List of important publications in sociology
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This is a list of important publications in sociology, organized by field.
Some reasons why a particular publication might be regarded as important:
- Topic creator – A publication that created a new topic
- Breakthrough – A publication that changed scientific knowledge significantly
- Introduction – A publication that is a good introduction or survey of a topic
- Influence – A publication which has significantly influenced the world
- Latest and greatest – The current most advanced result in a topic
[edit] Foundations
[edit] The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Max Weber
- Die protestantische Ethik und der 'Geist' des Kapitalismus, 1904
- Online version
Description: In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber puts forward a thesis that Puritan ethic and ideas had influenced the development of capitalism. However religious devotion usually was accompanied by rejection of mundane affairs including economic pursuit. Why was that not the case with Protestantism? Weber addresses that paradox in that work.
Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence
[edit] Suicide
[edit] The Division of Labor
[edit] The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
[edit] 'Capital
- Karl Marx
- Das Kapital
[edit] Functionalism
[edit] Conflict theory
[edit] Der Rassenkampf (Struggle of the Races)
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[edit] The Forms of Capital
Description: distinguishes between economic capital, social capital and cultural capital
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[edit] Interactionism
[edit] Symbolic-interactionism
[edit] Interaction Ritual Chains
- Collins, R.
- Princeton University Press, 2004.
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[edit] Economic sociology
Granovetter, Mark. 1985. "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness", The American Journal of Sociology, 91:481-510.
Hirschman, Albert O. 1982. "Rival Interpretations of Market Society: Civilizing, Destructive, or Feeble?" Journal of Economic Literature. vol. 20(4):1463-84
Polanyi, Karl. 1944. The Great Transformation. Boston: Beacon.
Smelser, Neil and Richard Swedberg (eds.), The Handbook of Economic Sociology (2nd ed.. 2005).
Weber, Max. [1922] 1978. Economy and Society. Berkeley: University of California Press.
[edit] Environmental sociology
[edit] Silent Spring
Description: Environment and Society : The Enduring Conflict by Allan Schnaiberg and Kenneth Alan Gould New York : St. Martin's Press, c1994 ISBN 1-930665-00-8
Importance: Schnaiberg and Gould demonstrate how our global economy requires increasing levels of economic expansion, which in turn requires increasing withdrawls for the natural environment
[edit] Economic development
[edit] Human ecology
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, First published 1949,
[edit] Industrial sociology
Harry Braverman Labor and Monopoly Capital
Michael Burawoy Manufacturing Consent
William Kornblum Blue Collar
[edit] Medical sociology
[edit] The Social System
- Parsons, Talcott
- The Free Press, 1951.
Description: In a description of the patient's role in the doctor-patient relationship, Parsons coined the term the 'Sick Role' as opposed to the 'Social Role'.
Importance: Talcott Parsons is considered the father of Medical Sociology and this book is a classic textbook.
[edit] Ideas about illness : an intellectual history of medical sociology
- Gerhardt, Uta E.
- Basingstoke : Macmillan Education, 1989.
Description:Re-analyzes Parsons' work, and made the 'Sick Role' famous.
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[edit] Perspectives in Medical Sociology
- Brown, Phil, ed.
- Waveland Press, 2000.
Description: The third edition of Perspectives in Medical Sociology 's central theme is that health and illness cannot be understood simply by looking at biological phenomena and medical knowledge. Rather, it is necessary to bring to bear a variety of political, economic, and cultural forces. Editor Phil Brown takes this focus on largescale social structural factors and links it with the equally important microlevel approach that explores lay illness experience and the interaction between people and their health providers. In addition to retaining some of the classic works, the third edition offers new selections with modern perspectives on managed care, worker health and safety, the nursing profession, gender/femininity and health, experiences of illness and narrative understanding, and the effects of race and socioeconomic status on health. The 36 readings represent a broad range of research methods, data sources, and perspectives reflecting the diversity of material employed by medical sociologists.
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[edit] Medical Sociology
- Cockerham, William C.
- Prentice Hall, 2003
Description: The standard reference in the field—around the world—this best-selling introduction to medical sociology presents the most recent and relevant ideas, concepts, themes, issues, debates, and research findings at the cutting-edge of the field. It contains first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers; is based on a worldwide review of the literature; provides the most recent health statistics, data, and studies available; and identifies the most important trends and issues.
Importance:Perhaps the most widely used textbook on Medical Sociology.
[edit] Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge
- Freidson E.
- New York, Harper & Row, 1970.
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[edit] Professional Dominance: The Social Structure of Medical Care
- Freidson E.
- New York, Atherton Press, 1970.
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[edit] Professionalism: The Third Logic
- Freidson E.
- Chicago, IL; University of Chicago Press, 2001.
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[edit] Foucault, Health and Medicine
- Peterson, Alan and Robin Bunton, eds.
- Routledge, 1997.
Description: Foucault, Health and Medicine shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with Michel Foucault's ideas. The book's twelve chapters explore: Foucault's concept of discourse; the critique of the medicalization thesis; analysis of the body and the self; Foucault's concepts for feminist research on embodiment and gendered subjectivities; the application of Foucault's notion of governmentality to the analysis of health policy, health promotion and the consumption of health. Offering a state-of-the-art overview of Foucaludian scholarship in the area of health and medicine, this volume will provide a key reference for those working in the areas of medical sociology, health policy, health promotion and feminist studies.
Importance: A "state of the art" overview of Foucaldian scholarship in health and medicine. Assesses the profound impact of Foucault's work and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with his work.
[edit] Debating Biology: Sociological reflections on health, medicine and society
- Williams, Simon, Lynda Birke and Gillian A. Bendelow, eds.
- Routledge, 2003.
Description: Text takes a look at the relationship between biology and society in the arena of health and medicine. Discusses the interplay between biological and social factors in the patterning of health and illness. Addresses the relationships between biology, science, and technology. For students and researchers in the social sciences.
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[edit] Political sociology
[edit] Why Americans Don't Vote
- Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward
[edit] Who Rules America
- G. William Domhoff,
- (McGraw Hill, 2001)
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[edit] Power, State and Society
- W. Lawrence Neuman
- (McGraw Hill, 2005)
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[edit] An Introduction to Political Sociology
- Anthony M. Orum
- (Prentice Hall, 2000)
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[edit] Political Sociology
- Philo C. Wasburn
- (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1982)
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[edit] States and Social Revolutions
- Theda Skocpol
- (Cambridge University Press, 1979)
[edit] Chinese Social Stratification
- Li Yi. 2005. The Structure and Evolution of Chinese Social Stratification. University Press of America. ISBN 0-7618-3331-5
[edit] Program evaluation
[edit] Rural sociology
[edit] Sociology of knowledge
[edit] Ideology and Utopia
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[edit] The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
- Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
- New York, 1966.
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[edit] Sociology of religion
[edit] The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
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[edit] The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
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[edit] A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural
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[edit] Systems theory
Ackoff, R. (1981). Creating the corporate future. New York: Wiley.
Ackoff, R. (1978). The art of problem solving. New York: Wiley.
Allport, G. (1968). The open system in personality theory. In W. Buckley (Ed.), Modern systems research for the behavioral sciences (pp. 343-350). Chicago: Aldine.
Arnopoulos, P. (1993) Sociophysics: Chaos and Cosmos in Nature & Culture. New York. Nova Science
Augros, R., & Stanciu, G. (1987). The new biology. Discovering the wisdom in nature. Boulder: New Science Library.
Axelrod, P. (1984). The evolution of cooperation. New York: Basic Books.
Banathy, B. ( ) Systems Design of Education. Englewood Cliffs: Educational Technology Publications The grand master himself says it enough...
Banathy, B. ( ) A Systems View of Education. Englewood Cliffs: Educational Technology Publications.
Banathy, B (1996) Designing Social Systems in a Changing World New York Plenum
Barrow, J. (1991) Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation. New York, Oxford University Press Excellent introduction to the quest for a unifyin principle.
Bateson, G. (1972). Steps to an ecology of mind. New York: Ballantine.
Bateson, G. (1979). Mind and nature: A necessary unity. New York: Ballantine
Bateson, G., & Bateson, M.C. (1987). Angels fear. New York: Macmillan
Beer, S. Beyond Dispute, Wiley, 1994).
Berman, M (1982). The reenchantment of the world. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
von Bertalanffy, L. (1968). General System Theory. Foundations, development, applications. New York: George Braziller. A seminal book that establishes systems theory as a science
Briggs, J.P., & Peat, F.D. (1989). Turbulent mirror. New York: Harper & Row.
Briggs, J.P., & Peat, F.D. (1984). Looking glass universe. The emerging science of wholeness. New York: Touchstone.
Bushev, M. (1994) Synergetics: Chaos, Order, Self-Organization. London: World Scientific
Caley, M.T. & Sawada, D. (Eds.) (1994). Mindscapes. The epistemology of Magoroh Maruyama. New York: Gordon & Breach.
Capra, F. (1996)The Web of Life An introduction to the new physics in terms of everyday reality
Capra, F. (1980). The turning point. New York: Bantam.
Casti J. (1994) Complexification New York, Harper-Collins
Checkland, P. (1981). Systems thinking, Systems practice. New York: Wiley.
Churchman, C.W. (1971). The design of inquiring systems. New York: Basic Books.
Churchman, C.W. (1968). The systems approach. New York: Laurel.
Ceruti, M. (1986). Il vincolo e la possibilita. [Constraint and possibility] Milano: Feltrinelli. [Eng. trans. 1994, Constraints and possibilities. The evolution of knowledge and knowledge of evolution. New York: Gordon & Breach.]
Cohen, J. Stewart, I. (1994) The Collapse of Chaos. New York Viking the search for emergence
Corning, P. 1983) The Synergism Hupothesis: A Theory of Progressive Evolution. New York: McGRaw Hill The book on Synergy
Davies, P. (1988). The Cosmic Blueprint. New discoveries in nature's creative ability to order the universe. New York: Touchstone.
Eisler, R. (1987). The chalice and the blade. San Francisco: Harper & Row.
Emery, F. E. (Ed.). (1969). Systems thinking: Selected readings. London: Penguin Books.
Emery, M. (1982). Searching: In new ways, for new directions, in new times. Canberra: Australian National University Press.
Engelberg, J. (1994) The Nature of Integrative Study. Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press.
Gleick, J. (1987). Chaos. New York: Viking.
Goerner, S. M. (1994). Chaos and the evolving ecological universe. New York: Gordon & Breach.
Guidano,V.F. (1987). Complexity of the self. A developmental approach to psychopathology and therapy. New York: Guilford.
Habermas, J. (1979). Communication and the evolution of society. Boston: Beacon press.
Hampden-Turner, C. (1990). Charting corporate culture. New York: Addison Wesley.
Hampden-Turner, C. (1990). Charting the corporate mind. New York: Free Press.
Hampden-Turner, C. (1981). Maps of the mind. New York: Collier.
Jantsch,E. (1980). The self organizing universe. New York: Pergamon. Revered by the masters
Jantsch,E. (1975). Design for evolution. Self-organization and planning in the life of human systems. New York: George Braziller.
Koestler,A. (1979). Janus: A summing up. London: Picador.
Krippner, S. Ruttenber, A.J. Engelman, S.R. & Granger, D.L. (1985). Towards the application of General Systems Theory in humanistic psychology. Systems Research, 2, 105-115.
Laszlo, E. (1996) The Whispering Pond
Laszlo, E. (1995). The Interconnected Universe. New Jersy, World Scientific. A small book, a great idea
Laszlo, E. (1993). The creative cosmos. A unified science of matter, life, and mind. Edinburgh: Floris Books.
Laszlo, E. (1987). Evolution: The grand synthesis. Boston: New Science Library.
Laszlo,E. (1972a). The systems view of the world. The natural philosophy of the new developments in the sciences. New York: George Brazillier.
Laszlo,E. (1972b). Introduction to systems philosophy. Toward a new paradigm of contemporary thought. San Francisco: Harper.
Lemkow, A. (1995) The wholeness Principle: Dynamics of Unity Within Science, Religion & Society. Quest Books, Wheaton. Perhaps the most innclusive book written on new knowledge
Loye, D., & Eisler, R. (1987). Chaos and transformation: implications of nonequilibrium theory for social science and society. Behavioral Science, 32 53-65.
Luhmann, N. (1990). Sistemi sociali. Fondamenti di una teoria generale. [Social systems. Foundations of a general theory.] Il Mulino, Bologna.
Lyotard, J-F. (1979). The postmodern condition: A report on knowledge. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Maruyama,M. (1974). Paradigmatology and its applications to cross-disciplinary, cross-professional and cross-cultural-communication. Dialectica, 28, 135-196.
Miller, J.G. 1995[1978]. Living Systems. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado.
Montuori, A. & Conti, I. (1993). From power to partnership. San Francisco: Harper Collins.
Montuori, A. (1989). Evolutionary competence: Creating the future. Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben.
Morin, E. (1992). Method. Toward a study of humankind. Volume 1: The nature of nature. New York: Peter Lang.
Ogilvy, J. (1977). Many dimensional man. New York: Harper.
Oliga, J.C. (1988). Methodological foundations of systems methodologies. Systems Practice, 1, 87-112.
Popper, K., Eccles, J. (1981) The Self and its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism.New York, Springer
Sahtouris, E. (1989). Gaia. The human journey from Chaos to Cosmos. New York: Pocket.
Sauk, J. (1983). The Anatomy of Reality. a stab at the principle of unification
Senge, P. (1990). The Fifth Discipline. The art and practice of the learning organization. New York: Doubleday.
Greenstein, G. (1988) The Symbiotic Universe. New York, Morrow.
Stacey, R. (1992). Managing the unknowable. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Smuts, J.C, (1926) Holism and Evolution An early investigator of wholes
Watzlawick, P. (Ed.). (1983). The Invented Reality. New York: Norton.
Wheatley, M. (1992). Leadership and the New Science. San Francisco: Berrett Koehler.
Wilber, K. (1977) The Spectrum of Consciousness. Wheaton. Quest Books
Wilber, K. (1977) The Spectrum of consciousness, Quest Books. 2nd edition in 1993. Wilber, K. (1979)
No boundary, New Science Library A popularized guide giving an overview of the development process and various types of therapies.
Wilber, K. (1980) The Atman project, Wheaton: The Theosophical Publishing House. Evolution of consciousness in the individual biography. A very rich book integrating many strands of psychological theory.
Wilber, K. (1981) Up from Eden, Boston: Shambala Publications. Evolution of consciousness in the history of humanity. Draws on psychology, history, anthropology, religion, etc.
Wilber, K. (1983) A sociable God, McGraw-Hill. Sociology of religion.
Wilber, K. (1983) Eye to Eye. The Quest for the New Paradigm, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday. Revised edition 1989 by Shambala A book on science and knowledge from a transpersonal perspective.
Wilber; K. (1995) Sex, Ecology, Spirituality. The Spirit of Evolution, Boston & London: Shambala Publications. This is Grand Theory if there ever was one. . . Philosophy, cosmology, spirituality, gender issues, ecology, whatever you want. 800 pages.
Wilber, K (1996) A brief history of everything, Shambala Publications A very accessible "summary" of Sex, Ecology, Spirituality.
Wiener, N. (1967). The human use of human beings. Cybernetics and Society. New York: Avon.
[edit] Social change
[edit] Social demography
[edit] Sociology of disaster
[edit] Communicating Risk and Uncertainty: Science, Technology, and Disasters at the Crossroads
- Havidan Rodríguez, Walter Diaz, Jenniffer Santos and Benigno Aguirre
In Quarantelli and Dynes, (eds.), Handbook of Disaster Research
- New York: Springer forthcomming, August, 2006
[edit] New Species of Trouble: The Human Experience of Modern Disasters
- Kai Erikson
- New York, 1994.
Description: Disasters caused by human beings have become a "new species of trouble" that afflicts persons and groups in particularly disruptive ways.
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[edit] Urban sociology
[edit] The New Urban Sociology
- Mark Gottdiener, Ray Hutchison
- Westview Press, 2006.
Description: Representing a major contribution to the field, authors Mark Gottdiener and Ray Hutchison present their breakthrough text in a new third edition, now completely revised and streamlined to provide students with a solid grounding on the topic. The book is organized around an integrated paradigm--the sociospatial perspective--which considers the role played by social factors such as race, class, gender, lifestyle, economics, culture, and politics on the development of metropolitan areas. New case studies throughout the text represent the most recent work in the field, as well as key terms and discussion questions at the end of each chapter. Additional updates include discussions of globalism, suburbanization, the multi-centered region as the new urban form, the new urbanism, and critical perspectives on planning and policy.
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