Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Reading Theory: A General Introduction

Part IV: Transitions and Changes
Introduction
The Marxist Heritage
Other Classical Legacies: Weber (and Nietzsche) and Durkheim
Towards Conflict Constructionism
Suggested Readings: Part IV

Chapter 9: The Social Theory of Erving Goffman
9.1 Erving Goffman (1922-1982)
Goffman 's Dramaturgical Model of the Self
Reading 9.1.1: Exerpts from Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959)
Conceptualization of Everyday Experience: Goffman's Frame Analysis (1974)
Reading 9.1.2: Excerpts from Goffman's Frame Analysis (1974)
Interaction as the Matrix of Social Regulation
Reading 9.1.3: Goffman's "The Interaction Order" (1982)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide

Chapter 10: Power, Bodies, and Subjects: The Social Theory of Michel Foucault
10.1 Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
Foucault's Analysis of Surveillance and Punishment
Reading 10.1.1: Foucault's "The Body of the Condemned" from Discipline and Punish (1975)
Reading 10.1.2: Foucault's "Panopticon" from Discipline and Punish (1975)
Foucault's Analysis of Power
Reading 10.1.3: Foucault's "The Subject and the Power" (1982)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide

Chapter 11: The Social Theory of Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
Bourdieu's Social Theory
Reading 11.1: Excerpts from Bourdieu's Sociology in Question (1993)
Habitus and Bourdieu's The Logic of Practice (1990)
Reading 11.2: Excerpts from Bourdieu's The Logic of Practice (1990)
Classifications and Categories as Tools of Power: Bourdieu's Distinction (1979)
Reading 11.3: Excerpts from Bourdieu’s Distinction (1979)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide

Chapter 12: The Social Theory of Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall (1932-)
Stuart Hall and Ideology, the Production of Culture, and the Politics of Representation
Media Encoding and Decoding: The Uncertainty of Hegemonic Outcomes
Reading 12.1: Excerpts from Hall's "Encoding/Decoding" (1980)
Hall on Race and Ethnicity: Floating Signifiers
Reading 12.2: Excerpts from Hall's "Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities" (1991)
Hall on Hegemony and the Legacy of Gramsci
Reading 12.3: Excerpts from "Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity" (1986)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide

Part V: Dispersion and Difference
Introduction

Chapter 13: Issues of Race and Ethnicity in a Post-Colonial World
Introduction
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
Fanon and the Racial and Colonial Divides
Reading 13.1: Excerpts from Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
13.2 Edward Said (1935-2003)
Edward Said: Orientalism and the Other
Reading 13.2: Excerpts from Said's Orientalism (1978)
13.3 Michael Omi and Howard Winant
New Ways of Theorizing Race: Omi and Winant's Racial Formation in the United States (1986)
Reading 13.3: Excerpts from Omi and Winant's Racial Formation in the United States (1986)
13.4 David Roediger (1952-)
David Roediger's The Wages of Whiteness (1991)
Reading 13.4: Roediger'sThe Wages of Whiteness (1991)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide
Key Terms
Questions and Exercises

Chapter 14: Highlighting Gender and Sexuality
Introduction
Dorothy E. Smith (1926-)
Smith's Analysis of Gender, Power, and Perspectives on Society
Reading 14.1: Excerpts from Smith's The Conceptual Practices of Power (1990)
14.2 Judith Butler (1956-)
Butler and the Structural Conditions of the Performance of Gender: Bodies That Matter (1993)
Reading 14.2: Excerpts from Butler's Bodies That Matter (1993)
14.3 Angela Y. Davis (1944-)
Angela Y. Davis: Theory and Praxis
Reading 14.3: Excerpts from Lisa Lowe's Interview of Angela Y. Davis (July 1, 1995)
14.4 Raewyn (R.W.) Connell (1944-)
R.W. Connell on the Construction of Masculinities
Reading 14.4: Excerpts from Connell's Masculinities (1995)
14.5 Society and Sexualities: John D'Emilio (1948-)
Sexuality and Capitalism: D'Emilio's "Capitalism and Gay Identity" (1983)
Reading 14.5: D'Emilio's "Capitalism and Gay Identity" (1983)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide

Chapter 15: Conceptions of Culture
Introduction
15.1 Raymond Williams (1921-1988)
Raymond Williams: The Complexity of Culture and the Structure of Feeling
Reading 15.1: Excerpts from Williams's Marxism and Literature (1977)
15.2 Dick Hebdige (1951-)
Hebdige and the Creation of Culture
Reading 15.2: Excerpts from Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style
15.3 Jürgen Habermas (1929-)
Democracy and the Public
Reading 15.3.1: Excerpt from Legitimation Crisis (1973)
Reading 15.3.2: Excerpt from Habermas's The Theory of Communicative Action (1981)
15.4 Fredric Jameson (1934-)
Jameson: Analyzing Postmodern Culture from a Marxist Perspective
Reading 15.4: Excerpts from Jameson's "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" (1984)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide

Chapter 16: Media and Culture in the Information Age
Introduction
16.1 Guy Debord (1931-1994)
Debord and The Society of the Spectacle (1967)
Reading 16.1: Excerpt from Debord's The Society of the Spectacle (1967)
16.2 Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
Baudrillard's Media, Simulacra, and Implosion
Reading 16.2.1: Excerpts from Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulations (1981)
Reading 16.2.2: Baudrillard's "The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media" (1985)
16.3 Postmodern Marxism: Paul Willis (1945-)
What Do (Postmodern) Marxist Ethnographers Do?
Reading 16.3: Excerpts from Willis's The Ethnographic Imagination (2000)
16.4 Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
Barthes, Myths and Critical Social Theory
Reading 16.4: Excerpts from Barthes's Mythologies (1957)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide

Chapter 17: Global Views
Introduction
17.1 Immanuel Wallerstein (1920-)
Wallerstein and World Systems Theory
Reading 17.1: Excerpts from Wallerstein's The Modern World-System (1974)
17.2 Arjun Appadurai (1949-)
Appadurai and Globalization
Reading 17.2: Appadurai's "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy" (1990)
17.3 Saskia Sassen (1949-)
Sassen and the Global City
Reading 17.3: Excerpts from Sassen's "The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier" (2000)
17.4 Nestor Garcia Canclini (1939-)
Garcia Canclini: Hybridity, Globalization, and New Forms of Participation
Reading 17.4: Excerpts from Garcia Canclini's Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity (1995)
Suggested Readings
Study Guide

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About the Author

Roberta Garner is a professor in the Department of Sociology at DePaul University.
Black Hawk Hancock is Associate Professor of Sociology at DePaul University in Chicago. He is the co-author with Roberta Garner of Changing Theories: New Directions in Sociology (2009) and author of American Allegory: Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination (2013).