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'' The Protestant Ethic And The Spirit Of Capitalism ''


Description: In '''The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism''', Weber puts forward a thesis that Puritan Ethic and Idea s had influenced the development of Capitalism . However religious devotion usually was accompanied by rejection of mundane affairs including economic pursuit. Why was that not the case with Protestantism? Weber addresses that Paradox in that work.

Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence


FUNCTIONALISM



CONFLICT THEORY



Der Rassenkampf (Struggle of the Races)



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The Forms of Capital



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INTERACTIONISM


SYMBOLIC-INTERACTIONISM



Interaction Ritual Chains

  • Collins, R.

  • Princeton University Press, 2004 .


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ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY


Granovetter, Mark. 1985. "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness", The American Journal of Sociology, 91:481-510.

Polanyi, Karl. 1944. The Great Transformation. Boston: Beacon.

Smelser, Neil and Richard Swedberg (eds.), The Handbook of Economic Sociology (2nd ed.. 2005).

Weber, Max. {Link without Title} 1978. Economy and Society. Berkeley: University of California Press.


ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY



Silent Spring



Description:
Environment and Society : The Enduring Conflict
by Allan Schnaiberg and Kenneth Alan Gould
New York : St. Martin's Press, c1994
ISBN 1930665008

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Schnaiberg and Gould demonstrate how our global economy requires increasing levels of economic expansion, which in turn requires increasing withdrawls for the natural environment


ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT


HUMAN ECOLOGY

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, First published 1949,


INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY



MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY



Perspectives in Medical Sociology

  • Brown, Phil, ed.

  • Waveland Press, 2000 .

  • Description: The third edition of ''Perspectives in Medical Sociology'' 's central theme is that health and illness cannot be understood simply by looking at biological phenomena and medical knowledge. Rather, it is necessary to bring to bear a variety of political, economic, and cultural forces. Editor Phil Brown takes this focus on largescale social structural factors and links it with the equally important microlevel approach that explores lay illness experience and the interaction between people and their health providers. In addition to retaining some of the classic works, the third edition offers new selections with modern perspectives on managed care, worker health and safety, the nursing profession, gender/femininity and health, experiences of illness and narrative understanding, and the effects of race and socioeconomic status on health. The 36 readings represent a broad range of research methods, data sources, and perspectives reflecting the diversity of material employed by medical sociologists.


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Medical Sociology

  • Cockerham, William C.

  • Prentice Hall, 2003

  • Description: The standard reference in the field—around the world—this best-selling introduction to medical sociology presents the most recent and relevant ideas, concepts, themes, issues, debates, and research findings at the cutting-edge of the field. It contains first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers; is based on a worldwide review of the literature; provides the most recent health statistics, data, and studies available; and identifies the most important trends and issues.


Importance:Perhaps the most widely used textbook on Medical Sociology.


Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge

  • Freidson E.

  • New York, Harper & Row, 1970 .


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Professional Dominance: The Social Structure of Medical Care

  • Freidson E.

  • New York, Atherton Press, 1970 .

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Professionalism: The Third Logic

  • Freidson E.

  • Chicago, IL; University of Chicago Press, 2001 .

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Ideas about illness : an intellectual history of medical sociology

  • Gerhardt, Uta E.

  • Basingstoke : Macmillan Education, 1989 .


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Foucault, Health and Medicine

  • Peterson, Alan and Robin Bunton, eds.

  • Routledge, 1997 .

  • Description: ''Foucault, Health and Medicine'' shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with Michel Foucault's ideas. The book's twelve chapters explore: Foucault's concept of discourse; the critique of the medicalization thesis; analysis of the body and the self; Foucault's concepts for feminist research on embodiment and gendered subjectivities; the application of Foucault's notion of governmentality to the analysis of health policy, health promotion and the consumption of health. Offering a state-of-the-art overview of Foucaludian scholarship in the area of health and medicine, this volume will provide a key reference for those working in the areas of medical sociology, health policy, health promotion and feminist studies.


Importance: A "state of the art" overview of Foucaldian scholarship in health and medicine. Assesses the profound impact of Foucault's work and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with his work.


Debating Biology: Sociological reflections on health, medicine and society

  • Williams, Simon, Lynda Birke and Gillian A. Bendelow, eds.

  • Routledge, 2003 .

  • Description: Text takes a look at the relationship between biology and society in the arena of health and medicine. Discusses the interplay between biological and social factors in the patterning of health and illness. Addresses the relationships between biology, science, and technology. For students and researchers in the social sciences.


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POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY



Political Sociology

  • Philo C. Wasburn

  • (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1982)


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States and Social Revolutions, 1979
Theda Skocpol


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RURAL SOCIOLOGY


SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE



Ideology and Utopia



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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge



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SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION



The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life



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The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion



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A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural



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SYSTEMS THEORY


SOCIOLOGY OF MARKETS


SOCIAL CHANGE


SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY


SOCIOLOGY OF DISASTER



New Species of Trouble: The Human Experience of Modern Disasters


Disasters caused by human beings have become a "new species of trouble" that afflicts persons and groups in particularly disruptive ways.

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URBAN SOCIOLOGY



The New Urban Sociology

  • Mark Gottdiener, Ray Hutchison

  • Westview Press, 2006 .

  • Description: Representing a major contribution to the field, authors Mark Gottdiener and Ray Hutchison present their breakthrough text in a new third edition, now completely revised and streamlined to provide students with a solid grounding on the topic. The book is organized around an integrated paradigm--the sociospatial perspective--which considers the role played by social factors such as race, class, gender, lifestyle, economics, culture, and politics on the development of metropolitan areas. New case studies throughout the text represent the most recent work in the field, as well as key terms and discussion questions at the end of each chapter. Additional updates include discussions of globalism, suburbanization, the multi-centered region as the new urban form, the new urbanism, and critical perspectives on planning and policy.


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COMPUTATIONAL SOCIOLOGY



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