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The Souls of Black Folk

(W.E.B. Du Bois)
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The Second Sex

(Simone de Beauvoir)
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Racial Formation in the United States

(Michael Omi and Howard Winant)
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Black Skin, White Masks

(Frantz Fanon)
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Orientalism

(Edward Said)
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The Conceptual Practices of Power

(Dorothy Smith)
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Black Feminist Thought

(Patricia Hill Collins)
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Self

(George Herbert Mead)
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Metropolis and Mental Life

(Georg Simmel)
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The Stranger

(Georg Simmel)
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

(Erving Goffman)
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The History of Sexuality

(Michel Foucault)
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Gender Trouble

(Judith Butler)
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Modernity and Self-Identity

(Anthony Giddens)
21

Bureaucracy

(Max Weber)
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Class, Status, Party

(Max Weber)
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Modernity and the Holocaust

(Zygmunt Bauman)
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One-Dimensional Man

(Herbert Marcuse)
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Toward a Rational Society

(Jurgen Habermas)
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Discipline and Punish

(Michel Foucault)
9

The German Ideology

(Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel)
10

Manifesto of the Communist Party

(Karl Marx)
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Capital

(Karl Marx)
12

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

(Karl Marx)
13

The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System

(Immanuel Wallerstein)
14

Materials for an Explanatory Theory of the Network Society

(Manuel Castells)
15

The Forms of Capital

(Pierre Bourdieu)
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Distinction

(Pierre Bourdieu)
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Capitalism : The Factory of Fragmentation

(David Harvey)
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

(Max Weber)
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Basic Sociological Terms

(Max Weber)
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The Types of Legitimate Domination

(Max Weber)
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The Rules of Sociological Method

(Émile Durkheim)
2

The Division of Labor in Society

(Émile Durkheim)
3

Suicide

(Émile Durkheim)
4

Elementary Forms of Religious Life

(Émile Durkheim)
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Manifest and Latent Functions

(Robert Merton)
6

Studies in Ethnomethodology

(Harold Garfinkel)
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Mixing Humans and Non-Humans: The Sociology of a Door-Closer

(Bruno Latour)
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The Social Construction of Reality

(Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann)