Social Theory

This bestselling reader takes us beyond classic social theory by encompassing a truly inspiring range of readings that have significantly contributed to our current understanding of social theory. This first truly multicultural anthology collects important, readable texts representative of the full range of social theory from the nineteenth century to the present. Now that social theory is practiced in many disciplines, it is necessary to reflect on the variety of theories being read today and the earlier sources that are customarily neglected. If today we read Donna Haraway, Henry Louis Gates, and Michel Foucault, we should also read and understand Charlotte Perkins Gilman and W.E.B. Du Bois, alongside Weber, Simmel, William James, and others from the end of the nineteenth century. This book, therefore, sets a wider gauge for the understanding of the history of social thought than could have been possible before. It brings together theories in unexpected and exciting ways: those of Parsons and Dorothy Smith, Merton and Lacan, Wallerstein and Frantz Fanon, James Coleman and Molefi Asante. Extensive introductory essays by the editor situate the readings in their historical place and time, identifying the currents of social change that shaped fundamental questions of modern and postmodern life. This fourth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include cutting-edge documents on teletechnologies, masculinities, rhizomes, bare life, and more.

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"Charles Lemert captures the surfacing of multiple theoretical voices in the postmodern era. No theory course should be without "Social Theory"."<br> --Steve Seidman, State University of New York at Albany

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Charles Lemert is professor of sociology at Wesleyan University and the author of numerous classic books including Sociology After the Crisis and Social Things.

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* Social Theory: Its Uses and Pleasures Modernity's Classical Age, 1848-1919 * Estranged Labour; Camera Obscura, Karl Marx * Class Struggle, K. Marx and Friedrich Engels * The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte; On Imperialism in India; The Values of Commodities; The Fetishism of Commodities; Labour-Power and Capital, K. Marx * The Patriarchal Family, F. Engels * Anomie and the Modern Division of Labor; Sociology and Social Facts; Suicide and Modernity, Emile Durkheim * Primitive Classifications and Social Knowledge, E. Durkheim and Marcel Mauss * The Cultural Logic of Collective Representations, E. Durkheim * The Spirit of Capitalism and the Iron Cage; The Bureaucratic Machine; What Is Politics?; The Types of Legitimate Domination; Class, Status, Party, Max Weber * The Psychical Apparatus and the Theory of Instincts; Dream-Work and Interpretation; Oedipus, the Child; Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through; The Return of the Repressed in Social Life; Civilization and the Individual, Sigmund Freud * Arbitrary Social Values and the Linguistic Sign, Ferdinand de Saussure * The Self and Its Selves, William James * Double-Consciousness and the Veil; The Spirit of Modern Europe, W.E.B. Du Bois * The Yellow Wallpaper; Women and Economics, Charlotte Perkins Gilman * The Colored Woman's Office, Anna Julia Cooper * The Stranger, Georg Simmel * The Looking-Glass Self, Charles Horton Cooley Social Theories And World Conflict, 1919-1945, * The Psychology of Modern Society; The New Liberalism, John Maynard Keynes * The Irrational Chasm Between Subject and Object, Georg Lukcs * Notes on Science and the Crisis, Max Horkheimer * The Unit Act of Action Systems, Talcott Parsons * What Is to Be Done?, V. I. Lenin * The Sociology of Knowledge and Ideology, Karl Mannheim * Psychoanalysis and Sociology, Erich Fromm * The Self, the I, and the Me, George Herbert Mead * Social Structure and Anomie, Robert K. Merton * Moral Man and Immoral Society, Reinhold Niebuhr * The Negro Problem as a Moral Issue, Gunnar Myrdal * Disorganization of the Polish Immigrant, William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki * Personality and Status Within the Gang, Frederic M. Thrasher * Art, War, and Fascism, Walter Benjamin * A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf * Intellectuals and Hegemony (1929-1936), Antonio Gramsci * Nonviolent Force: A Spiritual Dilemma, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi * Identity, Struggle, Contradiction, Mao Tse-tung * The Japanese and the Americans, Ruth Benedict The Golden Moment, 1945-1963, * On the United States and Containment of the Soviets, George Kennan * The End of Ideology in the West, Daniel Bell * Modernization: Stages of Growth, W. W. Rostow * Action Systems and Social Systems; Sex Roles in the American Kinship System, Talcott Parsons * Manifest and Latent Functions, R. K. Merton * The Structural Study of Myth, Claude Lvi-Strauss * Semiological Prospects, Roland Barthes * Why Theory?, Louis Althusser * Character and Society: The Other-directed Personality, David Riesman * Youth and American Identity, Erik H. Erikson * On Face-Work, Erving Goffman * The Eccentric Self and the Discourse of the Other, Jacques Lacan * Woman as Other, Simone de Beauvoir * Between Colonizer and Colonized, Aim Csaire * The Power of Nonviolent Action, Martin Luther King Jr * The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills * Participatory Democracy (from The Port Huron Statement), Students for a Democratic Society * The Problem That Has No Name, Betty Friedan * Decolonializing, National Culture, and the Negro Intellectual, Frantz Fanon Will The Center Hold? 1963-1979, * Change and the Planning System, John Kenneth Galbraith * Emancipatory Knowledge; Social Analysis and Communicative Competence, Jurgen Habermas * Society as a Human Product, Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann * Knowing a Society from Within: A Woman's Standpoint, Dorothy Smith * The Modern World-System, Immanuel Wallerstein * The State as a J

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