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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

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