Social Theory Re-Wired

"Longhofer and Winchester have produced the best social theory textbook on the market today. Comprehensive, clever, and well-organized, this new 3rd edition provides instructors with plenty of resources to engage undergraduate students both online and in the classroom. Highly recommended!" -- Manfred B. Steger, Professor of Sociology, University of Hawai'i-Manoa and author of What Is Global Studies? (Routledge, 2017). "No other social theory reader brings together the essential excerpts of the classics with this diversity of contemporary extensions in quite the same way as Social Theory Re-wired. Students appreciate the accessible examples of theory applied to social problems. The online learning resources offer valuable study support. By the semesters end, my students are knowledgeable of the canon and skilled in constructing their own evidence-based arguments." -- Selina Gallo-Cruz, Associate Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University "Social Theory Re-wired, by Winchester and Longhofer, provides a well-selected sample of the classics while also encouraging instructors and students to expand their understanding of what theory (and sociology) can be. Their section introductions are accessible and encourage the use of the readings to better understand the complexities of the contemporary momenteverything from social media re-shaping the way we dance to viruses re-shaping society. This reader will help breathe new life into my Sociological Theory course." -- Kyle Green, Associate Professor of Sociology, SUNY, Brockport

Wesley Longhofer is Associate Professor of Organization and Management at Emory University. Daniel Winchester is Associate Professor of Sociology at Purdue University

Preface I. EMERGENCE THROUGH CONVERGENCE: The Puzzles of Social Order Introductory Essay: "The Virus that Changed Our World" Classical Connections Emile Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method Emile Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Society Emile Durkheim, Suicide Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life Contemporary Extensions Harold Garfinkel, Studies in Ethnomethodology Bruno Latour, Mixing Humans and Nonhumans Together: The Sociology of a Door-Closer Mark Granovetter, The Strength of Weak Ties Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality System Update Manuel Castells, "Materials for an Exploratory Theory of the Network Society" II. NETWORKS OF CAPITAL: Dimensions of Global Capitalism Introductory Essay: "The Redditors Who Took Down a Giant (Sort Of)" Classical Connections Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party Karl Marx, Capital Karl Marx, "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844" Contemporary Extensions Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System" Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism Pierre Bourdieu, "The Forms of Capital" Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum, Cultures of Servitude System Update Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism III. PATHWAY TO MELTDOWN: Theorizing the Dark Side of Modernity Introductory Essay: "Do You Ever Get the Feeling Youre Being Watched?" Classical Connections Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Max Weber, "Basic Sociological Terms" Max Weber, "The Types of Legitimate Domination" Max Weber, "Bureaucracy" Contemporary Extensions Herbert Marcuse, OneDimensional Man Jurgen Habermas, Toward a Rational Society Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust System Update David Graeber, "Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit" IV. SHIFTING THE PARADIGM: Excluded Voices, Alternative Knowledges Introductory Essay: Classical Connections W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex Contemporary Extensions Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks Edward Said, Orientalism Dorothy Smith, The Conceptual Practices of Power Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought Julian Go, Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory System Update Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology V. RISE OF THE AVATAR: Connecting Self and Society Introductory Essay: "Through the Looking Glass of TikTok" Classical Connections George Herbert Mead, "Self" Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life" Georg Simmel, "The Stranger" Contemporary Extensions Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Judith Butler, Gender Trouble Stuart Hall, "Cultural Identity and Diaspora" Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity System Update Sherry Turkle, "Always-On/Always-On-You: The Tethered Self" Glossary Index