Sociology 138: Theory & Society

Reading Notes

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• Intro Day: history & background stuff (windows .doc file)
• Rousseau: The Social Contract
• Durkheim: Rules of Sociological Method
• Durkheim: Division of Labor
• Durkheim: Suicide
• Marx: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
• Marx: Wage Labor & Capital; Classes
• Weber: Class, Status, Party
• Weber: Bureaucracy
• Weber: Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism
• Simmel: The Stranger; Individuality
• Mannheim: Ideology and Utopia
• Arendt: Ideology and Terror
• Bauman: Modernity and the Holocaust (1-3)
• Bauman: Modernity and the Holocaust (4-7)
• Berger & Luckmann: Social Construction of Reality
• Goffman: Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
• Blau: Exchange and Rationality
• Leifer: "Action Preludes to Role Setting"
• Foucault: Truth & Power; Discipline & Punishment
• Bourdieu: Social Space; Symbolic Power
• Sewell: "Social Structure"

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