MLS 601 Social Science Texts

Texts:

Required

Kuhn, T. S. (1996) The structure of scientific revolutions. Third edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Hoover, K. R. and Donovan, T. (2003) The elements of social scientific thinking. Eighth edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

[Student’s choice: one additional approved book in a field within Social Science. This book should represent a significant contribution to theory and/or method in the social sciences in general, or in a sub-discipline.]

[Student’s choice: about 10 scholarly articles]

Recommended Texts:

Bell, D. (1973). The coming of post-industrial society; a venture in social forecasting. New York: Basic Books.

Bellah, R. N. et. al. (1985). Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. New York: Harper & Row.

Bernard, J. (1987). The Female World from a Global Perspective. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory (Blackwell Companions to Social Theory) Bryan S. Turner, Bryan Turner

Bourdieu, P. & Wacquant, J.D. (1992) An invitation to reflexive sociology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Chafetz, J. Saltzman (1984). Sex and Advantage: A Comparative, Macro-Structural Theory of Sex Stratification. Towata, NJ: Rowan & Allanheld.

Chagnon, N.A. (1977) Yanamamo, the fierce people. 2^nd ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Chodorow, N. (1978). The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender. Berkely: University of California Press.

Cohen, J. (1995). How many people can the Earth support? New York: WW Norton.

Durkheim, E. (1966). The rules of sociological method. New York: Free Press.

() Elementary Forms Of The Religious Life. Translated By Karen E. Fields

(1951). Suicide, a study in sociology. translated by John A. Spaulding and George Simpson. Glencoe, Ill., Free Press.

Fromm, E. (1941). Escape from Freedom. New York: Avon.

Geertz, C. (1964). The religion of Java.

(1973). The interpretation of cultures : selected essays. New York: Basic Books.
(1983) Local knowledge : further essays in interpretive anthropology. New York : Basic Books.

Gerth, H.H. & C. Wright Mills, eds. (1958). From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. New York: OUP.

Gouldner, A.W. () The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life [Paperback] Erving Goffman $9.56 The coming crisis of western sociology. New York: Basic Books.

Huntington, S. P. (1996). The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Lemert C C. (1998) Editor. Social Theory : The Multicultural and Classic Readings by Westview Press; 2nd edition, ISBN: 0813334721 available used for around $22 or new at $49.

Malthus, T.R. (1914). An essay on population. New York: E.P. Dutton.

Mannheim, K. (1936). Ideology and Utopia. New York: Harcourt, Brace 7 World.

Mead, M. (1953). Coming of age in Samoa: a psychological study of primitive youth for Western civilization. Forward by Franz Boaz. New York: Modern Library.

Mich, M. Krier (1998). Catholic Social Teaching and Movements. Mystic, CT:Twenty-Third Publications.

Mills, C. W. (1959). The Sociological Imagination. London: OUP.
Nigel, G. and Kalus G. Troitzsch Simulation for the social scientist. Buckingham; Philadelphia, Pa.: Open University Press, 1999

Popper, K (1957).The poverty of historicism London: Routledge and Kegan Paul [1957]

Said, E. (1994) Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books.

(1993). Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage Books.

Taylor, C (2004). Modern social imaginaries. Durham: Duke University Press.

(1989). Sources of the self : the making of the modern identity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
(1985). Human agency and language. Philosophical papers vol. 1. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press.

(1985). Philosophy and the human sciences. Philosophical papers vol. 2. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press.
(1967) The explanation of behaviour. London: Routledge & K. Paul; New York: Humanities Press.

Toennies, F. (1957). Community and Society [Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft]. New York: Harper Torchbook.

Tucker, R. C. editor (1978) The Marx-Engels Reader. 2nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton,

Turner, B. () The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory (Blackwell Companions to Social Theory).

Weber, Max () The Protestant Ethic and the 'Spirit' of Capitalism and Other Writings (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics).
Warren C.A.B., and Jennifer Kay Hackney (2000) Gender issues in ethnography. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.
Winch, P. (1958) The idea of a social science and its relation to philosophy. London: Routledge & Paul; New York : Humanities Press.
Yates, S. (2004) Doing social science research. London: Thousand Oaks; Sage: Open University.

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