Sociology: Introductory Readings

Introduction - The Sociological Perspective1. C. Wright-Mills - Private Troubles, Public Issues2. Anthony Giddens - The Scope of Sociology3. Richard Jenkins - What is Sociology For?Further ReadingPART 1 Theories of Society4. Karl Marx - Human History as Class Conflict5. Emile Durkheim - From Mechanical to Organic Solidarity6. Sylvia Walby - Structuring Patriarchal Societies7. Zygmunt Bauman - Intimations of Postmodernity8. Anthony Giddens - Riding the Juggernaut of ModernityFurther ReadingPART 2 Research Methods9. Alan Bryman - Quantitative versus Qualitative Methods?10. Alan Buckingham & Peter Saunders - What is a Social Survey?11. Barbara Merrill & Linden West - Researching Individual Lives12. Philip Abrams - Sociology's Historical Imagination13. Loïc Wacquant - Participant Observation / Observant ParticipationFurther ReadingPART 3 Natural and Urban Environments14. Georg Simmel - Individuality in the Modern City15. Richard Sennett - Creating Humane Cities16. Saskia Sassen - The Global City17. Riley E. Dunlap - A New Ecological Paradigm for Sociology18. Anthony Giddens - A Politics for Global WarmingFurther ReadingPART 4 Institutions and Organizations19. Max Weber - The Spirit of Capitalism20. Emile Durkheim - The Essence of Religion21. Göran Therborn - Families in Global Perspective22. John Taylor Gatto - The Hidden Curriculum - A Teacher's View23. Alan S. Blinder - Work in the Next Industrial RevolutionFurther ReadingPART 5 Social Inequalities24. Wendy Bottero - What is Social Stratification?25. Simone De Beauvoir - Woman - The Second Sex?26. Patricia Hill Collins - Intersecting Inequalities27. Rosemary Crompton - The Rise, Fall and Rise of Social Class28. Colin Barnes, Geof Mercer & Tom Shakespeare - The Social Model of DisabilityFurther ReadingPART 6 Relationships and the Life-course29. Stephen Hunt - Life Cycle or Life Course?30. Jeffrey Weeks - Social Constructions of Sexuality31. Ulrich Beck & Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim -The Normal Chaos of Love32. Bill Bytheway - Ageing and Ageism33. Norbert Elias - The Loneliness of the DyingFurther ReadingPART 7 Interaction and Communication34. Erving Goffman - Presenting the Self in Social Life35. Iris Marion Young - Throwing Like a Girl36. Jack G. Shaheen - Hollywood's Misrepresentation of Arabs37. James Slevin - The Internet Galaxy38. Howard Rheingold - Building Virtual CommunitiesFurther ReadingPART 8 Health and the Body39. Bryan S. Turner - Defending Parsons' Sick Role40. Lesley Doyal - What Makes Women Sick?41. Mike Bury - The Experience of Illness and Recovery42. Ivan Illich - The Problem with Medicine43. Chris Shilling - Sociology and the BodyFurther ReadingPART 9 Crime and Deviance44. Emile Durkheim - The Normality of Deviance45. Robert Merton - Crime as a Deviant Adaptation46. Michel Foucault - The Birth of the Prison47. John Braithwaite - Principles of Restorative Justice48. David S. Wall - How Serious are 'Cybercrimes'?Further ReadingPART 10 Political Sociology49. Steven Lukes - Defining Power50. Mary Kaldor - New Wars in a Global Age51. David S. Meyer and Sidney Tarrow - The Social Movement Society?52. Walter Laqueur - The New Terrorism53. Daniele Archibugi - Cosmopolitan DemocracyFurther Reading