SOC 535
Seminar in Contemporary Sociological Theory
Fall 2026
Topics
- Theoretical & philosophical content
- Central features and problems of three • major streams of modern social thought
Readings
- ISBN 7804824357
- Adorno, Theodor & Max Horkheimer. (1997 [1947]) Dialectic of Enlightenment. Trans. John Cumming (London, New York: Verso)
- Asad, Talal. 2003. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press)
- Asad, Talal. 2007. On Suicide Bombing. (New York: Columbia University Press)
- Baudrillard, Jean. 1975 [1973]. The Mirror of Production. Trans. Mark Poster. (St. Louis: Telos Press.)
- Baudrilled, Jean. 1994 [1981]. Simulacra and Simulation. Trans. Sheila Faria Glaser. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press). Berger Peter & Thomas Luckmann, 1991 [1966]. The Social Construction of Knowledge: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. (London: Penguin)
- Butler, Judith. 1999 [1990]. Gender Trouble. (New York & London: Routledge)
- Ellul, Jacques. 1964 [1954]. The Technological Society. Trans. John Wilkinson. (New York: Vintage Books)
- Fanon, Frantz. 2004 [1963]. The Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Richard Philcox. (New York: Grove Press)
- Foucault, Michel. 1977 [1975]. Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. (New York: Vintage Books)
- Foucault, Michel. 1978 [1976]. The History of Sexuality vol. 1, trans. Robert Hurley. (New York: Pantheon Books)
- Foucault, Michel. 2009 [2004]. Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France 1977-78. Trans. Graham Burchell. (New York & London: Palgrave Macmillan). Habermas, Jürgen. 1984 [1981]. Theory of Communicative Action; Moral Consciousness & Communicative Action. Two vols. Trans. Thomas McCarthy. (Boston: Beacon Press.)
- Hartsock, Nancy. 1983. ‘The Feminist Standpoint.’ In Harding, Sandra, and Merrill B. Hintikka, eds. Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. 283-310. (Dordrecht: D. Reidel.)
- Heidegger, Martin. 1993 [1954]. ‘The Question Concerning Technology’ in Heidegger, Basic Writings, trans. David Farrell Krell. (San Francisco: Harper Collins). Hill Collins, Patricia. 2000. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. 2nd edn. (New York & London: Routledge)
- Horkheimer, Max. 2000 [1937]. ‘Traditional & Critical Theory’ in Horkheimer, Critical Theory: Selected Essays. Trans. Matthew J. O’Connell. (New York: Continuum)
- Husserl, Edmund. 1970 [1954].The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. Trans. David Carr. (Evanston IL: Northwestern University Press)
- Jameson, Frederic (2000 [1984]), ‘Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,’ in Michael Hardt & Kathi Weeks (eds), The Jameson Reader. (Oxford: Blackwell.)
- Kant, Immanuel. 1996a [1784]. ‘What is Enlightenment?’ in Kant, Practical Philosophy, ed. & trans. Mary J. Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 11-22
- Kant, Immanuel. 1996b [1793]. ‘On the common saying, ‘That may be correct in theory, but it is of no use in practice,’ in Kant, Practical Philosophy, ed. & trans. Mary J. Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 273-310
- Lukács, Georg. 1971 [1923]. History & Class Consciousness. Trans. Rodney Livingstone. (Cambridge MA: The MIT Press)
- Lyotard, Jean-François. 1984 [1979]. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Trans. Geoff Bennington & Brian Massumi. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press)
- Weber, Max, (2004), ‘Science as a Vocation,’ in The Vocation Lectures, trans. Rodney Livingstone (Indianapolis & Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company)
- Weber, Max (2005) The Protestant Ethic & the Spirit of Capitalism, trans. Talcott Parsons, (London & New York: Routledge)
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- SOC 535 CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGIC THEORY · Reading-list link; contents not retrieved ↗
- 2019-Fall-SOC-535-SEMINAR-A2 ↗2019
- 2022-Fall-SOC-535-SEMINAR-800 ↗2022
- 2023-Fall-SOC-535-SEMINAR-A1 ↗2023
- 2024-Fall-SOC-535-SEMINAR-A01 ↗2024
- 2025-Fall-SOC-535-LECTURE-A01 ↗2025
- 2026-Fall-SOC-535-SEMINAR-A01 ↗2026
- 2026-Fall-SOC-535-SEMINAR-A02 ↗2026
- No textbook required according to this source. Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Partial automated extraction.