BACKGROUND READING (High-level undergraduate texts and introductions)

 

Ashley, David and David M. Orenstein. 1995. Sociological Theory: Classic Statements. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

 

Collins, Randall. 1994. Four Sociological Traditions New York: Oxford

 

Coser, Lewis. 1975. Masters of Sociological Thought. NY: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.

 

Münch, Richard. 1994. Sociological Theory, Vols. 1, 2 & 3. NY: Nelson-Hall.

 

Poloma, Margaret. 1979. Contemporary Sociological Theory. NY: Macmillan.

 

Ritzer, George. 1996. Classical Sociological Theory

----Modern Sociological Theory

----Postmodern Theory

----Sociological Theory.

New York: McGraw Hill

 

Turner, Jonathan. 1994. The Structure of Sociological Theory Belmont, CA: Wadsworth

 

Wallace, Ruth A. and Alison Wolf. 1995. Contemporary Sociological Theory (4th Edition). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

 

Waters, Malcolm. 1994. Modern Sociological Theory. London: Sage.

REQUIRED READING

 

Calhoun, Craig. 1996. Critical Social Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

 

Coser, Lewis A. and Bernard Rosenberg. 1989. Sociological Theory: A Book of Readings(5th edition). Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.

 

Lemert, Charles. 1993. Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic Readings. Boulder, CO: Westview.

 

Malson, Micheline R. et al. 1989. Feminist Theory in Practice and Process. Chicago: University of Chicago.

 

Seidman, Steven. 1994. Contested Knowledge: Social Theory in the Postmodern Era. Oxford: Blackwell.

 

Turner, Bryan S. 1996. The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory. Oxford: Blackwell

The following is a listing of the classic theorists and contemporary perspectives (in alphabetical order) from which students are to choose two (from each) to read and study in more depth. Note: the “perspectives” from which students are to choose are listed to the far left, the ones listed underneath are variants within each perspective. Also, the theorists listed after each perspective are merely meant to be illustrative; they do not comprise an exhaustive list.

 

Classic Theorists (choose at least two)

 

• Emile Durkheim
• Karl Marx
• George H. Mead
• Georg Simmel
• Max Weber

 

Contemporary Perspectives (choose at least two perspectives)

 

• Conflict Theory (Dahrendorf, Collins, Mills)
• Critical Theory (Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Kellner, Habermas)
• Exchange Theory (Homans, Blau, Emerson, Cook, Molm)
• Legitimacy Theories (Berger, Zelditch, Ridgeway)
• Rational Choice (Homans, Coleman, Emerson, Gray)
• Network Theory (Granovetter, Wellman, Burt, Mizruchi)
• Status Characteristics Theory (Berger, Zelditch, Ridgeway)
• Feminist Social Theories (Smith, Harding, Hirsch and Keller)

----Cultural (Gilligan, Ruddick)

----Liberal (Acker, Bem, England) Marxian (Shelton and Agger)

----Psychoanalytic (Chodorow, Dinnerstein, O’Brien)

----Radical (Rich, Lorde, French, Frye, Dworkin)

----Socialist (Harmann, Bartsky, Eisenstein, Fraser, Harstock, Mackinnon, Smith)

----Third-Wave (P. Hill Collins, Haraway, Lorde, hooks, Anzaldua, Lamphere, Glenn, Stacey & Thorne)

• Functionalism/Neo-Functionalism (Parsons, Merton, Alexander, Colomy, Münch)
• Neo-Marxisms (Burawoy, Burris, Milliband)
• Hegelian (Lukács, Gramsci)
• Analytical (Cohen, Roemer, Elster, Wright)
• World Systems/Historical Marxism (Wallerstein)
• Neo-Weberianism (Bourdieu, Parkin)
• Phenomenology/Ethnomethodology (Garfinkel, Berger and Luckmann, Schutz, Zimmerman)
• Postmodernism (Derrida, Baudrillard, Rorty, Foucault, DeLeuze, Guattari, Lyotard, Lacan, Bauman, Harvey, Bell, Jameson)
• Post-Structuralism (Foucault, Bourdieu)
• Structuralism (i.e., French) (de Saussure, Gottdiener, Barthes, Levi-Strauss, Godelier, Althusser)
• Structuration Theory (Giddens)
• Symbolic Interactionism (Blumer, Goffman, Heise, Stryker, Denzin)

 

The following is, first, a list of recommended readings for beginning your more in-depth study of (at least) two of the classic theorists noted above. This is followed by similar listings for each of the previously noted perspectives.

 

 

• CLASSIC THEORY

 

Durkheim, Emile. 1951. Suicide: A Study in Sociology. NY: The Free Press.

________. 1933. The Division of Labor in Society. NY: The Free Press.

________. 1915. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. NY: The Free Press.

________. 1964. The Rules of Sociological Method. NY: The Free Press.

Giddens, Anthony. 1972. Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UniversityPress.

 

Marx, Karl. 1964. Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy. Translated by T. B. Bottomore. NY: McGraw Hill.

________. Capital.Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels. 1972.

________. The Communist Manifesto.

________. Grundisse.

________. The German Ideology McClelland, David. 1978.

Karl Marx: Selected Writings. NY: Oxford.

 

Mead, George Herbert. 1934. Mind, Self, and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago.

 

Lewis, D. and R. Smith. 1980. American Sociology and Pragmatism. Chicago: University of Chicago.

 

Reck, Andrew, J. (Ed.) 1964. Selected Writings: Mead. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.

 

Strauss, Anselm (Ed.). 1977. George Herbert Mead: On Social Psychology. Chicago: University of Chicago.

 

Simmel, Georg. 1950. The Sociology of Georg Simmel. Edited by K. Wolff. NY: The Free Press.

________. 1990. The Philosophy of Money. NY: Routledge.

________. 1955. Conflict and the Web of Group Affiliation. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press.

 

Weber, Max. 1958. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

________. 1963. The Sociology of Religion. Boston: Beacon Press.

Gerth, H. H. and C. Wright Mills. 1946. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. NY: Oxford

 

 

• CONFLICT THEORY

 

Collins, Randall. 1975. Conflict Sociology. NY: Academic.

________. 1979. The Credential Society. NY: Academic.

________. 1981. “On the Microfoundations of Macrosociology. AJS 86: 984-1014.

________. 1988. The Micro Contribution to Macro Sociology. Sociological Theory 6:242-253.

________.1990. “Conflict Theory and the Advance of Macro-Historical Sociology.” Pp. 68-87 in G. Ritzer (ed.) Frontiers of Social Theory. NY: Columbia University.

 

Coser, Lewis. 1956. The Functions of Social Conflict. NY: Free Press.

 

Dahrendorf, Ralf. 1958. “Out of Utopia: Toward a Reorientation of Sociological Analysis.” AJS64:115- 127.

________. 1959. Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society. Stanford, CA: Stanford University.

________.1968. Essays in the Theory of Society. Stanford, CA: Stanford University.

 

Hazelrigg, Lawrence. 1972. “Class, Property and Authority: Dahrendorf’s Critique of Marx’s Theory of Class. Social Forces 50:473-487.

 

Mills, C. Wright. 1955. The Sociological Imagination. NY: Oxford University Press.

________. 1963. Power, Politics and People. NY: Oxford University Press.

 

Turner, Jonathon. 1973. “From Utopia to Where? A Strategy for Reformulating the Dahrendorf Conflict Model.” Social Forces 52:236-244.

 

 

• CRITICAL THEORY

 

Adorno, Theodor W. et al. 1950. The Authoritarian Personality. New York: Harper.

 

Alexander, Jeffrey C. 1985. "Habermas' new critical theory: its promise and problems." AJS91:400-424.

 

Antonio, Robert J. 1981. "Immanent critique as the core of critical theory: Its origins and development in Hegel, Marx and contemporary thought." British J. of Soc. 32:330-345.

 

Arato, Andrew and Eike Gebhardt (eds). 1992. The Essential Frankfurt School Reader. NY: Continuum.

 

Bernstein, Richard (ed). 1985. Habermas and Modernity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

Giddens, Anthony. 1987. "Reason without revolution? the critical theory of Jurgen Habermas" Pp. 225- 252 in Social Theory and Modern Sociology. Stanford: Stanford University.

 

Habermas, Jürgen. 1987. "The Concept of the Lifeworld and the Hermeneutic Idealism of Interpretive Sociology." From The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. 2. Excerpted by S. Seidman. Pp. 165-187 in Jürgen Habermas on Society and Politics.

 

Habermas, Jürgen. 1984. "Social Action and Rationality." From The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. 1. Excerpted by S. Seidman. Pp. 142-164 in Jürgen Habermas on Society and Politics.

 

Habermas, Jurgen. 1991. Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action. Cmabridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

Habermas, Jurgen. 1975. Legitimation Crisis. Boston: Beacon.

 

Habermas, Jurgen. 1991. On the Logic of the Social Sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

Held, David. 1980. Introduction to Critical Theory. Part II. Berkeley: University of California Press

 

Held, David. 1980. "Introduction to Habermas." Pp. 249-259 in Introduction to Critical Theory. Berkeley:University of California Press.

 

Heller, Agnes. 1982. "Habermas and Marxism," (and Habermas' reply) Pp. 21-41 and 219-229 in Habermas: Critical Debates, edited by J. B. Thompson and D. Held. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

 

Honneth, Axel. 1987. "Critical theory." Ppl 347-382 in Social Theory Today, edited by A. Giddens.

 

Horkheimer, Max. 1992. Critical Theory: Selected Essays. New York: Continuum.

 

Horkheimer, Max. 1947. Eclipse of Reason. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Jay, Martin. 1973. The Dialectical Imagination: A history of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research. Boston: Little, Brown.

 

Marcuse, Herbert. 1966. Eros and Civilization: A philosophical inquiry into Freud. Boston: Beacon Press.

 

Marcuse, Herbert. 1964. One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced IndustrialSociety. Boston: Beacon Press.

 

Marcuse, Herbert. 1954. Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the rise of social theory. New York: Humanities Press.

 

Mirchandani, Rekha. 1992. "Habermas, discourse ethics, and assuring the moral point of view." Pp. 231- 250 in Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Volume 12. Greenwich, CT: JAI.

 

Wuthnow, Robert. “Sociology and the Pursuit of Rationality”. Contemporary Sociology 15:194 - 197

 

Zaret, David. 1992. "Critical theory and the sociology of culture." Pp. 1-28 in Current Perspectives inSocial Theory, Volume 12. Greenwich, CT: JAI.

 

• EXCHANGE THEORY (Legitimacy Theories, Action Theory, Rational Choice Theory, Network Theory, Status Characteristics Theory)

 

Bales, Robert F. 1950. Interaction Process Analysis: A Method for the Study of Small Groups. Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley.

 

Berger, Joseph, Cecilia L. Ridgeway, M. Hamit Fisek, and Robert Z. Norman. 1998. “The Legitimation and Delegitimation of Power and Prestige Orders.” American Sociological Review, 63(3): 379_405.

 

Berger, Joseph, David Wagner, and Morris Zelditch. 1985. “Expectation States Theory: Review and assessment.” Pp. 1-72 in Status, Rewards, and Influence, edited by J. Berger and M. Zelditch. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

 

Berger, Joseph, Bernard P. Cohen, and Morris Zelditch. 1972. Status Characteristics and Social Interaction.” American Sociological Review 37:241-255.

 

Blau, Peter M. 1964. Exchange and Power in Social Life. NY: Wiley.

 

Burgess, Robert L. And Ted L. Huston (Eds.) 1979. Social Exchange in Developing Relationships. NY: Academic.

 

Burt, Ronald. 1982. Toward a Structural Theory of Action. NY: Academic.

 

Coleman, James. 1990. Foundations of Social Theory. Cambridge: Belknap Press of HarvardUniversityPress.

 

Coleman, James. 1986. “Social Theory, Social Research and a Theory of Action”. AJS92:1309-35

 

Cook, Karen S. and Richard M. Emerson. 1978. “Power, Equity and Commitment in Exchange Networks.” American Sociological Review 43:721-739.

 

Cook, Karen S. (Ed.) 1987. Social Exchange Theory. Newbury Park, CA: Sage

 

Emerson, Richard M. 1981. “Social Exchange Theory” Pp. 30-65 in Social Psychology: Sociological Perspectives, edited by M. Rosenberg and R. Turner. NY: Basic Books.

 

Emerson, Richard M. 1962. Power-dependence Relations. American Sociological Review 27:41-41.

 

Granovetter, Mark. 1985. "Economic action, social structure, and embeddedness." AJS 91:481-511.

 

Gray, Louis N. and Irving Tallman. 1984. “A Satisfaction Balance Model of Decision Makingand Choice Behavior. Social Psychology Quarterly 47:146-159.

 

Hegtvedt, Karen A., Elaine A. Thompson, Karen S. Cook. 1993. “Power and Equity: What counts in attributions for exchange outcomes?” Social Psychology Quarterly 56:100-119.

 

Homans, George C. 1958 “Social Behavior as Exchange.” American Journal of Sociology62:597-606.

 

Johnson, Cathryn, Jody Clay-Warner, and Stephanie J. Funk. 1996. “Effects of AuthorityStructures and Gender on Interaction in Same-sex Groups.” Social Psychology Quarterly 59:221-236.

 

Kollock, Peter, Philip Blumstein, and Pepper Schwartz. 1994. “The Judgment of Equity in Intimate Relationships.” Social Psychology Quarterly 57:340-351.

 

Levinger, George. 1976. “A Social Psychological Perspective on Marital Dissolution.” Journal of Social Issues 32:21-47.

 

Lovaglia, Michael J. And Jeffrey A. Houser. 1996. “Emotional Reactions and Status in Groups.” American Sociological Review 61:867-883.

 

Lovaglia, Michael J., John Skvoretz, David Willer, and Barry Markovsky. 1995. “Negotiated Exchange in Social Networks.” Social Forces, 75:123_155.

 

Mizruchi, Mark. 1990. “Cohesino, Structural Equivalence, and Similarity of Behavior: An Approach to the Study of Corporate Political Power.” Sociological Theory 8:16-32.

 

Molm, Linda and Karen S. Cook. 1995. “Social Exchange and Social Networks.” Chapter 8 in Cook, Fine and House’s Sociological Perspectives on Social Psychology.

 

Molm, Linda D. 1991. “Affect and Social Exchange: Satisfaction in power-dependence relations.” American Sociological Review 56:475-493.

 

Markovsky, Barry, David Willer, and Travis Patton. 1988. “Power Relations in Exchange Networks.” American Sociological Review, 53:220_236.

 

Markovsky, Barry, John Skvoretz, David Willer, Michael J. Lovaglia, and Jeffrey Erger. 1993. “The Seeds of Weak Power: An Extension of Network Exchange Theory.” American Sociological Review, 58:197_209.

 

Ridgeway, Cecilia L., David Diekema, and Cathryn Johnson. 1995. “Legitimacy, Compliance, and Gender in Peer Groups.” Social Psychology Quarterly 58:298-311.

 

Ridgeway, Cecilia L., and Joseph Berger. 1986. “Expectations, Legitimation, and Dominance Behavior in Task Groups.” American Sociological Review, 51:603_617.

 

Ridgeway, Cecilia L. 1991. “The Social Construction of Status Value: Gender and other nominal characteristics.” Social Forces 70:367-386

 

Ridgeway, Cecilia L. And Henry A. Walker. 1995. “Status Structures.” Chapter 11 in Cook, Fine, and House’s Sociological Perspectives on Social Psychology.

 

Scanzoni, John. 1972. Sexual Bargaining: Power Politics in American Marriage. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

 

Simpson, Richard L. 1972. Theories of Social Exchange. Morristown, NJ: General Learning Press.

 

Singelmann, Peter. 1972. “Exchange as Symbolic Interaction: Convergences between two theoretical perspectives.” American Sociological Review 37: 414-424.

 

Walker, Henry A., George M. Thomas, and Morris Zeldtich, Jr. 1986. “Legitimation, Endorsement, and Stability.” Social Forces, 64:620_643.

 

Wellman, Barry. 1983. “Network Analysis: Some Basic Principles.” Pp. 155-200 in R. Collins(ed.) Sociological Theory - 1983. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

 

Wellman, Barry and Scot Wortley. 1990. “Different Strokes for Different Folks: Community Ties and Social Support.” AJS 96:558-588.

 

Zelditch, Morris, Jr., and Henry A. Walker. 1984. “Legitimacy and the Stability of Authority.” Pp. 1_25 in Advances in Group Processes, Vol. 1. Edited by Edward J. Lawler. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

 

• FEMINIST SOCIAL THEORIES (Cultural, Liberal, Marxian, Psychoanalytic, Radical, Socialist, Third-Wave)

 

Aptheker, Bettina.1989. Tapestries of Life. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.

 

Butler, Judith. 1991. Gender Trouble. NY: Routledge.

 

Butler, Judith and Joan W. Scott. 1992. Feminists Theorize the Political. NY: Routledge.

 

Calhoun, Craig. 1994. "Social Theory and the Politics of Identity." Pp. 9-36 in Social Theory and the Politics of Identity, edited by C. Calhoun. NY: Blackwell.

 

Chafetz, Janet Saltzman. 1988. Feminist Sociology: An Overview of Contemporary Theories. Ithaca, NY: F.E. Peacock.

 

Chafetz, Janet Saltzman. 1994. "Formal Theory construction in Gender Sociology: An Unexploited Gold Mine of Possibilities." Pp. 137-151 in Formal Theory in Sociology:Opportunity of Pitfall, edited by Jerald Hage. Albany, NY: SUNY.

 

Chodorow, Nancy. 1978. The Reproduction of Mothering. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

 

Clough, Patricia Ticineto. 1994. Feminist Thought: Desire, Power and Academic DiscourseCambridge, MA: Blackwell

 

Collins, Patricia Hill. 1992. “Transforming the Inner Circle: Dorothy Smith’s Challenge to Sociological Theory”. Sociological Theory 10:73 - 80

 

Collins, Patricia Hill. 1991. Black Feminist Thought. NY: Routledge.

 

Connell, Robert W. 1987. Gender and Power: Society, the person and sexual politics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

 

de Beauvoir, Simone. 1953. The Second Sex. NY: Knopf.

 

England, Paula. (Ed.) 1993. Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory. NY: Aldine de Gruyter.

 

Flax, Jane. 1990. Thinking Fragments. Berkeley: University of California.

 

Geok-Lin Lim, Shirley. 1990. "Semiotics, Experience and the Material Self: An Inquiry into the Subject of the Contemporary Asian Woman Writer." Women's Studies 18:153-175.

 

Haraway, Donna J. 1991. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. NY: Routledge.

 

Harding, Sandra (ed). 1987. Feminism and Methodology: Social science issues. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

 

Harris, Angela P. 1990. "Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory." Stanford Law Review42:581-616.

 

Hirsch , Marianne and Evelyn Fox Keller. 1990. Conflicts in Feminism. NY: Routledge.

 

hooks, bell. 1989. Talking Back. Boston: South End Press.

 

hooks, bell. 1984. Feminist Theory: From Margin To Center. Boston: South End Press.

 

Irvine, Janice M. 1994. “A Place in the Rainbow: Theorizing Lesbian and Gay Culture”. Sociological Theory 12:232 - 248

 

Lorber, Judith. 1994. Paradoxes of Gender. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

 

McRobbie, Angela. 1994. "Feminism, Postmodernism and the 'Real Me'." Pp. 61-74 in Postmodernism and Popular Culture. NY: Routledge.

 

Mies, Maria. 1986. Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press.

 

Moraga, Cherríe and Gloria Anzaldúa (eds). 1983. This Bridge Called My Back. NY: Kitchen Table.

 

Namaste, Ki. 1994. "The Politics of Inside/Out: Queer Theory, Poststructuralism, and a Sociological Approach to Sexuality." Sociological Theory 12:220-231.

 

O’Brien, Mary. 1981. Feminist Theory and Dialectical Logic. Signs 7(1):144-157.

________. 1981. The Politics of Reproduction. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

 

Rowbotham, Sheila. Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World. NY: Pelican Books.

 

Seidman, Steven. 1994. “Symposium: Queer Theory/Sociology: A Dialogue”. Sociological Theory12:166- 177

 

Smith, Dorothy. 1990. The Conceptual Practices of Power. Boston: Northeastern University.

 

Smith, Dorothy. 1987. The Everyday World as Problematic. Boston: Northeastern University.

 

Somers, Margaret R. and Gloria D. Gibson. 1994. "Reclaiming the Epistemological `Other': Narrative and the Social Constitution of Identity." Pp. 37-99 in Social Theory and the Politics of Identity.

 

Sprague, Joey. 1997. Holy Men and Big Guns: The Cannon in Social Theory. Gender and Society11:88-107.

 

 

• FUNCTIONALISM/NEOFUNCTIONALISM

 

Alexander, Jeffrey C., and Paul Colomy. “Neofunctionalism Today: Reconstructing a Theoretical Tradition”. Ritzer’s Frontiers of Social Theory, pp. 33 - 67.

 

Turner, Jonathan H. 1988. “Is ‘Neofunctionalism’ Really Functional?” Sociological Theory6:110-121

 

Alexander, Jeffrey C. 1983. "Paradigm revision and Parsonianism," in The Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought: Talcott Parsons. Berkeley: University of California.

 

Alexander, Jeffrey C. (ed.) 1985. Neofunctionalism. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

 

Alexander, Jeffrey C. and Paul Colomy. 1985. "Toward Neofunctionalism." Sociological Theory3:11-23.

 

Alexander, Jeffrey C. 1987. "What is theory?" Pp. 1-21 in Twenty Lectures. New York: Columbia University.

 

Alexander, Jeffrey C. 1987. "The Centrality of the Classics." Pp. 11-55 in Social Theory Today, edited by A. Giddens and J. Turner. Stanford: Stanford University.

 

Colomy, Paul. (ed.) 1990. Neofunctionalist Sociology. Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar.

 

Johnson, Miriam M. 1993. "Functionalism and Feminism: Is Estrangement Necessary?" Pp. 115-130 in Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory.

 

Lechner, Frank. 1985. "Modernity and its discontents," in Neofunctionalism, edited by J. Alexander. Beverly Hills: Sage.

 

Moore, Wilbert E. 1978. "Functionalism," in A History of Sociological Analysis, edited by T. Bottomore and R. Nisbet. New York: Basic.

 

Munch, Richard. 1987. "Parsonian theory today: In search of a new synthesis." Pp. 116-155 inSocial Theory Today, edited by A. Giddens and J. H. Turner. Stanford: Stanford University.

 

Nisbet, Robert. 1966. The Sociological Tradition. NY: Basic Books.

 

Parsons, Talcott. 1937. The Structure of Social Action. NY: McGraw-Hill.

________. 1951. The Social System. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.

 

Parsons, T. And E. Shils et al. (Eds.). Theories of Society: Foundations of Modern Social Theory. (2 vols)

 

Sciulli, David and Dean Gerstein. 1985. "Social theory and Talcott Parsons in the 1980s." Annual Review of Sociology 11:369-387.

 

Turner, Jonathon and Alexandra R. Maryanski. 1988. "Is neofunctionalism really functional?" Sociological Theory 6:110-121.

 

 

• NEO-MARXISMS (Heglian, Analytical, World-Systems, Historical)

 

Anderson, Perry. 1974. Passages From Antiquity to Feudalism, Part I, Chapter 3, Part II, Chapters 1 and 2. London: Humantities Press.

 

Antonio, Robert J. “Immanent Critique as the Core of Critical Theory: It’s Origins and Developments in Hegel, Marx and Contemporary Thought”. British Journal of Sociology32:330-345

 

Antonio, Robert J. “The Decline of the Grand Narrative of Emancipatory Modernity: Crisis orRenewal in Neo-Marxian Theory?” Pp. 88-116 in G. Ritzer (ed.) Frontiers of Social Theory.

 

Bottomore, Tom. 1978. "Marxism and sociology" in A History of Sociological Analysis, edited by T. Bottomore and R. Nisbet. New York: Basic.

 

Burawoy, Michael. 1982. "Introduction: the resurgence of Marxism in American Sociology." AJS 88:S1-S30.

 

Burris, Val. 1987. "The neo-Marxist synthesis of Marx and Weber on class," Pp. 67-90 in The Marx- Weber Debate, edited by N. Wiley. Beverly Hills: Sage.

 

Cohen, Gerald A. 1986. "The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom." Pp. 237-259 in Analytical Marxism, edited by J. Roemer. Cambridge: Cambridge University.

 

Dandaneau, Steven P. 1992. "An immanent critique of post-marxism." Pp. 155-178 in Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Volume 12. Greenwich, CT: JAI.

 

Dunn, Dana et al. 1993. "Macrostructural Perspectives on Gender Inequality." Pp. 69-90 in Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory, edited by Paula England. NY: Aldine de Gruyter

 

Hartmann, Heidi. 1981. "The unhappy marriage of marxism and feminism: Towards a more progressive union." Pp. 1-42 in Women and Revolution, edited by L. Sargent. Boston: South End Press.

 

Hopkins, Terence K. 1982. The Study of the Capitalist World-Economy: Some IntroductoryConsiderations. Pp. 9-38 in World-Systems Analysis, Edited by Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

 

Mayer, Tom. 1994. Analytical Marxism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

Miliband, Ralph. 1987. "Class analysis." Pp. 325-346 in A. Giddens (ed. ) Social Theory Today.

 

Przeworski, A. 1986. "New directions in Marxian theory of exploitation and class." Pp. 81-113 inAnalytical Marxism, edited by J. Roemer. NY: Cambridge University.

 

Roemer, John E. (ed.) 1986. Analytic Marxism. Cambridge: Cambridge University.

 

Shelton, Beth Anne and Ben Agger. 1993. "Shotgun Wedding, Unhappy Marriage, No-Fault Divorce? Rethinking the Feminism-Marxism Relationship." Pp. 25-42 in Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory.

 

Smith, Dorothy. 1990. "The Ideological Practice of Sociology." Pp. 31-57 in The Conceptual Practices of Power.

 

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1984. The Politics of the World-Economy: The States, the Movements, and the Civilizations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1993. The Present State of the Debate on World Inequality. Pp. 217-230 in Development and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Inequality, Edited by Mitchell Seligson and John Passe-Smith. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.

 

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1996. Social Science and Contemporary Society. International Sociology 11:7- 25.

 

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1999. The End of the World As We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

 

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2000a. The Essential Wallerstein. New York: The New Press.

 

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2000b. Globalization or the Age of Transition? International Sociology15:249- 65.

 

Wright, Eric Olin. 1986. "What is middle about the middle class?" Pp. 114-140 in Analytical Marxism, edited by J. Roemer. Cambridge: Cambridge University.

 

 

• NEO-WEBERIANISM

 

Antonio, Robert F. and Ronald M. Glassman (eds.) 1985. A Weber-Marx Dialogue. Lawrence, KS: Kansas University.

 

Bourdieu, Pierre and James S. Coleman. 1991. Social Theory for a Changing Society. New York: Westview Press.

 

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. Outline of a Theory of Practice. NY: Cambridge University.

 

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1984. Distinction. Cambridge: Harvard University.

 

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1981. "Structures, strategies, and the habitus." Pp. 86-96 in French Sociology, edited byC. Lemert. New York: Columbia University.

 

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1986. "Social Space and Symbolic Power." Pp. 123-139 in In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology. Stanford: Stanford University.

 

Brubaker, Roger. 1985. "Rethinking classical theory: the sociological vision of Pierre Bourdieu."Theory and Society 14: 745-775.

 

Burawoy, Michael. 1989. "Marxism without micro-foundations." Socialist Review 89:53-86.

 

Calhoun, Craig. 1995. “Habitus, Field, and Capital: Historical Specificity in the Theory of Practice”. Pp. 132-161 in Critical Social Theory. Oxford: Blackwell Fine,

 

Gary Alan. 1995. “Wittgenstein’s Kitchen: Sharing Meaning in Restaurant Work”. Theory and Society 24: 245 - 269

 

Giddens, Anthony and David Held. (eds.) 1982. Classes, Power, and Conflict: Classical and Contemporary Debates. Berkeley: University of California.

 

Giddens, Anthony. 1980. "Classes, capitalism, and the state." Theory and Society 9:877-894.

 

Hays, Sharon. 1994. "Structure and Agency and the Sticky Problem of Culture." Sociological Theory12(1):57-72.

 

Jopke, C. 1986. "Bourdieu and social class." Berkeley Journal of Sociology 31:53-78.

 

Lowith, Karl. 1982. Max Weber and Karl Marx. London: Allen & Unwin.

 

Manza, Jeff. 1992. "Classes, status groups, and social closure: A critique of neo-Weberian social theory." Pp. 275-302 in Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Volume 12. Greenwich, CT: JAI.

 

Murphy, Raymond. 1983. “The Struggle for Scholary Recognition: The Development of the Closure Problematic in Sociology”. Theory and Society 12:631-658

 

Murphy, R. 1988. Social Closure. NY: Oxford.

 

Parkin, Frank 1979. Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique New York: Columbia UniversityPress

 

Whimster, S. and S. Lash. (eds.) 1987. Max Weber: Rationality and Modernity. London: Allen and Unwin.

 

Wiley, Norbert (ed.) 1987. The Marx-Weber Debate. Beverly Hills: Sage.

 

Wright, Eric O. and others. 1990. Debates on Classes. London: Verso Press.

 

 

• PHENOMENOLOGY/ETHNOMETHODOLOGY

 

Atkinson, Paul. 1988. Ethnomethodology: A Critical Review. Annual Review of Sociology14:441-465.

 

Atkinson, J. M. and John Heritage. (Eds.) 1984. Structures of Social Action. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.

 

Berger, Peter and Thomas Luckmann. 1967. The Social Construction of Reality. Garden City,NY:Anchor.

 

Boden, Deirdre. 1990. “The World as it Happens: Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis”. Pp. 185-214 in G. Ritzer, Frontiers of Social Theory.

 

Boudon, Raymond. 1987. "The individualistic tradition in sociology." The Micro-Macro Linkedited byJ. Alexander et al. Berkeley: University of California Press.

 

Button, Graham. 1987. Answers as Interactional Products: Two Sequential Practices Used in Interviews.Social Psychology Quarterly 50:160-171.

 

Button, Graham. (Ed.). 1991. Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Clayman, Steven E. 1993. Booing: The Anatomy of a Disaffiliative Response. American Sociological Review 58:110-130.

 

Gallant, Mary and Sherryl Kleinman. 1983. "Symbolic Interactionism vs. Ethnomethodology." Symbolic Interaction 6:1-18.

 

Garfinkel, Harold. 1967. Studies in Ethnomethodology. Englewood Cliffs, NY: Prentice-Hall.

 

Helle, Horst J. and S. N. Eisenstadt (eds). 1985. Micro-Sociological Theory. Beverly Hills: Sage.

 

Heritage, John C. 1987. "Ethnomethodology," in Social Theory Today, edited by A. Giddens.

 

Heritage, John and David Greatbatch. 1986. Generating Applause: A Study of Rhetoric and Response in Party Political Conferences. American Journal of Sociology 92:110-157.

 

Heritage, John. 1984. Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology. Cambridge: Polity Press.

 

Hilbert, Richard A. 1990. Ethnomethodology and the Micro-Macro Order. American Sociological Review55:794-808.

 

Hilbert, Richard A. 1992. The Classical Roots of Ethnomethodology: Durkheim, Weber, and Garfinkel. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

 

Manning, Peter and George Ray. 1993. Shyness, Self-Confidence, and Social Interaction. Social Psychology Quarterly 56:178-192.

 

Maynard, Douglas W. and Steven E. Clayman. 1991. The Diversity of Ethnomethodology. AnnualReview of Sociology 17:385-418.

 

Mehan, Hugh and Houston Woods. 1975. The Reality of Ethnomethodology. NY: Wiley.

 

Pollner, Melvin. 1987. Mundane Reason: Reality in Everyday and Sociological Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Psathas, G. (ed.). 1973. Phenomenological Sociology: Issues and Applications. NY: Wiley.

 

Schegloff, Emanuel. 1992. Repair After Next Turn: The Last Structurally Provided Defense of Intersubjectivity in Conversation. American Journal of Sociology 97:1295-1345.

 

Sharrock, Wes and Bob Anderson. 1986. The Ethnomethodologists. Chichester, England: Ellis Horwood.

 

Turner, R. (Ed.) 1974. Ethnomethodology. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin.

 

West, Candace and Sarah Fenstermaker. 1993. "Power, Inequality and the Accomplishment of Gender: An Ethnomethodological View." Pp. 151-165 in Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory.

 

Whalen, Jack, Don H. Zimmerman, and Marilyn R. Whalen. 1988. When Words Fail: A Single Case Analysis. Social Problems 35:335-361.

 

Whalen, Marilyn R. and Don H. Zimmerman. 1987. Sequential and Institutional Contexts in Calls for Help. Social Psychology Quarterly 50:172-185.

 

Zimmerman, Don H. 1978. Ethnomethodology. American Sociologist 13:5-15.

 

 

• POSTMODERNISM

 

Baudrillard, Jean. 1988. Simulacra and Simulations. Pp. 166-184 in Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings, edited by Mark Poster. Stanford, CA: Stanford University.

 

Bauman, Zygmunt. 1988. "Is there a postmodern sociology?" Theory, Culture, and Society5:217-237.

 

Best, Steven and Douglas Kellner. 1991. "Baudrillard en route to Postmodernity." Pp. 111-145 in Postmodern Theory. NY: Guilford.

 

D'Amico, Robert. 1992. "Defending social science against the postmodern doubt," Pp. 137-155 in Postmodernism and Social Theory, edited by S. Seidman and D. Wagner. NY: Blackwell.

 

Denzin, Norman K. 1986. "Postmodern social theory." Sociological Theory 4:194-204.

 

Denzin, Norman K. 1991. "Postmodern Social Theory" and "Takes on the Postmodern" Pp. 20-52 inImages of Postmodern Society. Newbury Park, CA: Sage

 

Dickens, David and Andrea Fontana. 1994. Postmodernism and Social Inquiry. NY: Guilford Press.

 

Farganis, Sondra. 1994. "Postmodernism and Feminism" in Postmodernism and Social Inquiry.

 

Featherstone, Mike. 1988. "In pursuit of the postmodern." Theory, Culture, and Society 5:195-216.

 

Featherstone, Mike. 1989. "Postmodernism, Cultural Change, and Social Practice." Pp. 117-138 in Postmodernism/Jameson/Critique, edited by Douglas Kellner.

 

Flax, Jane. 1990. Thinking Fragments. Berkeley: University of California.

 

Foster, Hal. (ed.) 1983. The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Seattle: Bay Press.

 

Fraser, Nancy and Linda J. Nicholson. 1990. "Social criticism without philosophy: An encounter between feminism and postmodernism." Pp. 19-38 in Feminism/ Postmodernism, edited byLinda J. Nicholson. NY: Routledge.

 

Harvey, David. 1989. The Condition of Postmodernity. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell.

 

Jameson, Frederic. 1984. "Postmodernism or the cultural logic of late capitalism." New Left Review, No. 146:53-92.

 

Kellner, Douglas. (ed.) 1989. Postmodernism/Jameson/Critique. Washington, D.C.: Maisonneuve Press.

 

Lyon, David. 1994. Postmodernity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

 

Lyotard, Jean-Francois 1984. The Postmodern Condition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.

 

O'Neill, John. 1995. The Poverty of Post Modernism. London: Routledge

 

Rosenau, Pauline Marie. 1992. Postmodernism and the Social Sciences. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

 

Seidman, Steven. 1991. “The End of Sociological Theory: The Postmodern Hope”. Sociological Theory9: 131-146

 

Seidman, Steven. 1991. “Postmodern Anxiety: The Politics of Epistemology.” Sociological Theory9:180-190

 

Seidman, Steven. and David G. Wagner. 1992. Postmodernism and Social Theory. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

 

Smart, Barry. 1990. Modernity, postmodernity, and the present," in Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity. London: Sage.

 

 

• POSTSTRUCTURALISM

 

Agger, Ben. 1991. "Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism: Their Sociological Relevance." Annual Review of Sociology 17:105-131.

 

Arac, Jonathon. 1988. After Foucault. New Brunswick: Rutgers.

 

Barthes, Roland. 1979. "From work to text." In Josue Hariri (ed), Textual Strategies: Perspectives in Poststructuralist Criticism. Ithaca: Cornell University.

 

Best, Steven. 1994. "Foucault, Postmodernism, and Social Theory" in Postmodernism and Social Inquiry.

 

Brenner, Neil. 1994. “Foucault’s New Functionalism” Theory and Society 23:679-709

 

Derrida, Jacques. 1978. "Structure, sign and play in the discourse of the human sciences." In Writing and Difference. Chicago: University of Chicago.

 

Foucault, Michel. 1988. Politics, Philosophy, Culture. Edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman, translated byAlan Sheridan et al. NY: Routledge.

 

Foucault, M. 1980. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972 - 1977, Edited byColin Gordon. New York: Pantheon Books

 

Foucault, Michel. 1979. "What is an author?" In Josue Hariri (ed), Textual Strategies: Perspectives inPoststructuralist Criticism.

 

Giddens, Anthony. 1982. "From Marx to Nietzsche? Neo-conservatism, Foucault and problems in contemporary political theory," in Profiles and Critiques in Social Theory. Berkeley: University of California.

 

Giddens, Anthony. 1987. "Structuralism, post-structuralism, and the production of culture," Pp.195-223 in Social Theory Today.

 

Gottdiener, M. 1994. "Semiotics and Postmodernism" in Postmodernism and Social Inquiry.

 

Harstock, Nancy. 1990. "Foucault on Power: A Theory for Women?" Pp. 157-175 in Feminism/Postmodernism, edited by L. J. Nicholson. NY: Routledge.

 

Hoy, David C. (ed) 1986. Foucault: A Critical Reader. NY: Basil Blackwell.

 

Kellner, Douglas. 1989. Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond. Stanford.

 

Lemert, Charles. 1979. "Language, structure, and measurement: Structuralist semiotics and sociology." AJS 84:929-957.

 

Lemert, Charles. 1994. "Social Theory at the End of a Short Century." Sociological Theory12(2):140- 152.

 

Lemert, Charles. 1990. "The uses of French structuralisms in sociology." Frontiers of Social Theory, edited by G. Ritzer.

 

O'Neill, John. 1986. "The disciplinary society: from Weber to Foucault." British Journal of Sociology 37:42-60.

 

Poster, Mark. 1989. Critical Theory and Poststructuralism. Ithaca: Cornell.

 

Rossi, Ino. 1983. From the Sociology of Symbols to the Sociology of Signs. NY: Columbia University.

 

Sawicki, Jana. 1988. "Feminism and the Power of Foucaldian Discourse." Pp. 161-178 in After Foucault, edited by J. Arac. New Brunswick: Rutgers.

 

Smart, Barry. 1993. "New Times, Old Troubles." Pp. 11-39 in Postmodernity: Key Ideas. London: Routledge.

 

Smart, Barry. 1982. "Foucault, sociology, and the problem of human agency." Theory and Society11:121-141.

 

Sturrock, John. (ed). 1979. Structuralism and Since: From Levi Strauss to Derrida. NY: Oxford.

 

Weedon, Chris. 1987. "Principles of post-structuralism," in Feminist Practice and Post-Structuralist Theory. London: Blackwell.

 

 

 

• STRUCTURALISM

 

Althusser, Louis. 1977. "Marxism and humanism" in For Marx. London: New Left Books.

 

Appelbaum, Richard. 1979. "Born-again Functionalism? A reconsideration of Althusser's Structuralism." The Insurgent Sociologist 9:18-33.

 

Benton, Ted. 1984. The Rise and Fall of Structural Marxism: Althusser and His Influence. NY: St. Martin's.

 

Blau, Peter M. 1974. Inequality and Heterogeneity. New York: Free Press

 

Bottomore, Tom and Robert Nisbet.1978. "Structuralism," in A History of Sociological Analysis, edited by T. Bottomore and R. Nisbet. New York: Basic.

 

Boudon, Raymond. 1971. The Uses of Structuralism. London: Heinemann.

 

Burris, Val. 1979. "Introduction: The structuralist influence in Marxist theory and research." TheInsurgent Sociologist 9:4-17.

 

Clarke, S. 1981. The Foundations of Structuralism. Sussex: Harvester.

 

DiTomaso, Nancy. 1982. "'Sociological reductionism' from Parsons to Althusser." ASR 47:14-28.

 

Dunn, Dana et al. 1993. "Macrostructural Perspectives on Gender Inequality." Pp. 69-90 in Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory.

 

Gardner, Howard. 1972. The Quest for Mind: Piaget, Levi-Strauss, and the Structuralist Movement. New York: Knopf.

 

Lane, Michael. (Ed.). 1970. Introduction to Structuralism. New York: Basic Books.

 

Lemert, Charles C. “The Uses of French Structuralisms in Sociology”. Pp. 230-254 in Ritzer’s Frontiers of Social Theory.

 

Lenski, Gerhard. 1988. Rethinking macrosociological theory." ASR 53:163-171.

 

Levi-Strauss, Claude. 1969. The Raw and the Cooked. New York: Harper & Row.

________. 1966. The Savage Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Mayhew, Bruce H. 1980. "Structuralism versus individualism: Part I, shadowboxing in the dark."Social Forces 59:627-648.

 

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Sturrock, John. (ed). 1979. Structuralism and Since: From Levi Strauss to Derrida. NY: Oxford.

 

Whitemeyer, Joseph M. 1994. "Why Actor Models are Integral to Structural Analysis." Sociological Theory 12(2):153-165.

 

 

 

• STRUCTURATION THEORY

 

Archer, M. S. 1982. "Structuration versus morphogenesis: On combining structure and action." British J. of Soc. 3:445-483.

 

Callincos, Alex. 1985. "Anthony Giddens: a contemporary critique." Theory and Society 14:133-174.

 

Clark, Jon et al. (eds.) 1990. Anthony Giddens: Consensus and Controversy. London: Falmer.

 

Cohen, Ira J. 1987. "Structuration Theory and Social Praxis." Pp. 273-308 in Social Theory Today, edited by A. Giddens and J. Turner. Stanford, CA: Stanford University.

 

Cohen, Ira J. 1989. Structuration Theory. NY: St. Martin’s Press.

 

Craib, Ian. 1992. Anthony Giddens. NY: Routledge.

 

Giddens, Anthony. 1984. The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration. Berkeley: University of California Press.

 

Giddens, Anthony. 1979. Central Problems in Social Theory. London: Macmillan.

 

Giddens, Anthony. 1971. Capitalism and Modern Social Theory. London: Cambridge UniversityPress.

________. 1991. Modernity and Self-Identity. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

________. 1982. Profiles and Critiques in Social Theory. Berkeley: University of California Press.

________. 1995. Politics, Sociology, and Social Theory. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

 

Giddens, Anthony. 1987. "Nine Theses on the Future of Sociology." Pp. 22-51 in Social Theoryand Modern Sociology. Stanford, CA: Stanford University.

 

Giddens, Anthony and David Held. 1982. Classes, Power, and Conflict: Classical and Contemporary Debates. Berkeley: University of California Press.

 

Giddens, Anthony and Jonathon Turner (eds). 1987. Social Theory Today. Stanford: StanfordUniversityPress.

 

McLennan, G. 1984. "Critical of positive theory? A comment on the status of Anthony Giddens'social theory." Theory, Culture, and Society 2:23-29.

 

Perinbanayagam, R. S. 1985. Signifying Acts: Structure and Meaning in Everyday Life. Carbondale, IL: Suthern Illinois University Press.

 

Stinchcombe, Arthur. 1990. "Milieu and Structure Updated: A Critique of the Theory of Structuration." Pp. 47-56 in Anthony Giddens: Consensus and Controversy," edited by J. Clark, C. Modgil, and S. Modgil. London: Falmer.

 

Turner, Jonathan H. 1986. “Review Essay: The Theory of Structuration”. AJS 91:969-977.

 

 

 

• SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM

 

Becker, Howard. 1963. Outsiders. NY: Free Press.

 

Blumer, Herbert. 1969. Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method. Berkeley: University of California Press.

 

Britt, Lory and David R. Heise. 1992. “Impressions of Self-Directed Action.” Social Psychology Quarterly 55:335-350.

 

Burke, Peter, J. 1997. An Identity Model for Network Exchange. ASR 62:134-150.

 

Burke, Peter, J. 1991. Identity Processes and Social Stress. ASR 56:836-849.

 

Burke, Peter J. and Donald C. Reitzes. 1991. “An Identity Theory Approach to Commitment.”Social Psychology Quarterly 54:239-251.

 

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Cooley, Charles Horton. 1922. Human Nature and Social Order. NY: Schocken Books.

 

Denzin, Norman K. 1993. Sexuality and Gender: An Interactionism/Poststructural Reading." Pp. 199- 222 in Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory.

 

Denzin, Norman K. 1992. Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Studies. NY: Basil Blackwell.

 

Denzin, Norman K. 1992. Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Studies. Oxford: Blackwell.

 

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Goffman, Erving. 1967. Interaction Ritual. NY: Pantheon Books.

 

Goffman, Erving. 1959. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. NY: Anchor Books

 

Goffman, Erving. 1963. Stigma: Notes on the Management of a Spoiled Identity. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

 

Goffman, Erving. 1983. “The Interaction Order” American Sociological Review 48:1-17.

 

Goffman, Erving. 1955. “On Face-work.” Psychiatry 18:213-231.

 

Goffman, Erving. 1961. Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and other Inmates. NY: Doubleday/Anchor.

 

Gonos, George. 1977. “‘Situation’ versus ‘Frame’: The ‘Interactionist’ and the ‘Structuralist’ Analyses of Everyday Life.” American Sociological Review 42:854-867.

 

Heise, David R. 1979. Understanding Events: Affect and the Construction of Social Action. NY: Cambridge University Press.

 

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Helle, Horst J. and S. N. Eisenstadt (eds). 1985. Micro-Sociological Theory. Beverly Hills: Sage.

 

Heritage, John C. 1987. "Ethnomethodology," in Social Theory Today.

 

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Musolf, Gil Richard. 1992. "Structure, institutions, power, and ideology: New directions in Symbolic Interactionism." The Sociological Quarterly 33:171-190.

 

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Smith-Lovin, Lynn 1990. “Emotion as the Confirmation and Disconfirmation of Identity: An affect- control model.” Pp. 238-270 in Research Agendas in the Sociology of Emotions, edited by T. D. Kemper. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

 

Smith-Lovin, Lynn and David R. Heise. 1988. Analyzing Social Interaction: Advances in AffectControl Theory. NY: Gordon and Breach.

 

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Stryker, Sheldon. 1987. “The Vitalization of Symbolic Interactionism.” Social Psychology Quarterly50:83-94.

 

Stryker, Sheldon and Richard T. Serpe. 1994. “Identity Salience and Psychological Centrality: Equivalent, overlapping, or complementary concepts?” Social Psychology Quarterly 57:16-35.

 

Stryker, Sheldon. 1980. Symbolic Interactionism: A Social Structural Version. Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin/Cummings.

 

Stryker, Sheldon. 1981. Symbolic Interactionism: Themes and Variations. Pp. 3-29 in Social Psychology: Sociological Perspectives, edited by M. Rosenberg and R. Turner. NY: Basic Books.

 

Stryker, Sheldon and Anne Statham. 1985. “Symbolic Interaction and Role Theory.” Pp. 311-378 in The Handbook of Social Psychology, vol. 1, edited by G. L. Lindzey and Elliot Aronson. NY: Random House.

 

Stryker, Sheldon. 1987. “Identity Theory: Developments and Extensions.” Pp. 89-103 in Self and Identity: Psychosocial Perspectives, edited by K. Yardley and T. Honess. NY: John Wiley & Sons.

 

Stryker, Sheldon. 1989. “Further Developments in Identity Theory: Singularity versus multiplicity of self.” Pp. 35-57 in Sociological Theories in Progress, edited by J. Berger, M. Zelditch, and B. Anderson. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

 

Tseëlon, Efrat. 1992. "Is the Presented Self Sincere? Goffman, Impression Management and the Postmodern Self." Theory, Culture & Society 9:115-128