This is the html version of the file http://www3.uakron.edu/sociology/readinglist2004.pdf.
G o o g l e automatically generates html versions of documents as we crawl the web.
To link to or bookmark this page, use the following url: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:gSLjZq1fOncJ:www3.uakron.edu/sociology/readinglist2004.pdf+soc+theory+reading+list&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us


Google is neither affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content.
These search terms have been highlighted: soc theory reading list 

Page 1
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY READING LIST
Joint Doctoral Program in Sociology - The University of Akron and Kent State
University
Attached is the reading list for students preparing to take their comprehensive
examinations in sociological theory.
The attached list has three distinct components:
(1) The required readings (see page 3). These are readings that all students taking the
exam are expected to read.
(2) A listing of classic theorists and contemporary perspectives from which each student
is to choose (at least) two for further in-depth study (i.e., at least two classic theorists and
at least two contemporary perspectives). (See page 4.)
(3) Following the list on page 3, there is a more extensive list of readings from which
students might choose to begin their more in-depth study.
NOTE: The readings listed here are merely recommendations of possible places one
might start more in-depth study. This latter list should not be construed as being
completely representative of the works of all theorists and perspectives. Instead, the
list is being offered merely as a guide for students who might be unsure where to
begin in their more in-depth study of classic theorists and contemporary perspectives.
More Information on Exam Structure and Content
(1) The exam will test students’ knowledge of both classic and contemporary sociological
theory.
(2) The exam will consist of four parts: (a) one required question that each student taking
the exam will need to answer; (b) a “basic knowledge” section covering classic
theory; (c) a “basic knowledge” section covering contemporary theory; and (d) an
“integrative” section which will in some way ask students to interrelate
theories/perspectives with one another.
Note: Depending on the nature of the question, exams will be evaluated not only on
the basis of “accuracy” but also on the organization of the answer and the
student’s demonstration of analytic ability and basic writing skills. For example,
has each part of the question been answered adequately? Does the argument being
presented make sense? Does the answer demonstrate a doctoral-level ability to
analyze theoretical material? Obviously, accuracy will be most important for
“basic” questions while analytical ability will be more thoroughly evaluated in the
required and integrative questions.

Page 2
Finally, students preparing for the exams are strongly encouraged to review previous
exam questions. These questions are available in each department.
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. (These are 4 different books) 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.

Page 3
The readings listed on this page are to be studied by each student in preparation for
taking the comprehensive theory examination.
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.

Page 4
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)

Page 5
Structuration Theory (Giddens)
Symbolic Interactionism (Blumer, Goffman, Heise, Stryker, Denzin)
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
University
Press.
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.

Page 6
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.” AJS
64:115-
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." AJS
91:400-424.
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.

Page 7
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 Industrial
Society.
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 in
Social 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 Harvard
University
Press.
Coleman, James. 1986. “Social Theory, Social Research and a Theory of Action”. AJS
92:1309-35
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.

Page 8
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 Making
and
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 Sociology
62:597-606.
Johnson, Cathryn, Jody Clay-Warner, and Stephanie J. Funk. 1996. “Effects of Authority
Structures 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.

Page 9
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 Discourse
Cambridge,
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.

Page 10
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 Review
42:581-
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
Theory
12:166- 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 Can[n]on in Social Theory. Gender and
Society
11:88-107.
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 Theory
6:110-121
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 Theory
3:11-23.
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

Page 11
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 in
Social
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 Sociology
32:330-345
Antonio, Robert J. “The Decline of the Grand Narrative of Emancipatory Modernity: Crisis or
Renewal
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.

Page 12
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 Introductory
Considerations. 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 in
Analytical 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 Sociology
15:249-
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 by
C. 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

Page 13
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
Theory
12(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.
Murphy, Raymond. 1983. "The struggle for scholarly recognition: the development of the closure
problematic in sociology." Theory and Society 12:631-658.
Parkin, Frank 1979. Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique New York: Columbia
University
Press
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 Sociology
14:441-465.
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 Link
edited by
J. 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.

Page 14
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
Review
55:794-808.
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.
Annual
Review 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 Society
5:217-237.
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
in
Images of Postmodern Society. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Page 15
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 by
Linda 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
Theory
9: 131-146
Seidman, Steven. 1991. “Postmodern Anxiety: The Politics of Epistemology.” Sociological
Theory
9:180-190
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 by
Alan Sheridan et al. NY: Routledge.

Page 16
Foucault, M. 1980. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972 - 1977,
Edited by
Colin Gordon. New York: Pantheon Books
Foucault, Michel. 1979. "What is an author?" In Josue Hariri (ed), Textual Strategies:
Perspectives in
Poststructuralist 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 Theory
12(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
Society
11:121-141.
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.

Page 17
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." The
Insurgent 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.
Piaget, Jean. 1970. Structuralism. New York: Basic Books.
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 University
Press.
________. 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 Theory
and

Page 18
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: Stanford
University
Press.
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.
Collins, Randall. 1989. "Toward a neo-Meadian sociology of mind." Symbolic Interaction 12:1-
32.
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.
Dewey, John. 1922. Human Nature and Conduct. NY: Random House.
Felson, Richard B. 1985. “Reflected Appraisals and the Development of Self.” Social Psychology
Quarterly 48:71-78.
Fine, Gary Alan. 1993. The Sad Demise, Mysterious Disappearance, and Glorious Triumph of
Symbolic
Interactionism. Annual Review of Sociology 19:61-87.
Foote, Nelson N. 1951. “Identification as the Basis for a Theory of Motivation.” American
Sociological
Review 16:14-21.
Franks, David D. and Viktor Gecas. 1992. “Autonomy and Conformity in Cooley’s Self-theory:
The
looking-glass self and beyond.” Symbolic Interaction 15:49-68.
Giddens, Anthony. 1987. “Erving Goffman as a Systematic Social Theorist.” Pp. 109-139 in
Social
Theory and Modern Sociology. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Goffman, Erving. 1967. Interaction Ritual. NY: Pantheon Books.
Goffman, Erving. 1959. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. NY: Anchor Books.

Page 19
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.
Heise, David R. and Lisa Thomas. 1989. Predicting Impressions Created by Combinations of
Emotion
and Social Identity. Social Psychology Quarterly 52:141-148.
Helle, Horst J. and S. N. Eisenstadt (eds). 1985. Micro-Sociological Theory. Beverly Hills: Sage.
Heritage, John C. 1987. "Ethnomethodology," in Social Theory Today.
Ichiyama, Michael A. 1993. A Longitudinal Analysis of the Reflected Appraisal Process in Small
Group
Interaction. Social Psychology Quarterly 56:87-99.
Lewis, J. David. 1976. “The Classic American Pragmatists as Forerunners to Symbolic
Interactionism.
The Sociological Quarterly 17:347-359.
Lyng, Stephen. 1990. “Edgework: A social psychological analysis of voluntary risk taking.
American
Journal of Sociology 95:851-886.
Maines, David R. 1977. “Social Organization and Social Structure in Symbolic Interactionist
Thought.”
Annual Review of Sociology 3:235-259.
Maines, David R. 1989. “Repackaging Blumer: The Myth of Herbert Blumer’s Astructural Bias.”
Studies
in Symbolic Interaction 10:383-413.
Meltzer, Bernard M., John Petras, and Larry T. Reynolds. 1977. Symbolic Interactionism:
Genesis,
Varieties and Criticism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Musolf, Gil Richard. 1992. "Structure, institutions, power, and ideology: New directions in
Symbolic
Interactionism." The Sociological Quarterly 33:171-190.
Rawls, Anne Warfield. 1987. “The Interaction Order Sui Generis: Goffman’s Contribution to
Social
Theory.” Sociological Theory 5:136-149.
Rose, Arnold M. (Ed.) 1972. Human Behavior and Social Processes. London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul.
Scheff, Thomas J. 1990. Microsociology. Chicago: University of Chicago.
Schwalbe, Michael L. 1993. "Goffman Against Postmodernism: Emotion and the Reality of the
Self."
Symbolic Interaction 16:333-350.
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 Affect
Control
Theory. NY: Gordon and Breach.
Stone, Gregory P. 1981. “Appearance” and “Appearance and the Self: A Slightly Revised
Version.” Pp.
101-113 and 187-202 in Social Psychology through Symbolic Interaction, edited by G. P.
Stone and H. A. Farberman. NY: Wiley.

Page 20
Stryker, Sheldon. 1987. “The Vitalization of Symbolic Interactionism.” Social Psychology
Quarterly
50:83-94.
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.