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Basic Sociological Terms

(Max Weber)
33

Black Feminist Thought

(Patricia Hill Collins)
30

Black Skin, White Masks

(Frantz Fanon)
21

Bureaucracy

(Max Weber)
11

Capital

(Karl Marx)
17

Capitalism : The Factory of Fragmentation

(David Harvey)
22

Class, Status, Party

(Max Weber)
25

Discipline and Punish

(Michel Foucault)
16

Distinction

(Pierre Bourdieu)
12

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

(Karl Marx)
4

Elementary Forms of Religious Life

(Émile Durkheim)
39

Gender Trouble

(Judith Butler)
5

Manifest and Latent Functions

(Robert Merton)
10

Manifesto of the Communist Party

(Karl Marx)
14

Materials for an Explanatory Theory of the Network Society

(Manuel Castells)
35

Metropolis and Mental Life

(Georg Simmel)
7

Mixing Humans and Non-Humans: The Sociology of a Door-Closer

(Bruno Latour)
40

Modernity and Self-Identity

(Anthony Giddens)
26

Modernity and the Holocaust

(Zygmunt Bauman)
23

One-Dimensional Man

(Herbert Marcuse)
31

Orientalism

(Edward Said)
29

Racial Formation in the United States

(Michael Omi and Howard Winant)
34

Self

(George Herbert Mead)
6

Studies in Ethnomethodology

(Harold Garfinkel)
3

Suicide

(Émile Durkheim)
32

The Conceptual Practices of Power

(Dorothy Smith)
2

The Division of Labor in Society

(Émile Durkheim)
15

The Forms of Capital

(Pierre Bourdieu)
9

The German Ideology

(Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel)
38

The History of Sexuality

(Michel Foucault)
37

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

(Erving Goffman)
18

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

(Max Weber)
13

The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System

(Immanuel Wallerstein)
1

The Rules of Sociological Method

(Émile Durkheim)
28

The Second Sex

(Simone de Beauvoir)
8

The Social Construction of Reality

(Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann)
27

The Souls of Black Folk

(W.E.B. Du Bois)
36

The Stranger

(Georg Simmel)
20

The Types of Legitimate Domination

(Max Weber)
24

Toward a Rational Society

(Jurgen Habermas)