ABSTRACT

This social theory text combines the structure of a print reader with the flexibility of an interactive website. The reader includes original texts from classical and contemporary theorists as well as short synopses of key ideas and brief biographies of each theorist. The website will contain a wide variety of innovative material that the instructor can use to tailor his or her social theory course, including videos and animations; discussion forums with webcam capabilities; commentaries and summaries of key concepts, including extended historical content; exams and quizzes; annotated selections from key readings; classroom activities and links to supplemental texts. The combination of a print reader and a modular online component will appeal to instructors looking to move parts of their course online or instructors already teaching in an online setting.

chapter |6 pages

Section I Emergence Through Convergence: The Puzzles of Social Order

The Puzzles of Social Order Introductory Essay: This Deserted Island Is Out of Order

chapter 1|7 pages

The Rules of Sociological Method

chapter 2|24 pages

The Division of Labor in Society

THE PROBLEM

chapter 3|12 pages

Suicide

chapter 4|16 pages

Elementary Forms of Religious Life

chapter 5|16 pages

Categories of the Orientation and Organization of Action

ACTION AND ITS ORIENTATION

chapter 6|11 pages

Studies in Ethnomethodology

chapter 7|14 pages

The Social Construction of Reality

THE REALITY OF EVERYDAY LIFE

chapter |8 pages

Section II Networks of Capital: Dimensions of Global Capitalism

Dimensions of Global Capitalism Introductory Essay: Salvaging What Wall Street Left Behind

chapter 8|5 pages

The German Ideology

chapter 9|9 pages

Manifesto of the Communist Party

chapter 10|7 pages

Capital

PART I. COMMODITIES AND MONEY CHAPTER I. COMMODITIES

chapter 11|7 pages

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

ESTRANGED LABOUR

chapter 14|14 pages

The Forms of Capital

chapter 15|19 pages

Distinction

chapter |8 pages

Section III Pathway to Meltdown: Theorizing the Dark Side of Modernity

Theorizing the Dark Side of Modernity Introductory Essay: Your Smart Phone Might Be an Evil Genius

chapter 17|13 pages

Basic Sociological Terms

THE DEFINITION OF SOCIOLOGY AND OF SOCIAL ACTION

chapter 18|17 pages

The Types of Legitimate Domination

DOMINATION AND LEGITIMACY

chapter 19|6 pages

Bureaucracy

CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN BUREAUCRACY

chapter 20|10 pages

Class, Status, Party

THE DISTRIBUTION OF POWER WITHIN THE POLITICAL COMMUNITY: CLASS, STATUS, PARTY

chapter 21|9 pages

One-Dimensional Man

chapter 22|7 pages

Toward a Rational Society

chapter 23|11 pages

Discipline and Punish

chapter 24|13 pages

The Consequences of Modernity

chapter |8 pages

Section IV Shifting the Paradigm: Excluded Standpoints, Alternative Knowledges

Excluded Standpoints, Alternative Knowledges Introductory Essay: Webs of Knowledge in the Digital Divide

chapter 25|6 pages

The Souls of Black Folk

chapter 26|11 pages

The Second Sex

chapter 27|16 pages

Racial Formation in the United States

chapter 28|8 pages

Black Skin, White Masks

chapter 29|16 pages

Orientalism

chapter 30|7 pages

The Conceptual Practices of Power

chapter 31|20 pages

Black Feminist Thought

WHY U.S. BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT?

chapter |8 pages

SECTION V Rise of the Avatar: Connecting Self and Society

Connecting Self and Society Introductory Essay: Through the Looking-Glass of Facebook

chapter 32|16 pages

The Self

THE SELF AND THE ORGANISM

chapter 33|9 pages

The Metropolis and Mental Life

chapter 34|4 pages

The Stranger

chapter 35|12 pages

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

BELIEF IN THE PART ONE IS PLAYING

chapter 36|7 pages

The History of Sexuality

chapter 37|11 pages

Gender Trouble

“WOMEN” AS THE SUBJECT OF FEMINISM

chapter |19 pages

Glossary Index

chapter |7 pages

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