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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.
WHAT IS CRITICAL THINKING?
Defining
Critical Thinking
A
Brief History of Critical Thinking
The
Critical Mind is a Questioning Mind
Critical
Thinking: Basic Questions & Answers
E-TEXTS ON-LINE:
Alexis DeTocqueville's 'Democracy in America.'
Harriet Martineau's 'Society in America.'
Max Weber's 'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.'
Emile Durkheim's 'The Division of Labor in Society (selections).
Emile Durkheim: Introduction to His Works.
The
Complete Karl Marx Archive
Contemporary
Theory WEB READINGS (2006)
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.'
Michel Foucault Interview
1
Michel Foucault Interview
2
Feminism and Foucault
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)
SETTING THINGS IN CONTEXT
Date Timeline of Social Theory
American History and Industrialization
PBS American Industrialization Site
SOCIAL THEORISTS
Some
Great Sociologists with Bibliographies
Dead Sociologists'
Society
Trinity 'Exercising the Social Imagination' Portal
Sociological Theory: Classical
Critical
Theory and Post-Modern Thought
Women's Intellectual Contributions Site
Norbert
Elias and Process Sociology
Fred
Spier, 'Norbert Elias's The Civilizing Process'
Social
Movements
Post-Colonial Literature
Hegel's
'Philosophy of Right' (text)
