The third edition of this popular reader reflects considerable changes. The framework for understanding theory as a set of conversations over time is maintained and deepened, but Volume II now begins with a focus on key transitional theorists who helped reconceive of classical theory in new ways. Extending from the classical tradition, chapters on race, gender, culture, media and globalization show how contemporary theory builds on the past even as it moves in new directions. New contextual and biographical materials surround the primary readings, and each chapter includes a study guide with key terms, discussion questions, and innovative classroom exercises. The result is a fresh and expansive take on social theory that foregrounds a plurality of perspectives and reflects contemporary trends in the field, while being an accessible and manageable teaching tool.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Reading Theory: A General Introduction
Part IV: Transitions and Changes
Introduction
The Marxist Heritage
Other Classical Legacies: Weber (and Nietzsche) and Durkheim
Towards Conflict Constructionism
Suggested Readings: Part IV
Chapter 9: The Social Theory of Erving Goffman
9.1 Erving Goffman (1922-1982)
Goffman 's Dramaturgical Model of the Self
Reading 9.1.1: Exerpts from Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959)
Conceptualization of Everyday Experience: Goffman's Frame Analysis (1974)
Reading 9.1.2: Excerpts from Goffman's Frame Analysis (1974)
Interaction as the Matrix of Social Regulation
Reading 9.1.3: Goffman's "The Interaction Order" (1982)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Chapter 10: Power, Bodies, and Subjects: The Social Theory of Michel Foucault
10.1 Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
Foucault's Analysis of Surveillance and Punishment
Reading 10.1.1: Foucault's "The Body of the Condemned" from Discipline and Punish (1975)
Reading 10.1.2: Foucault's "Panopticon" from Discipline and Punish (1975)
Foucault's Analysis of Power
Reading 10.1.3: Foucault's "The Subject and the Power" (1982)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Chapter 11: The Social Theory of Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
Bourdieu's Social Theory
Reading 11.1: Excerpts from Bourdieu's Sociology in Question (1993)
Habitus and Bourdieu's The Logic of Practice (1990)
Reading 11.2: Excerpts from Bourdieu's The Logic of Practice (1990)
Classifications and Categories as Tools of Power: Bourdieu's Distinction (1979)
Reading 11.3: Excerpts from Bourdieu’s Distinction (1979)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Chapter 12: The Social Theory of Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall (1932-)
Stuart Hall and Ideology, the Production of Culture, and the Politics of Representation
Media Encoding and Decoding: The Uncertainty of Hegemonic Outcomes
Reading 12.1: Excerpts from Hall's "Encoding/Decoding" (1980)
Hall on Race and Ethnicity: Floating Signifiers
Reading 12.2: Excerpts from Hall's "Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities" (1991)
Hall on Hegemony and the Legacy of Gramsci
Reading 12.3: Excerpts from "Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity" (1986)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Part V: Dispersion and Difference
Introduction
Chapter 13: Issues of Race and Ethnicity in a Post-Colonial World
Introduction
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
Fanon and the Racial and Colonial Divides
Reading 13.1: Excerpts from Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
13.2 Edward Said (1935-2003)
Edward Said: Orientalism and the Other
Reading 13.2: Excerpts from Said's Orientalism (1978)
13.3 Michael Omi and Howard Winant
New Ways of Theorizing Race: Omi and Winant's Racial Formation in the United States (1986)
Reading 13.3: Excerpts from Omi and Winant's Racial Formation in the United States (1986)
13.4 David Roediger (1952-)
David Roediger's The Wages of Whiteness (1991)
Reading 13.4: Roediger'sThe Wages of Whiteness (1991)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Key Terms
Questions and Exercises
Chapter 14: Highlighting Gender and Sexuality
Introduction
Dorothy E. Smith (1926-)
Smith's Analysis of Gender, Power, and Perspectives on Society
Reading 14.1: Excerpts from Smith's The Conceptual Practices of Power (1990)
14.2 Judith Butler (1956-)
Butler and the Structural Conditions of the Performance of Gender: Bodies That Matter (1993)
Reading 14.2: Excerpts from Butler's Bodies That Matter (1993)
14.3 Angela Y. Davis (1944-)
Angela Y. Davis: Theory and Praxis
Reading 14.3: Excerpts from Lisa Lowe's Interview of Angela Y. Davis (July 1, 1995)
14.4 Raewyn (R.W.) Connell (1944-)
R.W. Connell on the Construction of Masculinities
Reading 14.4: Excerpts from Connell's Masculinities (1995)
14.5 Society and Sexualities: John D'Emilio (1948-)
Sexuality and Capitalism: D'Emilio's "Capitalism and Gay Identity" (1983)
Reading 14.5: D'Emilio's "Capitalism and Gay Identity" (1983)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Chapter 15: Conceptions of Culture
Introduction
15.1 Raymond Williams (1921-1988)
Raymond Williams: The Complexity of Culture and the Structure of Feeling
Reading 15.1: Excerpts from Williams's Marxism and Literature (1977)
15.2 Dick Hebdige (1951-)
Hebdige and the Creation of Culture
Reading 15.2: Excerpts from Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style
15.3 Jürgen Habermas (1929-)
Democracy and the Public
Reading 15.3.1: Excerpt from Legitimation Crisis (1973)
Reading 15.3.2: Excerpt from Habermas's The Theory of Communicative Action (1981)
15.4 Fredric Jameson (1934-)
Jameson: Analyzing Postmodern Culture from a Marxist Perspective
Reading 15.4: Excerpts from Jameson's "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" (1984)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Chapter 16: Media and Culture in the Information Age
Introduction
16.1 Guy Debord (1931-1994)
Debord and The Society of the Spectacle (1967)
Reading 16.1: Excerpt from Debord's The Society of the Spectacle (1967)
16.2 Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
Baudrillard's Media, Simulacra, and Implosion
Reading 16.2.1: Excerpts from Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulations (1981)
Reading 16.2.2: Baudrillard's "The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media" (1985)
16.3 Postmodern Marxism: Paul Willis (1945-)
What Do (Postmodern) Marxist Ethnographers Do?
Reading 16.3: Excerpts from Willis's The Ethnographic Imagination (2000)
16.4 Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
Barthes, Myths and Critical Social Theory
Reading 16.4: Excerpts from Barthes's Mythologies (1957)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Chapter 17: Global Views
Introduction
17.1 Immanuel Wallerstein (1920-)
Wallerstein and World Systems Theory
Reading 17.1: Excerpts from Wallerstein's The Modern World-System (1974)
17.2 Arjun Appadurai (1949-)
Appadurai and Globalization
Reading 17.2: Appadurai's "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy" (1990)
17.3 Saskia Sassen (1949-)
Sassen and the Global City
Reading 17.3: Excerpts from Sassen's "The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier" (2000)
17.4 Nestor Garcia Canclini (1939-)
Garcia Canclini: Hybridity, Globalization, and New Forms of Participation
Reading 17.4: Excerpts from Garcia Canclini's Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity (1995)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Sources
