Social theory : the multicultural and classic readings / edited with commentaries by Charles Lemert.

Incluye bibliografía.

Introduction: Social theory: its uses and pleasures -- pt. I. Modernity´s Classical Age: 1848-1919 -- The two sides of society -- Estranged labour -- Camera obscura -- The manifesto of class struggle, with Friedrich Engels -- the eighteenth burmaire of Louis Bonaparte -- On imperialism in India -- Capital and the values of commodities -- Capital and the fetishism of commodities -- Labour-power and capital / Karl Marx -- The patriarchal family / Friedrich Engels -- The settlement as a factor in the Labor Movement / Jane Addams -- Mechanical and organic solidarity -- Anomie and the modern division of labor -- Sociology and social facts -- Suicide and modernity -- Primitive classifications and social knowledge, with Marcel Mauss -- The cultural logic of collective representations / Emile 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 interpretations -- 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 -- Split lives in the modern world -- The self and its selves / William James -- Double-consciousness and the veil / William Edward Brughardt (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 --

pt. II. Social theories and world conflict: 1919-1945 -- Action, knowledge, self -- The psychology of modern society -- The new liberalism / John Maynard Keynes -- The irrational chasm between subject and object / Georg Lukás -- Notes on science and the crisis / Max Horkheimer -- The unit act of action systems / Talcott Parsons -- What is to be done? / Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (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 -- Black reconstruction and the racial wage / William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois -- Unavoidable dilemmas -- 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 / Antonio Gramsci -- Nonviolent force: a spiritual dilemma / Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi -- Identity, struggle, contradiction / Mao Tse-tung -- The Japanese and the Americans / Ruth Benedict --

pt. III. The golden moment: 1945-1963 -- The golden age -- 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 / Robert K. Merton -- The structural study of myth / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Semiological prospects / Roland Barthes -- Ideology and the ideological state apparatuses / Louis Althusser -- Doubts and reservations -- The culture industry as deception / Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno -- Character and society? the other-directed personality / David Riesman -- Others object -- Woman as other / Simone de Beauvoir -- Between colonizer and colonized / Aimé Césaire -- 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 (SDS) -- The problem that has no name / Betty Friedan -- Decolonizing, national culture, and the Negro intellectual / Frantz Fanon --

pt. IV. Will the center hold? 1963-1979 -- Experiments at renewal and reconstruction -- Change and the planning system / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Emancipatory knowledge -- Social analysis and communicative competence / Jürgen 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 Janus-faced structure / Theda Skocpol -- Gender personality and the reproduction of mothering / Nancy Chodorow -- Breaking with modernity -- The decentering event in social thought / Jacques Derrida -- Biopolitics and the Carceral Society / Michel Foucault -- Black power and Stokely / C.L.R. James -- Toward a reflexive sociology / Alvin W. Gouldner -- Repressive desublimation / Herbert Marcuse -- Reflexive properties of practical sociology / Harold Garfinkel -- Structures, habitus, practices / Pierre Bourdieu -- The master´s tools will never dismantle the master´s house / Audre Lorde --

pt. V. After modernity, 1979-1991/2001 -- The idea of the postmodern -- The postmodern condition / Jean-François Lyotard -- Private irony and liberal hope / Richard Rorty -- Power as knowledge / Michel Foucault -- Simulacra and simulations: Disneyland / Jean Baudrillard -- Reactions and alternatives -- Post-modernity or radicalized modernity? / Anthony Giddens -- Radical democracy: alternative for a new left / Ernesto LaClau and Chantal Mouffe -- A theory of power for women? / Nancy Hartsock -- The Afrocentric idea / Molefi Kete Asante -- Postpositivist case for the classics / Jeffrey Alexander -- The new social structure and the new social science / James S. Coleman -- After modernity -- The new cultural politics of difference / Cornel West -- ´Race´ as the trope of the world / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- the Cyborg Manifesto and fractured identities / Donna Haraway -- Infinite layers/ Third World? / Trinh T. Mihn-ha -- Can the subaltern speak? / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Black feminist thought in the matrix of domination / Patricia Hill Collins -- The new Mestiza / Gloria Anzaldúa -- Sexual identification is a strange thing / Jeffrey Weeks -- Imitation and gender insubordination / Judith Butler -- Who is your mother? Red roots of White feminism / Paula Gunn Allen -- The end of the modern era / Vaclav Havel --

pt. VI. Rethinking the unthinkable after 2001 -- Social theories of global uncertainties -- Liquid modernity / Zygmunt Bauman -- Geo-political cleavages of the Twenty-first Century / Immanuel Wallerstein -- the clash of globalizations / Stanley Hoffman -- The global, the local, and the return of ethnicity / Stuart Hall -- The city in a globalizing world / David Harvey -- The global network / Manuel Castells -- Toward a feminist analytics of the global economy / Saskia Sassen -- Asian values and the West´s claim to uniqueness / Amartya Sen -- Work Risk Society / Ulrich Bech -- Melting hard realities/rethinking ancient ideas -- Ghostly matters / Avery Gordon -- Intellectual exile: expatriates and marginals / Edward Said -- Future social science and the invisible elbow / Charles Tilly -- Women´s time / Julia Kristeva -- Global economic changes and the limits of the race relations vision / William Julius Wilson -- Teletechnology and the unbundling of social structures / Patricia Ticineto Clough -- Epistemology of the closet / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Masculinities and globalization / Raewyn Connell -- Cynicism as a form of ideology / Slavoj Zizek -- the rhizome/a thousand plateaus / Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari -- Sovereign power and bare life / Giorgio Agamben.