Social Theory Re-Wired

Wesley Longhofer is Associate Professor of Organization and Management at Emory University. Daniel Winchester is Associate Professor of Sociology at Purdue University

Preface

I. EMERGENCE THROUGH CONVERGENCE: The Puzzles of Social Order

Introductory Essay: "The Virus that Changed Our World"

Classical Connections

Emile Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method

Emile Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Society

Emile Durkheim, Suicide

Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Contemporary Extensions

Harold Garfinkel, Studies in Ethnomethodology

Bruno Latour, Mixing Humans and Nonhumans Together: The Sociology of a Door-Closer

Mark Granovetter, The Strength of Weak Ties

Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality

System Update

Manuel Castells, "Materials for an Exploratory Theory of the Network Society"

II. NETWORKS OF CAPITAL: Dimensions of Global Capitalism

Introductory Essay: "The Redditors Who Took Down a Giant (Sort Of)"

Classical Connections

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party

Karl Marx, Capital

Karl Marx, "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844"

Contemporary Extensions

Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System"

Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism

Pierre Bourdieu, "The Forms of Capital"

Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction

Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum, Cultures of Servitude

System Update

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

III. PATHWAY TO MELTDOWN: Theorizing the Dark Side of Modernity

Introductory Essay: "Do You Ever Get the Feeling You’re Being Watched?"

Classical Connections

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Max Weber, "Basic Sociological Terms"

Max Weber, "The Types of Legitimate Domination"

Max Weber, "Bureaucracy"

Contemporary Extensions

Herbert Marcuse, One–Dimensional Man

Jurgen Habermas, Toward a Rational Society

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish

Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust

System Update

David Graeber, "Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit"

IV. SHIFTING THE PARADIGM: Excluded Voices, Alternative Knowledges

Introductory Essay:

Classical Connections

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Contemporary Extensions

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

Edward Said, Orientalism

Dorothy Smith, The Conceptual Practices of Power

Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought

Julian Go, Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory

System Update

Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology

V. RISE OF THE AVATAR: Connecting Self and Society

Introductory Essay: "Through the Looking Glass of TikTok"

Classical Connections

George Herbert Mead, "Self"

Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life"

Georg Simmel, "The Stranger"

Contemporary Extensions

Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble

Stuart Hall, "Cultural Identity and Diaspora"

Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity

System Update

Sherry Turkle, "Always-On/Always-On-You: The Tethered Self"

Glossary

Index