Contemporary Social Thought

Social Theory: Roots & Branches (6th ed.), edited by Peter Kivisto. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780190060398.

“The German Ideology”, by Karl Marx (with Friedrich Engels) (pp. 10-13)

“What is a Social Fact”, by Emile Durkheim (pp. 32-37)

“Social and Individual Aspects of Mind”, by Charles Horton Cooley (pp. 124-127)

“The Fusion of the “I” and the “Me” in Social Activities”, by George Herbert Mead (pp. 138-142)

“The Sociology of Charismatic Authority”, by Max Weber (pp. 71-77)

“What Pragmatism Means”, by William James (pp. 128-133)

“On Mechanical and Organic Solidarity”, by Emile Durkheim (pp. 28-31)

“The Stranger”, by Georg Simmel (pp. 98-101)

“Manifesto of the Communist Party”, by Karl Marx (pp. 14-21)

“Class, Status, Party”, by Max Weber (pp. 78-83)

“The Sociology of Charismatic Authority”, by Max Weber ((pp. 71-77)

“Alienate Labor”, by Karl Marx (pp. 4-9)

“Bureaucracy”, by Max Weber (pp. 65-69)

“Conspicuous Consumption”, by Thorstein Veblen (pp. 120-123)

“Democracy and Human Nature”, by John Dewey (pp. 134-136)

“On Marriage”, by Harriet Martineau (pp. 103-105)

“The Dependence of Women”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (pp. 116-118)

“Note on the Notion of Civilization”, by Emile Durkheim (with Marcel Mauss) (available on D2L)

“Civilization and Its Discontents”, by Sigmund Freud (available on D2L)

“The Spirit of Capitalism”, by Max Weber (55-64)

“The Metropolis and Mental Life”, by Georg Simmel (pp. 90-97)

“Fashion”, by Georg Simmel (pp. 85-89)