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The Resources Page for Social Thought and Sociological Theory
C. Wright Mills, in the good
old days of sociology,
when faculty could drive
their bikes right into their offices.
A collection of resources
that helps reveal not only the major concepts of social philosophers and sociological
theorists
who shaped sociology, but also the economic, historical, cultural
and technological conditions that have affected
the manner in which we view
and understand the social.
It is the goal of this web portal to facilitate and
encourage a 'process' view of theory that,
rather than placing concepts in opposition
to one another, shows the conditions to which social theorists were responding.
SETTING THINGS IN CONTEXT
Date Timeline of Social Theory
Europe Timeline
The Renaissance
The Enlightenment (click on 'contents' after page opens
PBS American Industrialization Site
ELECTRONIC WEBTEXTS
Alexis DeTocqueville's 'Democracy in America.'
Harriet Martineau's 'Society in America.'
Max Weber's 'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.'
The
Complete Karl Marx Archive
Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right' (text)
Contemporary
Theory WEB READINGS (2010)
Benet Davetian, 'The Rise of the Oppositional
Self
and the Therapeutic Society'
Douglas
Kellner, 'Critical Theory and the Crisis of Social Theory'
Anthony Giddens:
'Modernity, post-modernity and the post-traditional'
Anthony Giddens: 'Modernity
and Self Identity.'
Anthony Giddens, 'The Reflexive
Project of the Self.'
Anthony
Giddens, 'Lifestyles.'
Introduction to Foucault
Foucault Interview
Benet
Davetian, 'Foucault on Govern-mentality'
FROM PUNISHMENT TO DISCIPLINARY
SURVEILLANCE
The Birth of the Modern Prison
A
summary of Postmodernism
What
is a 'Postmodern Sociology'?
Jacques
Derrida
Video
of Derrida's Lecture on 'Friendship'
at The University of Sussex (1999)
SOCIAL THEORISTS
Trinity 'Exercising the Social Imagination' Portal
Sociological Theory: Classical
Critical Theory and Post-Modern Thought
Women's Intellectual Contributions Site
Social
Movements
Post-Colonial Literature
Dr. Benet Davetian is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the
University of Prince Edward Island. He holds a doctorate from the University of Sussex.
He is the author of CIVILITY - A CULTURAL HISTORY
(University of Toronto Press, 2009; 600 pages); the award-winning book THE SEVENTH CIRCLE
and numerous articles on social theory and social change. He is listed in Canada's Who's Who for his contributions
to the social sciences and to literature.
