Sociology: Introductory Readings

Introduction - The Sociological Perspective1. W.E.B. Du Bois - Sociology as the Science of Social Life2. C. Wright Mills - The Promise of Sociology3. Norbert Elias - The Sociologist as Destroyer of Myths4. Raewyn Connell - Decolonizing Sociology5. Zygmunt Bauman & Tim May - Understanding Ourselves and OthersFurther ReadingPART 1 Thinking Sociologically6. Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels - The Capitalist Revolution7. Pierre Bourdieu - Tastes, Distinctions and Social Structure8. Patricia Hill Collins - Learning from the Outsiders Within9. Anthony Giddens - The Consequences of Modernity10. Gurminder K. Bhambra - Sociology After the Postcolonial TurnFurther ReadingPART 2 Doing Sociology11. Émile Durkheim - Treat Social Facts as Things12. Philip Abrams - Sociology's Historical Imagination13. Michèle Lamont & Ann Swidler - The Interview and Methodological Pluralism14. Noortje Marres - Digital Sociology: Opportunities and Dangers15. Patricia Leavy & Anne Harris - What is Feminist Research?Further ReadingPART 3 Environment and Urbanism16. Georg Simmel - The Metropolis and Mental Life17. John Urry - A Sociology of Climate Change18. Elijah Anderson - Navigating the 'White Space'19. Laavanya Kathiravelu - Migrant Labour in a Global City20. Rolf Lidskog & Claire Waterton - Entering an Anthropocene Era?Further ReadingPART 4 Structures of Society21. Max Weber - Religion and the Origins of Capitalism22. Teri L. Caraway - The Feminization of Work23. Vanessa May & Petra Nordqvist - Families and Personal Life24. Christy Kulz - Schooling, Learning and Inequality25. Shoshana Zuboff - Capitalism and the Digital RevolutionFurther ReadingPART 5 Social Inequalities26. Kimberlé Crenshaw - Intersectionality: Structural and Political27. Fiona Kumari Campbell - Producing Disability and Abledness28. Thomas Piketty - Wealth Concentration and Inequality29. Michael Banton - Racial Distinctions and Social Structures30. Clare Lyonette & Rosemary Crompton - 'Doing Gender' via Domestic LabourFurther ReadingPART 6 Relationships and the Life Course31. George Herbert Mead - I, Me and the Social Self32. Carol Smart - Towards a Sociology of Personal Life33. Eva Illouz - Love as a Sociological Problem34. Stephen J. Hunt - From the Life Cycle to the Life Course35. Lorraine Green - The Significance of Generational ExperienceFurther ReadingPART 7 Interaction and Communication36. Erving Goffman - Self Preservation and Impression Management37. Randall Collins - Violence in Sociological Perspective38. Sheila Jeffreys - Misogyny, Beauty and Body Modification39. Susie Scott - Constructing and Negotiating Social Identity40. Johan Farkas & Jannick Schou - Truth and Lies at the 'End of Democracy'?Further ReadingPART 8 Health, Illness and the Body41. Peter Conrad - The Medical Re-Definition of Social Life42. Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett - Does Inequality Cause Poor Health Outcomes?43. Sarah Nettleton - Challenging the Dominance of Biomedicine44. William C. Cockerham - Health and Illness in Sociological Perspective45. Jens O. Zinn - The Exceptional and the Normal After COVID-19Further ReadingPART 9 Crime and Social Control46. Howard Becker - The Social Construction of Outsiders47. Michel Foucault - Penal Regimes: From Torture to Timetables48. Loïc Wacquant - Race, Blackness and Exclusion in the USA49. David S. Wall - The Digital Transformation of Criminality50. Katherine Beckett & Steve Herbert - Back to the Future: The Return of BanishmentFurther ReadingPART 10 Political Sociology51. Steven Lukes - Conceptualizing Power in Sociological Theory52. Michael Mann - Ethnic Cleansing and the Dark Side of Democracy53. Bart Bonikowski - Populist Politics and Mobilization54. Leonie B. Jackson - Islamophobia: The Making of a Muslim Enemy55. Marcia Mundt, Karen Ross & Charla M. Burnett - Social Media Use in Black Lives Matter ActivismFurther Reading