Faculty Favorites: Works that Duke Sociology Faculty have found important & useful.

Baker, Wayne. 1984. “The Social Structure of a National Securities Market” American Journal of Sociology, 89:775-811

Blumer, Herbert. 1955. “Attitudes and the social act” Social Problems, 3:59-65.

Castells, Manuel 1972. The Urban Question [AJS review, SF Review]

Chase, Ivan D. 1980. “Social Process and Hierarchy Formation in Small Groups” American Sociological Review, 45:905-924

Collins, Patricia Hill 1990. “Black Feminist Epistemology” from Black Feminist Thought New York: Routledge. [selection taken from Calhoun et al Contemporary Sociological Theory]

Dallalfar, Arlene. 1994. "Iranian Women as Immigrant Entrepreneurs." Gender & Society 8: 541-561

Davis, J. A. 1982. “Achievement Variables and Class Cultures” American Sociological Review. 47: 569-586.

Deutsher, Irwin. 1966. “Words and deeds: Social Science and Social Policy” Social Problems 13:235-254

DiMaggio, Paul, and Walter Powell. 1983. "The Iron Cage Revisited." American Sociological Review 48:147-160.

Fields, Karen. 1982. "Charismatic Religion as Popular Protest." Theory and Society 11:321-361.

Fligstein, Neil. 1996. “Markets as Politics” American Sociological Review 61:656-673

Granovetter, Mark. 1973. "The Strength of Weak Ties" American Journal of Sociology 78:1360-1380

Heise, David R. 1999. “Controlling Affective Experience Interpersonally” Social Psychology Quarterly 62:4-16 (see also here!)

Homans, George C. “Social Behavior as Exchange” American Journal of Sociology 63:597-606

Homans, George. 1950 The Human Group, Chapter 2: “The Elements of Behavior” Harcourt Brace, New York

Lillard, Lee A. and Linda J. Waite. 1995. "`Til Death Do Us Part: Marital Disruption and Mortality." American Journal of Sociology 100: 1131-1156.

Link, B.G. & Phelan, J. 1995. “Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Disease” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 35 (extra issue): 80-94.

Lofland, John and Rodney Stark. 1965. “Becoming a World-Saver” American Sociological Review, 30:862-875

Manza, Jeff and Clem Brooks. 1998. "The Gender Gap in U.S. Presidential Elections" American Journal of Sociology 103: 1235-1266.

Marx, Karl 1844. “Philosophic And Economic Manuscripts” [selection taken from Calhoun et al Contemporary Sociological Theory]

Mayhew, Bruce H. 1980 "Structuralism Versus Individualism: Part I, Shadowboxing in the Dark" Social Forces 59:335-375

Mayhew, Bruce H. 1981. "Structuralism versus Individualism: Part II, Ideological and Other Obfuscations” Social Forces 59:627-648

McClanahan, Sara. 1985. "Family Structure and the Reproduction of Poverty." American Journal of Sociology 90: 873-901.

Merton, Robert. 1954. “Friendship as Social Process: A Substantive and Methodological Analysis." Pp. 298-348 in The Varied Sociology of Paul F. Lazarsfeld, ed by P. L. Kendall. NY: Columbia University Press.

Pager, Devah  2003. “The Mark of a Criminal Record” American Journal of Sociology 108:937-975

Portes, Alejandro 1997. "Neoliberalism and the sociology of development." Population and Development Review 23:229-259.

Poulantzas, Nicos. 1973. Political Power and Social Classes New Left Books & Sheed & ward, London. [link to ContempSoc review]

Powell, Walter and Paul DiMaggio 1991. Neo-Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. University of Chicago Press.

Tilly, Charles. 1999. Durable Inequality, chapter 1, “Of Essences and Bonds” niversity of California Press, Berkeley

Weber, Max. [1920] 1978. "Charisma and Its Transformations." Ch. XIV in Economy and Society, ed. by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich. Berkeley: University of California Press.