David MacGregor, PhD

Modern Sociological Theory - Soc 404 Readings

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Required Reading:

The following texts are required reading for this course:

• Charles Lemert, ed. Social Theory: the multicultural and classical readings, Westview Press, 1993 [ST]
• David MacGregor, Hegel and Marx After the Fall of Communism, University of Wales Press, 1998 [HMA]
• Geog Simmel, Simmel on Culture, ed. David Frisby and Mike Featherstone, Sage, 1997 [SC]

The selections in Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic Readings are rather demanding. Consequently, the following short list contains the readings you must know for the course. You should also consult Charles Lemert's introductions to each set of readings in the book.

NOTE: Dates will differ depending on the calendar year

Sept 19/20 Lemert, 21-27
Karl Marx

• Estranged Labour 30-36
• Camera Obscura 36-37
• Class Struggle, 37-41
• The Values of Commodities, 51-59
• The Fetishism of Commodities, 59-61

Emile Durkheim

• Anomie and the Modern Division of Labor, 70-71
• Sociology and Social Facts, 71-74
• Suicide and Modernity, 74-82
• The Cultural Logic of Collective Representations, 89-99

Sept 26/27
Max Weber

• *All Selections* pp. 100-125

Sigmund Freud

• *All Selections* pp. 125-148

W.E.B. Du Bois

• Double Consciousness and the Veil, 163-172
• Charles Horton Cooley
• The Looking-Glass Self, 188-189

Oct 3/4 -
Lemert, 191-202
Georg Lukács,

• The Irrational Chasm Between Subject and Object, 206-208
• Talcott Parsons
• The Unit Act of Action Systems, 212-215

V.I. Lenin

• What is to be Done? 215-217

Karl Mannheim

• The Sociology of Knowledge and Ideology, 217-222

Eric Fromm

• Psychoanalysis and Sociology, 222-224

G.H. Mead

• The Self, the I, and the Me, 224-229

R.K. Merton

• Social Structure and Anomie, 229-241

Oct 10/11 -
Lemert, 271-282
Daniel Bell

• The End of Ideology in the West, 287-290

Robert K. Merton

• Manifest and Latent Functions, 304-310

Erving Goffman

• On Face Work, 330-336

Simone de Beauvoir

• Woman as Other, 337-340

Martin Luther King, Jr

• The Power of Non-Violent Action, 343-348

C. Wright Mills

• The Sociological Imagination, 348-352

Oct 17/18 -
Lemert, 365-376
Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann

• Society as a Human Product, 384-388

Dorothy Smith

• Knowing a Society from Within: A Woman's Standpoint, 388-391

Nancy Chodorow

• Gender Personality and the Reproduction of Mothering, 406-411

Alvin W. Gouldner

• Toward a Reflexive Sociology, 428-433

Harold Garfinkle

• Reflexive Properties of Practical Sociology, 437-441

Pierre Bourdieu

• Structures, Habitus, Practices, pp. 441-446

Audre Lorde

• The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, 446-9

Oct 24/26 -
Lemert, 451–62
Jean-François Lyotard

• The Postmodern Condition

Donna Haraway

• The Cyborg Manifesto and Fractured Identities, 539–543

Patricia Hill Collins

• Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination, 553-564

Jeffrey Weeks

• Sexual Identity is a Strange Thing, 571-575

Judith Butler

• Imitation and Gender Insubordination, 575-585

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