The sociology book

Foundations of sociology. A physical defeat has never marked the end of a nation / Ibn Khaldun -- Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarreled, in troops and companies / Adam Ferguson ---- Science can be used to build a better world / Auguste Comte ---- The Declaration of Independence bears no relation to half the human race / Harriet Martineau ---- The fall of the bourgeoisie and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable / Karl Marx ---- Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft / Ferdinand Tönnies ---- Society, like the human body, has interrelated parts, needs, and functions / Émile Durkheim ---- The iron cage of rationality / Max Weber ---- Many personal troubles must be understood in terms of public issues / Charles Wright Mills ---- Pay to the most commonplace activities the attention accorded extraordinary events / Harold Garfinkel ---- Where there is power there is resistance / Michel Foucault ---- Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original / Judith Butler ---- Social inequalities. I broadly accuse the bourgeoisie of social murder / Friedrich Engels ---- The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line / W.E.B. DuBois ---- The poor are excluded from the ordinary living patterns, customs, and activities of life / Peter Townsend ---- There ain't no black in the Union Jack / Paul Gilroy ---- A sense of one's place / Pierre Bourdieu ---- The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined / Edward Said ---- The ghetto is where the black people live / Elijah Anderson ---- The tools of freedom become the sources of indignity / Richard Sennett ---- Men's interest in patriarchy is condensed in hegemonic masculinity / R.W. Connell ---- White women have been complicit in this imperialist, white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy / Bell Hooks ---- The concept of 'patriarch' is indispensable for an analysis of gender inequality / Sylvia Walby ---- Modern living. Strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type / Georg Simmel ---- The freedom to remake our cities and ourselves / Henri Lefebvre ---- There must be eyes on the street / Jane Jacobs ---- Only communication can communicate / Niklas Luhmann ---- Society should articulate what is good / Amitai Etzioni ---- McDonaldization affects virtually every aspect of society / George Ritzer ---- The bonds of our communities have withered / Robert D. Putnam ---- Disneyization replaces mundane blandness with spectacular experiences / Alan Bryman ---- Living in a loft is like living in a showcase / Sharon Zukin ---- Living in a global world. Abandon all hope of totality, you who enter the world of fluid modernity / Zygmunt Bauman ---- The modern world-system / Immanuel Wallerstein ---- Global issues, local perspective / Roland Robertson ---- Climate change is a back-of-the-mind issue / Anthony Gidens ---- No social justice without global cognitive justice / Boaventura de Sousa Santos ---- The unleashing of productive capacity by the power of the mind / Manuel Castells ---- We are living in a world that is beyond controllability / Ulrich Beck ---- It sometimes seems as if the whole world is on the move / John Urry ---- Nations can be imagined and constructed with relatively little historical straw / David McCrone ---- Global cities are strategic sites for new types of operations / Saskia Sassen ---- Different societies appropriate the materials of modernity differently / Arjun Appadurai ---- Processes of change have altered the relations between peoples and communities / David Held ---- Culture and identity. The 'I' and the 'me' / G.H. Mead ---- The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned / Antonio Gramsci ---- The civilizing process is constantly moving 'forward' / Norbert Elias ---- Mass culture reinforces political repression / Herbert Marcuse ---- The danger of the future is that men may become robots / Erich Fromm ---- Culture is ordinary / Raymond Williams ---- Stigma refers to an attribute that is deeply discrediting / Erving Goffman We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning / Jean Baudrillard ---- Modern identities are being decentered / Stuart Hall ---- All communities are imagined / Benedict Anderson ---- Throughout the world, culture has been doggedly pushing itself center stage / Jeffrey Alexander ---- Work and consumerism. Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure / Thorstein Veblen ---- The Puritan wanted to work in a calling ---- we are forced to do so / Max Weber ---- Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination / Daniel Bell ---- The more sophisticated machines become, the less skill the worker has / Harry Braverman ---- Automation increases the worker's control over his work process / Robert Blauner ---- The Romantic ethic promotes the spirit of consumerism / Colin Campbell ---- In processing people, the product is a state of mind / Arlie Russell Hochschild ---- Spontaneous consent combines with coercion / Michael Burawoy ---- Things make us just as much as we make things / Daniel Miller ---- Feminization has had only a modest impact on reducing gender inequalities / Teri Lynn Caraway ---- The role of institutions. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature / Karl Marx ---- The iron law of oligarchy / Robert Michels ---- Healthy people need no bureaucracy to mate, give birth, and die / Ivan Illich ---- Some commit crimes because they are responding to a social situation / Robert K. Merton ---- Total institutions strip people of their support systems and their sense of self / Erving Goffman ---- Government is the right disposition of things / Michel Foucault ---- Religion has lost its plausibility and social significance / Bryan Wilson ---- Our identity and behavior are determined by how we are described and classified / Howard S. Becker ---- Economic crisis is immediately transformed into social crisis / Jürgen Habermas ---- Schooling has been at once something done to the poor and for the poor / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis ---- Societies are subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic / Stanley Cohen ---- The time of the tribes / Michel Maffesoli ---- How working-class kids get working-class jobs / Paul Willis ---- Families and intimacies. Differences between the sexes are cultural creations / Margaret Mead ---- Families are factories that produce human personalities / Talcott Parsons ---- Western man has become a confessing animal / Michel Foucault ---- Heterosexuality must be recognized and studied as an institution / Adrienne Rich ---- Western family arrangements are diverse, fluid, and unresolved / Judith Stacey ---- The marriage contract is a work contract / Christine Delphy ---- Housework is directly opposed to self-actualization / Ann Oakley ---- When love finally wins it has to face all kinds of defeat / Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim ---- Sexuality is as much about beliefs and ideologies as about the physical body / Jeffrey Weeks ---- Queer theory questions the very grounds of identity / Steven Seidman ---- Glossary--

Profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their biggest ideas, including issues of equality, diversity, identity, and human rights ; the effects of globalization ; the role of institutions ; and the rise of urban living in modern society.