Introduction to Sociological Theory (eBook)
592 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-118-47191-3 (ISBN)
- Combines classical and contemporary theory in a single, integrated text
- Short biographies and historical timelines of significant events provide context to theorists' ideas
- Innovatively builds on excerpts from original theoretical writings with detailed discussion of the concepts and ideas under review
- Includes new examples of current social processes in China, South Korea, India, Latin America, the Middle East, and other non-Western societies
- Additional resources, available at www.wiley.com/go/dillon, include multiple choice and essay questions, PowerPoint slides with multimedia links to content illustrative of sociological processes, a list of complementary primary readings, a quotation bank, and other background materials
Michele Dillon is Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire and has many years of experience teaching sociological theory to undergraduate and graduate students. Her previous publications include Handbook of the Sociology of Religion (ed.) (2003), In the Course of a Lifetime: Tracing Religious Belief, Practice, and Change (with Paul Wink) (2007), and American Catholics in Transition (with W. D’Antonio and M. Gautier) (2013).
The extensively revised and updated second edition combines carefully chosen primary quotes with wide-ranging discussion and everyday illustrative examples to provide an in-depth introduction to classical and contemporary sociological theory. Combines classical and contemporary theory in a single, integrated text Short biographies and historical timelines of significant events provide context to theorists' ideas Innovatively builds on excerpts from original theoretical writings with detailed discussion of the concepts and ideas under review Includes new examples of current social processes in China, South Korea, India, Latin America, the Middle East, and other non-Western societies Additional resources, available at www.wiley.com/go/dillon, include multiple choice and essay questions, PowerPoint slides with multimedia links to content illustrative of sociological processes, a list of complementary primary readings, a quotation bank, and other background materials
Michele Dillon is Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire and has many years of experience teaching sociological theory to undergraduate and graduate students. Her previous publications include Handbook of the Sociology of Religion (ed.) (2003), In the Course of a Lifetime: Tracing Religious Belief, Practice, and Change (with Paul Wink) (2007), and American Catholics in Transition (with W. D'Antonio and M. Gautier) (2013).
"Crafting a sociological theory text that addresses complex and
contested ideas in a sophisticated, yet genuinely engaging and
accessible way is a tall order. As this new edition of Michele
Dillon's book reveals, she has a remarkable gift for doing just
that. Students will be well served by professors who adopt
Introduction to Sociological Theory for their theory
courses."
--Peter Kivisto, Augustana College and University of
Turku
CHAPTER ONE
KARL MARX (1818–1883)
CHAPTER MENU
Capitalism as Structured Inequality
The Millennium’s Greatest Thinker
Material and Social Existence Intertwined
Capitalism as a Distinctive Social Form
The Commodification of Labor Power
Professional Sports: The Commodification of Labor Power in Action
The Gap Between Exchange-Value and Use-Value
The Division of Labor and Alienation
Everyday Existence and the Normality of Ideas
The Mystical Value of Commodities
The Ruling Power of Money in Politics
Timeline 1.1 Major events in Marx’s lifetime (1818–1883)
| 1818 | First steamship (the Savannah) to cross the Atlantic Ocean, taking 26 days |
| 1819 | British Factory Act prohibiting employment of children under 9 in the cotton industry; and 12-hour days for those ages 10–16. |
| 1821 | US population: 9.6 million |
| 1830 | Revolution in France, fall of Charles X and Bourbons |
| 1833 | Britain abolishes slavery in its empire |
| 1837 | US Congress passes a “gag” law to suppress debate on slavery |
| 1840 | Railway-building boom in Europe |
| 1841 | First university degrees granted to women in America |
| 1842 | Depression and poverty in England |
| 1842 | British Mines Act forbids underground employment for women and girls and sets up inspectorate to supervise boy labor |
| 1843 | Skiing becomes a sport |
| 1845 | Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England |
| 1845 | Florida and Texas gain statehood |
| 1846 | Height of potato famine in Ireland |
| 1848 | Revolutions against monarchy/aristocracy in Europe (Paris, Berlin, Prague, Budapest) |
| 1848 | Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto |
| 1848 | California Gold Rush |
| 1850 | Sydney University established |
| 1854 | Charles Dickens, Hard Times |
| 1859 | Peaceful picketing during a strike legalized in Britain |
| 1862 | Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation declaring slaves free |
| 1862 | Lincoln issues the first legal US paper money |
| 1862 | Victor Hugo, Les Misérables |
| 1866 | National Labor Union (crafts union) established in the US |
| 1867 | Marx, Capital (Das Kapital) |
| 1871 | Trade Union Act in Britain secures legal status for trade unions, but picketing illegal |
| 1872 | Penny-farthing bicycle in general use |
| 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone |
| 1877 | US railroad strike; first major industrial dispute in US |
| 1879 | Thomas Edison produces incandescent electric light |
| 1882 | Standard Oil Company controls 95 percent of US oil-refining capacity |
1844b: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, EPM
1846: The German Ideology (with Engels), GI
1847: Wage Labour and Capital, WLC
1848: The Communist Manifesto (with Engels), CM
1852: “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” Bru
1858: The Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, Gru
1859: “Preface to ‘A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy,’ ” Preface
1867: Capital (Das Kapital), Cap
EXPANSION OF CAPITALISM
When you hear the name Karl Marx it is tempting to wonder why you should be studying his ideas. Marx has been dead for well over one hundred years, and communism, the political system with which his theoretical vision is associated, has all but disappeared around the world. The dominant communist power of the twentieth century, the Soviet Union, collapsed – an event captured literally by the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. Today, the largest ex-Soviet republic, Russia, is in the throes of adopting capitalism, crystallized by the development of shopping malls even in Siberia, and by the expanding global economic reach of Russian millionaires and billionaires. One, for example, owns the world-famous Chelsea (England) Football (soccer) Club, another was an early capital investor in Facebook, another paid $88 million for a luxury Manhattan penthouse in 2012, another owns the Brooklyn Nets, the NBA professional basketball team who have recently made their home in the spectacular Barclays arena in Brooklyn, a venture in which Jay-Z is also an investor. Such developments would have been unimaginable 20 years ago. Capitalism is steadily expanding too in China (see Topic 1.1); China occupies a major role in the global economy and it is expected to be the world’s number one economy by 2030, displacing the US.
Lest you think that this capitalist expansion is all the more reason not to study Marx, you might be surprised to know that Marx, in fact, predicted it:
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie [the capitalist ownership class] over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere … The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into...
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.12.2013 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie | |
| Schlagworte | Classical Social Theory • contemporary social theory • Gesellschaftstheorie • Klassische Sozialtheorie • Social Theory • Sociology • Soziologie • Zeitgenössische Sozialtheorie • Zeitgenössische Sozialtheorie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-118-47191-1 / 1118471911 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-118-47191-3 / 9781118471913 |
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