Required reading : sociology's most influential books /

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Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Clawson, Dan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • Canon and anti-canon for fragmented discipline / Dan Clawson and Robert Zussman
  • Best-sellers by American sociologists: an exploratory study / Herbert J. Gans
  • How to become a dominant American social scientist: the case of Theda Skocpol / Jeff Goodwin
  • Historicization of protest as a route to general theory: stepping back to move forward / Roger V. Gould
  • Discipline and punish: the birth of a postmodern middle-range / Jonathan Simon
  • Charles Murray: Losing ground, gaining power / Theodore J. Lowi and Gwendolyn Mink.
  • Doing it ourselves / Barry Wellman
  • Geertz's ambiguous legacy / Ann Swidler
  • Sociology's other poststructuralism / Craig Calhoun
  • Gary Becker on the family: his genius, impact, and blind spots / Paula England and Michelle J. Budig
  • Emotion management as emotional labor / Lynn Smith-Lovin
  • Models of influence / David B. Grusky and Kim A. Weeden
  • Classic of its time / Michael Burawoy
  • What's gender got to do with it? / Christine L. Williams
  • Promethean sociology / Harriet Friedmannn.
  • What's race got to do with it? / Aldon Morris
  • Empire and knowledge: more troubles, new opportunities for sociology / Steven Seidman
  • Gendering of social theory: sociology and its discontents / Barbara Laslett
  • Feminist subversions / Linda Gordon and Barrie Thorne
  • Sociological politics and Contemporary Sociology's ten most influential books / Gerald Marwell
  • Taking the list as it stands: what does it say about sociology today? / Rachel A. Rosenfeld
  • Who's in? Who's out? / Charles Lemert.