The Development of Sociological Theory

A. Javier Trevino is the author and editor of several books including The Social Thought of C. Wright Mills (SAGE, 2012), Investigating Social Problems (SAGE, 2014) and C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution: An Exercise in the Art of Sociological Imagination (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). He has served as President of the Justice Studies Association (2000-2002) and as President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (2010-2011). He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, UK (2006), a Fulbright Scholar to the Republic of Moldova (2009), and since 2014 has been a Visiting Professor in Social and Political Theory at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

PART I. THE NATURE, STRUCTURE, AND TYPES OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY On Intellectual Craftsmanship - C. Wright Mills The Importance of General Theory - Talcott Parsons Middle-Range Theories - Robert K. Merton Theory as Explanation - George C. Homans The Oversocialized View of Human Nature - Dennis H. Wrong The Theoretical Infrastructure - Alvin W. Gouldner PART II. THE ENLIGHTENMENT ROOTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY The Problem of Order - Thomas Hobbes The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Laws, Mores, and Manners - Charles de Montesquieu PART III. PROTOSOCIOLOGY An Unjust Social Order - Henri de Saint-Simon The Hierarchical Structure of Society - Henri de Saint-Simon Order and Progress - Auguste Comte Law of the Three Stages - Auguste Comte Social Progress - Herbert Spencer The Evolution of Society - Herbert Spencer The General Happiness - Harriet Martineau Folkways and Mores - William Graham Sumner In-Groups, Out-Groups, and Ethnocentrism - William Graham Sumner PART IV. THE CLASSICAL TRADITION Commodity Fetishism - Karl Marx Alienated Labor - Karl Marx Historical Materialism - Karl Marx Mechanical and Organic Solidarity - Emile Durkheim Types of Suicide - Emile Durkheim Social Facts - Emile Durkheim The Rationalism of Western Civilization - Max Weber The Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber Types of Authority - Max Weber The Stranger - Georg Simmel Dyad and Triad - Georg Simmel The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel PART V. THE INTERSTITIAL STATEMENTS The Ruling Class - Gaetano Mosca The Circulation of the Elites - Vilfredo Pareto The Iron Law of Oligarchy - Robert Michels The Crowd Mind - Gustave Le Bon The Laws of Imitation - Gabriel Tarde The Herd Instinct - Sigmund Freud The Conscience of Society - Sigmund Freud Conspicuous Consumption - Thorstein Veblen Cultural Lag - William F. Ogburn Ideational, Sensate, and Idealistic Cultures - Pitirim A. Sorokin Imminent Sociocultural Change - Pitirim A. Sorokin The Pattern Variables - Talcott Parsons The Social System - Talcott Parsons The AGIL Schema - Talcott Parsons Manifest and Latent Functions - Robert K. Merton Social Structure and Anomie - Robert K. Merton The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - Robert K. Merton Structural Integration and Change - Hans H. Gerth Character and Conformity - David Riesman PART VII. THE CRITICAL EDGE Social Structures, Social Conflicts, and Safety-Valve Institutions - Lewis A. Coser Class Conflict and Structural Change - Ralf Dahrendorf The Sociology of Knowledge - Karl Mannheim Hegemony - Antonio Gramsci The Reification of Consciousness - Georg Lukacs Critical Theory - Max Horkheimer The Culture Industry - Theodor W. Adorno The Designer as Cultural Worker - C. Wright Mills PART VIII. THE SELF, INTERACTIONS, AND EXCHANGES The Definition of the Situation - W. I. Thomas Self and Society - George Herbert Mead The Looking-Glass Self - Charles Horton Cooley Primary Groups - Charles Horton Cooley Performances in Everyday Life - Erving Goffman Managing Stigma - Erving Goffman The Meaningfully Produced Social World - Alfred Schuetz Society as Objective Reality - Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann Ethnomethodology - Harold Garfinkel Obligatory Exchange - Marcel Mauss Social Behavior as Exchange - George C. Homans Reciprocity, Power Imbalance, and Dialectical Change - Peter M. Blau Individual Interests and Systems of Exchange - James S. Coleman PART IX. COMMUNITY AND CIVIL SOCIETY Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft - Ferdinand Toennies The Quest for Community - Robert A. Nisbet Civil Religion in America - Robert N. Bellah A Normative Theory of Moral Community - Philip Selznick Communitarianism - Amitai Etzioni The Civilizing Process - Norbert Elias PART X. RACE AND GENDER The Veil and Double Consciousness - W. E. B. Du Bois The Talented Tenth - W. E. B. Du Bois The Economic Status of Women - Charlotte Perkins Gilman Feminist Standpoint Theory - Dorothy E. Smith Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins Performative Theory of Gender Acts - Judith Butler PART XI. SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS Autopoietic Systems - Niklas Luhmann Lifeworld and Social System - Juergen Habermas World-Systems Analysis - Immanuel Wallerstein The Network Society - Manuel Castells Actor-Network-Theory - Bruno Latour PART XII. LATE MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITY Sociological Intervention - Alain Touraine Structuration Theory - Anthony Giddens Ontological Security, Existential Anxiety, and Self-Identity - Anthony Giddens Habitus - Pierre Bourdieu The Risk Society - Ulrich Beck Liquid Modernity - Zygmunt Bauman Global Modernities - Roland Robertson The Postmodern Condition - Jean-Francois Lyotard Hyperreality - Jean Baudrillard

"This comprehensive selection makes a powerful case for the importance of the sociological imagination. Trevino shows how theorists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries explored the ideas of community, power, culture, race, and gender...[and] how systems, networks, and information flows are seen as driving a transition from modernity to an emerging late modern or postmodern society." -John Scott, University of Essex (UK) and University of Copenhagen -- John Scott "Trevino has succeeded in the quite difficult task of producing an anthology that includes all the major authors and currents of sociological theory. His introductions to the readings present them clearly and concisely." -Sandro Segre, University of Genoa, Italy -- Sandro Segre "A. Javier Trevino's erudition, thoughtfulness, and flair for pedagogy shine through in every aspect of this impressive, well-crafted volume: in its overall architecture, which neatly encompasses both historical chronology and thematics; in its judicious selection of texts, which span more than two centuries of the sociological tradition; in its careful textual abridgements, which allow essential arguments and insights to be easily accessible; and in its clear, elegant, and well-informed essays at the start of each section." -Mustafa Emirbayer, University of Wisconsin-Madison -- Mustafa Emirbayer