Contemporary sociological theory

edited by Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff, and Indermohan Virk. (2007) Published by Wiley-Blackwell.

General Introduction [pdf: 12 pages, 1Mb]
Chapter 1 | The phenomenology of the social world [1932]
by Alfred Schutz</li>
Chapter 2 | The social construction of reality [1966]
by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann
Chapter 3 | The presentation of self in everyday life [1959]
by Erving Goffman
Chapter 4 | Symbolic interactionism [1969]
by Herbert Blumer
Chapter 5 | Social behavior as exchange [1958]
by George C. Homans
Chapter 6 | Exchange and power in social life [1964]
by Peter Blau
Chapter 7 | The logic of collective action [1965]
by Mancur Olson
Chapter 8 | Rights to Act [1990]
by James S. Coleman
Chapter 9 | Cooperation without law or trust [2005]
by Karen S. Cook, Russell Hardin, and Margaret Levi
Chapter 10 | The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective
rationality in organizational fields [1983]
by Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell
Chapter 11 | Economic embeddedness [1985]
by Mark Granovetter
Chapter 12 | Catnets [1966]
by Harrison White
Chapter 13 | The history of sexuality [1976]
by Michel Foucault
Chapter 14 | Truth and power [1977]
by Michel Foucault
Chapter 15 | Discipline and punish [1975]
by Michel Foucault
Chapter 16 | Some new rules of the sociological method [1976]
by Anthony Giddens
Chapter 17 | Agency, structure [1979]
by Anthony Giddens
Chapter 18 | The consequences of modernity [1990]
by Anthony Giddens
Chapter 19 | Social space and symbolic space [1994]
by Pierre Bourdieu
Chapter 20 | Structures, Habitus, Practices [1994]
by Pierre Bourdieu
Chapter 21 | The field of cultural production, or: The economic world reversed [1993]
by Pierre Bourdieu
Chapter 22 | The conceptual practices of power [1990]
by Dorothy E. Smith
Chapter 23 | Black feminist epistemology [1990]
by Patricia Hill Collins
Chapter 24 | Black skin, white masks [1952]
by Frantz Fanon
Chapter 25 | The paradoxes of integration [1997]
by Orlando Patterson
Chapter 26 | Modernity: An unfinished project [1980]
by Jürgen Habermas
Chapter 27 | The rationalization of the lifeworld [1981]
by Jürgen Habermas
Chapter 28 | Civil society and the political public sphere [1996]
by Jürgen Habermas
Chapter 29 | The social constraint twoards self-constraint [1937]
by Norbert Elias
Chapter 30 | Modernity and the Holocaust [1989]
by Zygmunt Bauman
Chapter 31 | We have never been modern [1991]
by Bruno Latour
Chapter 32 | The modern world-system in crisis [2004]
by Immanuel Wallerstein