Required reading : sociology's most influential books /
edited by Dan Clawson.
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1998.
- vii, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Canon and Anti-Canon for a Fragmented Discipline / Best-Sellers by American Sociologists: An Exploratory Study / On Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions - How to Become a Dominant American Social Scientist: The Case of Theda Skocpol / On Charles Tilly, From Mobilization to Revolution - Historicization of Protest as a Route to General Theory: Stepping Back to Move Forward / On Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish - Discipline and Punish: The Birth of a Postmodern Middle-Range / On Charles Murray, Losing Ground - Charles Murray: Losing Ground, Gaining Power / On Norman H. Nie, Dale H. Bent, and C. Hadlai Hull, SPSS - Doing It Ourselves / On Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Culture - Geertz's Ambiguous Legacy / Dan Clawson and Robert Zussman -- Herbert J. Gans -- Jeff Goodwin -- Roger V. Gould -- Jonathan Simon -- Theodore J. Lowi and Gwendolyn Mink -- Barry Wellman -- Ann Swidler -- On Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice - Sociology's Other Poststructuralism / On Gary Becker, A Treatise on the Family Gary Becker on the Family: His Genius, Impact, and Blind Spots / On Arlie Hochschild, The Managed Heart - Emotion Management as Emotional Labor / On David Featherman and Robert Hauser, Opportunity and Change - Models of Influence / On Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital - A Classic of Its Time / On Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Men and Women of the Corporation - What's Gender Got to Do with It? / On Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System - Promethean Sociology / On William J. Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race - What's Race Got to Do with It? / Craig Calhoun -- Paula England and Michelle J. Budig -- Lynn Smith-Lovin -- David B. Grusky and Kim A. Weeden -- Michael Burawoy -- Christine L. Williams -- Harriet Friedmann -- Aldon Morris -- On Edward Said, Orientalism - Empire and Knowledge: More Troubles, New Opportunities for Sociology / On Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering - The Gendering of Social Theory: Sociology and Its Discontents / On Boston's Women's Health Book Collective, Our Bodies, Ourselves - Feminist Subversions / Sociological Politics and Contemporary Sociology's Ten Most Influential Books / Taking the List as It Stands: What Does It Say about Sociology Today? / Who's In? Who's Out? / Steven Seidman -- Barbara Laslett -- Linda Gordon and Barrie Thorne -- Gerald Marwell -- Rachel A. Rosenfeld -- Charles Lemert.
155849152X (alk. paper) 1558491538 (pbk. : alk. paper)
98011944
Sociology--Book reviews.
Sociology literature.
Best books.
HM73 / .R45 1998
810.9358 / DER
Includes bibliographical references.
Canon and Anti-Canon for a Fragmented Discipline / Best-Sellers by American Sociologists: An Exploratory Study / On Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions - How to Become a Dominant American Social Scientist: The Case of Theda Skocpol / On Charles Tilly, From Mobilization to Revolution - Historicization of Protest as a Route to General Theory: Stepping Back to Move Forward / On Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish - Discipline and Punish: The Birth of a Postmodern Middle-Range / On Charles Murray, Losing Ground - Charles Murray: Losing Ground, Gaining Power / On Norman H. Nie, Dale H. Bent, and C. Hadlai Hull, SPSS - Doing It Ourselves / On Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Culture - Geertz's Ambiguous Legacy / Dan Clawson and Robert Zussman -- Herbert J. Gans -- Jeff Goodwin -- Roger V. Gould -- Jonathan Simon -- Theodore J. Lowi and Gwendolyn Mink -- Barry Wellman -- Ann Swidler -- On Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice - Sociology's Other Poststructuralism / On Gary Becker, A Treatise on the Family Gary Becker on the Family: His Genius, Impact, and Blind Spots / On Arlie Hochschild, The Managed Heart - Emotion Management as Emotional Labor / On David Featherman and Robert Hauser, Opportunity and Change - Models of Influence / On Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital - A Classic of Its Time / On Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Men and Women of the Corporation - What's Gender Got to Do with It? / On Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System - Promethean Sociology / On William J. Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race - What's Race Got to Do with It? / Craig Calhoun -- Paula England and Michelle J. Budig -- Lynn Smith-Lovin -- David B. Grusky and Kim A. Weeden -- Michael Burawoy -- Christine L. Williams -- Harriet Friedmann -- Aldon Morris -- On Edward Said, Orientalism - Empire and Knowledge: More Troubles, New Opportunities for Sociology / On Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering - The Gendering of Social Theory: Sociology and Its Discontents / On Boston's Women's Health Book Collective, Our Bodies, Ourselves - Feminist Subversions / Sociological Politics and Contemporary Sociology's Ten Most Influential Books / Taking the List as It Stands: What Does It Say about Sociology Today? / Who's In? Who's Out? / Steven Seidman -- Barbara Laslett -- Linda Gordon and Barrie Thorne -- Gerald Marwell -- Rachel A. Rosenfeld -- Charles Lemert.
155849152X (alk. paper) 1558491538 (pbk. : alk. paper)
98011944
Sociology--Book reviews.
Sociology literature.
Best books.
HM73 / .R45 1998
810.9358 / DER