Series foreword ................................................ xv
Preface ....................................................... xvi
Acknowledgments ............................................. xxiii
Section I Emergence Through Convergence: The Puzzles of
Social Order .................................................... 1
Introductory Essay: This Deserted Island Is Out of Order
The classic novel The Lord of the Flies helps us see that
social order is both a product of our own making and something
much more powerful than the sum of its parts. We move from
the social facts of Durkheim to more contemporary takes on
the enigma of social order.
Classical Connections: Emile Durkheim ........................... 9
1 The Rules of Sociological Method ............................. 9
Emile Durkheim
2 The Division of Labor in Society ............................ 16
Emile Durkheim
3 Suicide ..................................................... 40
Emile Durkheim
4 The Elementary Forms of Religious Life ...................... 52
Emile Durkheim
Contemporary Extensions: Social Order Re-Wired ................. 68
5 Manifest and Latent Functions ............................... 68
Robert Merton
6 Studies in Ethnomethodology ................................. 85
Harold Garfinkel
7 Mixing Humans and Nonhumans Together: The Sociology of
a Door-Closer ............................................... 96
Bruno Latour
8 The Social Construction of Reality ......................... 110
Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann
Section II NETWORKS OF CAPITAL: Dimensions of Global
Capitalism .................................................... 123
Introductory Essay: Salvaging What Wall Street Left Behind
Today's global financial crisis reminds us that economic
troubles have profound consequences for social relationships.
Marx sets the stage for a lively discussion of the role
the economy plays in our global age, and Wallerstein,
Bourdieu, and Harvey provide contemporary visions of the
many links between the economic and the social.
Classical Connections: Karl Marx .............................. 131
9 The German Ideology ........................................ 131
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
10 Manifesto of the Communist Party ........................... 136
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
11 Capital .................................................... 145
Karl Marx
12 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 ............... 152
Karl Marx
Contemporary Extensions: Capital Re-Wired ..................... 159
13 The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System .. 159
Immanuel Wallerstein
14 Materials for an Exploratory Theory of the Network
Society .................................................... 169
Manuel Castells
15 The Forms of Capital ....................................... 184
Pierre Bourdieu
16 Distinction ................................................ 198
Pierre Bourdieu
17 Capitalism: The Factory of Fragmentation ................... 216
David Harvey
Section III PATHWAY TO MELTDOWN: Theorizing the Dark
Side of Modernity ............................................. 221
Introductory Essay: Your Smart Phone Might Be an Evil Genius
Smart phones are but one example of how our social world is
becoming more and more shaped by technology. From the pious
Puritans of Weber to the one-dimensional men of the
Frankfurt School, we explore the pitfalls and promises of
a rationalized, modern society.
Classical Connections: Max Weber .............................. 229
18 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism .......... 229
Max Weber
19 Basic Sociological Terms ................................... 257
Max Weber
20 The Types of Legitimate Domination ......................... 270
Max Weber
21 Bureaucracy ................................................ 287
Max Weber
22 Class, Status, Party ....................................... 293
Max Weber
Contemporary Extensions: The Rational Society Re-Wired ........ 303
23 One-Dimensional Man ........................................ 303
Herbert Marcuse
24 Toward a Rational Society .................................. 312
Jurgen Habermas
25 Discipline and Punish ...................................... 319
Michel Foucault
26 Modernity and the Holocaust ................................ 330
Zygmunt Bauman
Section IV SHIFTING THE PARADIGM: Excluded Voices,
Alternative Knowledges ........................................ 353
Introductory Essay: Webs of Knowledge in the Digital Divide
The production of knowledge on the Internet is not as
democratic as we might think. Du Bois, Beauvoir, and more
contemporary voices within critical race, postcolonial, and
feminist thought remind us the same is true in social theory.
Classical Connections: W.E.B. Du Bois and Simone de
Beauvoir ...................................................... 361
27 The Souls of Black Folk .................................... 361
W.E.B. Du Bois
28 The Second Sex ............................................. 367
Simone de Beauvoir
Contemporary Extensions: Paradigms Re-Wired ................... 378
29 Racial Formation in the United States ...................... 378
Michael Omi and Howard Winant
30 Black Skin, White Masks .................................... 394
Frantz Fanon
31 Orientalism ................................................ 402
Edward W. Said
32 The Conceptual Practices of Power .......................... 418
Dorothy Smith
33 Black Feminist Thought ..................................... 425
Patricia Hill Collins
Section V. RISE OF THE AVATAR: Connecting Self and Society .... 445
Introductory Essay: Through the Looking Glass of Facebook
Our Facebook profiles provide a glimpse of the collective
foundations of our individual selves. Mead and Simmel lay
the foundations for thinking about the social origins of
the self, and Goffman, Foucault, and others provide
provocative takes on what identity means in today's
complicated world.
Classical Connections: George Herbert Mead and Georg Simmel ... 453
34 Self ....................................................... 453
George Herbert Mead
35 The Metropolis and Mental Life ............................. 469
Georg Simmel
36 The Stranger ............................................... 478
Georg Simmel
Contemporary Extensions: Identity Re-Wired .................... 482
37 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life .................. 482
Erving Goffman
38 The History of Sexuality ................................... 494
Michel Foucault
39 Gender Trouble ............................................. 501
Judith Butler
40 Modernity and Self-Identity ................................ 512
Anthony Giddens
Credits ....................................................... 522
Glossary Index ................................................ 524
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