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Readings in Social Theory

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Translated by Richard Nice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1984. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Translated by Richard Nice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Calhoun, Craig. 1992. Habermas and the Public Sphere. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Calhoun, Craig. 1993. “Civil Society and the Public Sphere.” Public Culture 5:267-280.

Collins, Randall. 1986. Weberian Sociological Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Durkheim, Emile. 1984. The Division of Labor in Society. Translated by W. D. Wells. New York: The Free Press.

Durkheim, Emile. 1995. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Translated by Karen E. Fields. New York: The Free Press.

Foucault, Michel. 1979. Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books.

Foucault, Michel. 1980. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977. New York: Pantheon Books.

Foucault, Michel. 1982. “The Subject and Power.” in Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, edited by H. L. Dreyfus and P. Rabinow. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Giddens, Anthony. 1984. The Constitution of Society. Cambridge: Polity.

Gramsci, Antonio. 1971. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. Translated by Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith. New York: International Publishers.

Habermas, Jurgen. 1962/1991. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Translated by Thomas Burger. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Harvey, David. 1982. The Limits to Capital. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Harvey, David. 1996. Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Harvey, David. 2000. Spaces of Hope. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Horkheimer, Max and Theodor W. Adorno. 1944/1993. Dialectic of Enlightenment. New York: Continuum.

Laclau, Ernesto and Chantal Mouffe. 1985. Hegemony and socialist strategy : towards a radical democratic politics. Translated by Winston Moore Paul Cammack. London: Verso.

Lemert, Charles. 1997. Postmodernism Is Not What You Think. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Lenin, V. I. 1932. State and Revolution. New York: International Publsihers.

Machiavelli, Niccolo. 1514/1961. The Prince. Translated by George Bull. Baltimore: Penguin Books.

Marx, Karl. 1852/1972. “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.” in The Marx-Engels Reader, edited by R. C. Tucker. New York: Norton.

Marx, Karl. 1867/1967. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume I: The Process of Capitalist Production. New York: International Publishers.

Marx, Karl. 1932/1972. “The German Ideology.” in The Marx-Engels Reader, edited by R. C. Tucker. New York: Norton.

Marx, Karl. 1973. Grundrisse. Translated by Martin Nicolaus. London: Penguin.

Mills, C. Wright. 1959. The Sociological Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Nash, Roderick. 1967/1982. Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. 1887/1989. On The Genealogy of Morals. Translated by Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale. New York: Vintage.

Sewell, William H., JR. 1996. “Historical events as transformation of structures: inventing revolution at the Bastille.” Theory and Society 25:841-881.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. 1840/1990. Democracy in America, vol. II. New York: Vintage Classics.

Trotsky, Leon. 1963. The Basic Writings of Trotsky. Translated by Irving Howe. New York: Vintage Books.

Weber, Max. 1905/1958. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Weber, Max. 1922/1978. Economy and Society. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Weber, Max. 1904, 1906, 1917-19/1949. Methodology of the Social Sciences. New York: The Free Press.

Weber, Max. 1922/1946. “Science as a Vocation.” Pp. 129-156 in From Max Weber, edited by H. Gerth and C. W. Mills. New York: Oxford University Press.

Weber, Max. 1952. Ancient Judaism. Translated by Hans Gerth and Don Martindale. New York: The Free Press

Young, Iris Marion. 1994. “Gender as Seriality: Thinking About Women as a Social Collective.” Signs 19:713-738.