Part VIII: Globalization and Global Consciousness
Chapter 27: Running Out of Control: Understanding Globalization – R. Alan Hedley
Chapter 28: [Extracts from] Fences and Windoes: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate – Naomi Klein
Chapter 29: Cosmopolitianism and the Future of Democracy: Politics, Culture, and the Self – Nick Stevenson

Part IX: Postcolonialism, Diaspora, Citizenship, and Identity
Chapter 30: Latent and Manifest Orientalism – Edward Said
Chapter 31: Cultural Identity and Diaspora – Stuart Hall
Chapter 32: Citizenship in an Era of Globalization – Will Kymlicka
Chapter 33: The Politics of Recognition – Charles Taylor