• Marx on Refication • Lukács on Reficatino • Gramsci on Hegemony • Horkheimer and Adorno on Culture Industry • Habermas on Communicative Action and Public Sphere
• Parsons: Functional Imperatives , Structure of the General Action System and Pattern Variables • Merton: Clarifying functional analysis, Dysfunctions, and Manifest and Latent functions
• Schutz’s Phenomenological Sociology • Peter Berger and Luckmann: Sociology of Knowledge in Phenomenological Perspective • Bourdieu on Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology • Garfinkel: Ethnomethodology
• Cooley: Looking-glass self and social self • Thomas: the definition of the situation • Mead: play, game and the generalized other • References for Erving Goffman
Enlightenment A European cultural movement that reached its height in the 18th century but which still resonates today. Enlightenment theories about economics and philosophy still widely held today, have provided the basis for numerous critiques from numerous critics
An introduction to Western Social Theory e l.The significance of studying western social theory e1. 1 The developing tendency of social science =1. 2 The sociology's researching target 3.1.3 The independence of sociology
a Positivism / Anti-positivism Chapter one Auguste comte the law of human progress the theological---the metaphysical--- the positive social statics and social dynamics