Readings in social theory : the classic tradition to post-modernism / edited with introductions by James Farganis.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Farganis, James
Language:English
Published: Boston : McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Sociology > Philosophy.
Physical Description:xii, 442 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Pt. 1. The classic tradition. Karl Marx: Alienation, class struggle, and class consciousness
  • Émile Durkheim: Anomie and social integration
  • Friedrich Nietzsche: Reason and power
  • Max Weber: The iron cage
  • Georg Simmel: Dialectic of individual and society
  • George Herbert Mead: The emergent self
  • W.E.B. Du Bois: Double-consciousness and the public intellectual
  • Karl Mannheim: Sociology of knowledge and the role of intellectuals. Part 2. Contemporary sociological theory. Functionalism
  • Conflict theory
  • Exchange theory
  • Phenomenological sociology
  • Symbolic interaction
  • Feminist theory. Part 3. Modernity and post-modernism. Critical theory
  • Post-modernism.