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I. Classical Sociological Theory

1. KARL MARX

8. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology

9. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party

10. Karl Marx, Capital

11. Karl Marx, “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”

2. EMILE DURKHEIM

1. Emile Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Society

2. Emile Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method

3. Emile Durkheim, Suicide

4. Emile Durkheim, Elementary Forms of Religious Life

3. MAX WEBER

16. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

17. Max Weber, “Basic Sociological Terms”

18. Max Weber, “The Types of Legitimate Domination”

19. Max Weber, “Bureaucracy”

20. Max Weber, “Class, Status, Party”

4. GEORG SIMMEL

33. Georg Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life”

34. Georg Simmel, “The Stranger”

5. DU BOIS AND DE BEAUVOIR

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

26. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

II. Mid–Century American Sociology

6. PRAGMATISM

32. George Herbert Mead, “Self”

7. STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM

5. Talcott Parsons and Edward Shils, “Categories of the Orientation and Organization of Action”

8. PHENOMENOLOGY

7. Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality

9. SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM

35. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

10. ETHNOMETHODOLOGY

6. Harold Garfinkel, Studies in Ethnomethodology

III. Recent Developments

11. CRITICAL THEORY

21. Herbert Marcuse, One–Dimensional Man

22. Jurgen Habermas, Toward a Rational Society

12. POSTSTRUCTURALISMS

23. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish

36. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality

14. Pierre Bourdieu, “The Forms of Capital”

15. Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction

13. CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST THEORY

30. Dorothy Smith, The Conceptual Practices of Power

31. Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought

37. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble

14. RACE, ETHNICITY, AND POSTCOLONIALISM

28. Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

29. Edward Said, Orientalism

27. Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States

15. MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITY

12. Immanuel Wallerstein, “The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System”

13. Manuel Castells, “Materials for an Exploratory Theory of the Network Society”

24. Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity

38. Zygmunt Bauman, “From Pilgrim to Tourist: or a Short History of Identity”