Part 1: The classic tradition. 1. Karl Marx: alienation, class struggle, and class consciousness Introduction From Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The manifesto of the Communist Party From Karl Marx, Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844 From Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The German ideology From Karl Marx, "Fetishism of commodities and the secret thereof"-- 2. Émile Durkheim: anomie and social integration Introduction From Émile Durkheim, The rules of sociological Method From Émile Durkheim, "Egoistic suicide and anomic suicide" From Émile Durkheim, The elementary forms of religious life From Émile Durkheim, "Individualism and the intellectuals" 3. Max Weber: the iron cage Introduction From Max Weber, The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism From Max Weber, "Bureaucracy" From Max Weber, "'Objectivity' in social science and social policy" From Max Weber, "Class, status, party" 4. Georg Simmel: dialectic of individual and society Introduction From Georg Simmel, "The metropolis and mental life" From Georg Simmel, "The Stranger" 5. George Herbert Mead: the emergent self Introduction From George Herbert Mead, Mind, self, and society 6. W.E.B. Du Bois: double consciousness and the public intellectual Introduction From W.E.B. Du Bois, The Philadelphia negro: a social study From W.E.B. Du Bois, The souls of Black folk Part 2. Contemporary sociological theory. 7. Functionalism Introduction From Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, "Some principles of stratification" From Talcott Parsons, "Age and sex in the social structure of the United States" From Robert K. Merton, "Manifest and latent functions" 8. Conflict theory Introduction From Ralf Dahrendorf, "Social structure, group interests, and conflict groups" From C. Wright Mills, "The structure of power in America" From Richard Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff, "Ironies of diversity" 9. Exchange theory and rational choice Introduction From Peter Blau, "The structure of social associations" From George C. Homans, "Social behavior as exchange" From James Coleman, "Social capital in the creation of human capital" 10. Phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology Introduction From Alfred Schutz, "Common-sense and scientific interpretation of human action" From Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, "Foundations of knowledge in everyday life" From Harold Garfinkel, "Studies of the routine grounds of everyday activities" 11. Symbolic interaction Introduction From Herbert Blumer, "Society as symbolic interaction" From Erving Goffman, The presentation of self in everyday life 12. Feminist theory Introduction From Dorothy Smith, "Women's experience as a radical critique of sociology" From Michele Barrett, "Words and things: materialism and method in contemporary feminist analysis" Part 3. Modernity and post-modernism. 13. Critical theory Introduction From Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man From Jürgen Habermas, "Three normative models of democracy" 14. Post-modernism Introduction From Michel Foucault, "The carceral" From Jean-François Lyotard, The post-modern condition: a report on knowledge
