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The Division of Labor in Society

(Émile Durkheim)
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The Rules of Sociological Method

(Émile Durkheim)
5

Manifest and Latent Functions

(Robert Merton)
4

Elementary Forms of Religious Life

(Émile Durkheim)
7

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

(Bruno Latour)
3

Suicide

(Émile Durkheim)
8

The Social Construction of Reality

(Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann)
6

Studies in Ethnomethodology

(Harold Garfinkel)
9

The German Ideology

(Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel)
12

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

(Karl Marx)
10

Manifesto of the Communist Party

(Karl Marx)
20

The Types of Legitimate Domination

(Max Weber)
13

The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System

(Immanuel Wallerstein)
16

Distinction

(Pierre Bourdieu)
11

Capital

(Karl Marx)
15

The Forms of Capital

(Pierre Bourdieu)
19

Basic Sociological Terms

(Max Weber)
14

Materials for an Explanatory Theory of the Network Society

(Manuel Castells)
18

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

(Max Weber)
17

Capitalism : The Factory of Fragmentation

(David Harvey)
26

Modernity and the Holocaust

(Zygmunt Bauman)
22

Class, Status, Party

(Max Weber)
23

One-Dimensional Man

(Herbert Marcuse)
24

Toward a Rational Society

(Jurgen Habermas)
25

Discipline and Punish

(Michel Foucault)
21

Bureaucracy

(Max Weber)
34

Self

(George Herbert Mead)
36

The Stranger

(Georg Simmel)
39

Gender Trouble

(Judith Butler)
40

Modernity and Self-Identity

(Anthony Giddens)
35

Metropolis and Mental Life

(Georg Simmel)
37

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

(Erving Goffman)
38

The History of Sexuality

(Michel Foucault)
27

The Souls of Black Folk

(W.E.B. Du Bois)
33

Black Feminist Thought

(Patricia Hill Collins)
32

The Conceptual Practices of Power

(Dorothy Smith)
30

Black Skin, White Masks

(Frantz Fanon)
31

Orientalism

(Edward Said)
28

The Second Sex

(Simone de Beauvoir)
29

Racial Formation in the United States

(Michael Omi and Howard Winant)