Social Theory, Volume II

Roberta Garner is a professor in the Department of Sociology at DePaul University. Black Hawk Hancock is Associate Professor of Sociology at DePaul University in Chicago. He is the co-author with Roberta Garner of Changing Theories: New Directions in Sociology (2009) and author of American Allegory: Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination (2013).

• Preface Acknowledgments Reading Theory: A General Introduction Part IV: Transitions and Changes IntroductionThe Marxist HeritageOther Classical Legacies: Weber (and Nietzsche) and DurkheimTowards Conflict ConstructionismSuggested Readings: Part IV Chapter 9: The Social Theory of Erving Goffman 9.1 Erving Goffman (1922-1982)Goffman 's Dramaturgical Model of the SelfReading 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 RegulationReading 9.1.3: Goffman's "The Interaction Order" (1982)Suggested ReadingsStudy 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 PunishmentReading 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 PowerReading 10.1.3: Foucault's "The Subject and the Power" (1982) Suggested ReadingsStudy Guide Chapter 11: The Social Theory of Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)Bourdieu's Social TheoryReading 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 ReadingsStudy Guide Chapter 12: The Social Theory of Stuart Hall Stuart Hall (1932-)Stuart Hall and Ideology, the Production of Culture, and the Politics of RepresentationMedia Encoding and Decoding: The Uncertainty of Hegemonic Outcomes Reading 12.1: Excerpts from Hall's "Encoding/Decoding" (1980)Hall on Race and Ethnicity: Floating SignifiersReading 12.2: Excerpts from Hall's "Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities" (1991)Hall on Hegemony and the Legacy of GramsciReading 12.3: Excerpts from "Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity" (1986)Suggested ReadingsStudy Guide Part V: Dispersion and Difference Introduction Chapter 13: Issues of Race and Ethnicity in a Post-Colonial WorldIntroductionFrantz Fanon (1925-1961)Fanon and the Racial and Colonial DividesReading 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 WinantNew 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 ReadingsStudy GuideKey TermsQuestions and Exercises Chapter 14: Highlighting Gender and Sexuality IntroductionDorothy E. Smith (1926-)Smith's Analysis of Gender, Power, and Perspectives on SocietyReading 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 PraxisReading 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 ReadingsStudy Guide Chapter 15: Conceptions of CultureIntroduction15.1 Raymond Williams (1921-1988)Raymond Williams: The Complexity of Culture and the Structure of FeelingReading 15.1: Excerpts from Williams's Marxism and Literature (1977)15.2 Dick Hebdige (1951-)Hebdige and the Creation of CultureReading 15.2: Excerpts from Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style15.3 Jürgen Habermas (1929-)Democracy and the PublicReading 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 PerspectiveReading 15.4: Excerpts from Jameson's "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" (1984)Suggested ReadingsStudy Guide Chapter 16: Media and Culture in the Information AgeIntroduction16.1 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 ImplosionReading 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 TheoryReading 16.4: Excerpts from Barthes's Mythologies (1957)Suggested ReadingsStudy Guide Chapter 17: Global ViewsIntroduction17.1 Immanuel Wallerstein (1920-)Wallerstein and World Systems TheoryReading 17.1: Excerpts from Wallerstein's The Modern World-System (1974)17.2 Arjun Appadurai (1949-)Appadurai and GlobalizationReading 17.2: Appadurai's "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy" (1990)17.3 Saskia Sassen (1949-)Sassen and the Global CityReading 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 ParticipationReading 17.4: Excerpts from Garcia Canclini's Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity (1995)Suggested ReadingsStudy Guide Sources