The sociology book

Foundations of sociology. A physical defeat has never marked the end of a nation / Ibn Khaldun

Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarreled, in troops and companies / Adam Ferguson

Science can be used to build a better world / Auguste Comte

The Declaration of Independence bears no relation to half the human race / Harriet Martineau

The fall of the bourgeoisie and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable / Karl Marx

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft / Ferdinand Tönnies

Society, like the human body, has interrelated parts, needs, and functions / Émile Durkheim

The iron cage of rationality / Max Weber

Many personal troubles must be understood in terms of public issues / Charles Wright Mills

Pay to the most commonplace activities the attention accorded extraordinary events / Harold Garfinkel

Where there is power there is resistance / Michel Foucault

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original / Judith Butler

Social inequalities. I broadly accuse the bourgeoisie of social murder / Friedrich Engels

The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line / W.E.B. DuBois

The poor are excluded from the ordinary living patterns, customs, and activities of life / Peter Townsend

There ain't no black in the Union Jack / Paul Gilroy

A sense of one's place / Pierre Bourdieu

The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined / Edward Said

The ghetto is where the black people live / Elijah Anderson

The tools of freedom become the sources of indignity / Richard Sennett

Men's interest in patriarchy is condensed in hegemonic masculinity / R.W. Connell

White women have been complicit in this imperialist, white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy / Bell Hooks

The concept of "patriarch" is indispensable for an analysis of gender inequality / Sylvia Walby

Modern living. Strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type / Georg Simmel

The freedom to remake our cities and ourselves / Henri Lefebvre

There must be eyes on the street / Jane Jacobs

Only communication can communicate / Niklas Luhmann

Society should articulate what is good / Amitai Etzioni

McDonaldization affects virtually every aspect of society / George Ritzer

The bonds of our communities have withered / Robert D. Putnam

Disneyization replaces mundane blandness with spectacular experiences / Alan Bryman

Living in a loft is like living in a showcase / Sharon Zukin

Living in a global world. Abandon all hope of totality, you who enter the world of fluid modernity / Zygmunt Bauman

The modern world-system / Immanuel Wallerstein

Global issues, local perspective / Roland Robertson

Climate change is a back-of-the-mind issue / Anthony Gidens

No social justice without global cognitive justice / Boaventura de Sousa Santos

The unleashing of productive capacity by the power of the mind / Manuel Castells

We are living in a world that is beyond controllability / Ulrich Beck

It sometimes seems as if the whole world is on the move / John Urry

Nations can be imagined and constructed with relatively little historical straw / David McCrone

Global cities are strategic sites for new types of operations / Saskia Sassen

Different societies appropriate the materials of modernity differently / Arjun Appadurai

Processes of change have altered the relations between peoples and communities / David Held

Culture and identity. The "I" and the "me" / G.H. Mead

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned / Antonio Gramsci

The civilizing process is constantly moving "forward" / Norbert Elias

Mass culture reinforces political repression / Herbert Marcuse

The danger of the future is that men may become robots / Erich Fromm

Culture is ordinary / Raymond Williams

Stigma refers to an attribute that is deeply discrediting / Erving Goffman

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning / Jean Baudrillard

Modern identities are being decentered / Stuart Hall

All communities are imagined / Benedict Anderson

Throughout the world, culture has been doggedly pushing itself center stage / Jeffrey Alexander

Work and consumerism. Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure / Thorstein Veblen

The Puritan wanted to work in a calling

we are forced to do so /

Max Weber

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination / Daniel Bell

The more sophisticated machines become, the less skill the worker has / Harry Braverman

Automation increases the worker's control over his work process / Robert Blauner

The Romantic ethic promotes the spirit of consumerism / Colin Campbell

In processing people, the product is a state of mind / Arlie Russell Hochschild

Spontaneous consent combines with coercion / Michael Burawoy

Things make us just as much as we make things / Daniel Miller

Feminization has had only a modest impact on reducing gender inequalities / Teri Lynn Caraway

The role of institutions. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature / Karl Marx

The iron law of oligarchy / Robert Michels

Healthy people need no bureaucracy to mate, give birth, and die / Ivan Illich

Some commit crimes because they are responding to a social situation / Robert K. Merton

Total institutions strip people of their support systems and their sense of self / Erving Goffman

Government is the right disposition of things / Michel Foucault

Religion has lost its plausibility and social significance / Bryan Wilson

Our identity and behavior are determined by how we are described and classified / Howard S. Becker

Economic crisis is immediately transformed into social crisis / Jürgen Habermas

Schooling has been at once something done to the poor and for the poor / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

Societies are subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic / Stanley Cohen

The time of the tribes / Michel Maffesoli

How working-class kids get working-class jobs / Paul Willis

Families and intimacies. Differences between the sexes are cultural creations / Margaret Mead

Families are factories that produce human personalities / Talcott Parsons

Western man has become a confessing animal / Michel Foucault

Heterosexuality must be recognized and studied as an institution / Adrienne Rich

Western family arrangements are diverse, fluid, and unresolved / Judith Stacey

The marriage contract is a work contract / Christine Delphy

Housework is directly opposed to self-actualization / Ann Oakley

When love finally wins it has to face all kinds of defeat / Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

Sexuality is as much about beliefs and ideologies as about the physical body / Jeffrey Weeks

Queer theory questions the very grounds of identity / Steven Seidman

Glossary.

Foundations of sociology : A physical defeat has never marked the end of a nation / Ibn Khaldun

Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarreled, in troops and companies / Adam Ferguson

Science can be used to build a better world / Auguste Comte

Declaration of Independence bears no relation to half the human race / Harriet Martineau

Fall of the bourgeoisie and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable / Karl Marx

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft / Ferdinand Tönnies

Society, like the human body, has interrelated parts, needs, and functions / Émile Durkheim

Iron cage of rationality / Max Weber

Many personal troubles must be understood in terms of public issues / Charles Wright Mills

Pay to the most commonplace activities the attention accorded extraordinary events / Harold Garfinkel

Where there is power there is resistance / Michel Foucault

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original / Judith Butler

Social inequalities : I broadly accuse the bourgeoisie of social murder / Friedrich Engels

Problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line / W.E.B. DuBois

Poor are excluded from the ordinary living patterns, customs, and activities of life / Peter Townsend

There ain't no black in the Union Jack / Paul Gilroy

A sense of one's place / Pierre Bourdieu

Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined / Edward Said

Ghetto is where the black people live / Elijah Anderson

Tools of freedom become the sources of indignity / Richard Sennett

Men's interest in patriarchy is condensed in hegemonic masculinity / R.W. Connell

White women have been complicit in this imperialist, white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy / bell hooks

Concept of "patriarch" is indispensable for an analysis of gender inequality / Sylvia Walby

Modern living : Strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type / Georg Simmel

Freedom to remake our cities and ourselves / Henri Lefebvre

There must be eyes on the street / Jane Jacobs

Only communication can communicate / Niklas Luhmann

Society should articulate what is good / Amitai Etzioni

McDonaldization affects virtually every aspect of society / George Ritzer

Bonds of our communities have withered / Robert D. Putnam

Disneyization replaces mundane blandness with spectacular experiences / Alan Bryman

Living in a loft is like living in a showcase / Sharon Zukin

Living in a global world : Abandon all hope of totality, you who enter the world of fluid modernity / Zygmunt Bauman

Modern world-system / Immanuel Wallerstein

Global issues, local perspective / Roland Robertson

Climate change is a back-of-the-mind issue / Anthony Gidens

No social justice without global cognitive justice / Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Unleashing of productive capacity by the power of the mind / Manuel Castells

We are living in a world that is beyond controllability / Ulrich Beck

It sometimes seems as if the whole world is on the move / John Urry

Nations can be imagined and constructed with relatively little historical straw / David McCrone

Global cities are strategic sites for new types of operations / Saskia Sassen

Different societies appropriate the materials of modernity differently / Arjun Appadurai

Processes of change have altered the relations between peoples and communities / David Held.

Culture and identity : "I" and the "me" / G.H. Mead

Challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned / Antonio Gramsci

Civilizing process is constantly moving "forward" / Norbert Elias

Mass culture reinforces political repression / Herbert Marcuse

Danger of the future is that men may become robots / Erich Fromm

Culture is ordinary / Raymond Williams

Stigma refers to an attribute that is deeply discrediting / Erving Goffman

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning / Jean Baudrillard

Modern identities are being decentered / Stuart Hall

All communities are imagined / Benedict Anderson

Throughout the world, culture has been doggedly pushing itself center stage / Jeffrey Alexander

Work and consumerism : Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure / Thorstein Veblen

Puritan wanted to work in a calling: we are forced to do so / Max Weber

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination / Daniel Bell

More sophisticated machines become, the less skill the worker has / Harry Braverman

Automation increases the worker's control over his work process / Robert Blauner

Romantic ethic promotes the spirit of consumerism / Colin Campbell

In processing people, the product is a state of mind / Arlie Russell Hochschild

Spontaneous consent combines with coercion / Michael Burawoy

Things make us just as much as we make things / Daniel Miller

Feminization has had only a modest impact on reducing gender inequalities / Teri Lynn Caraway

Role of institutions : Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature / Karl Marx

Iron law of oligarchy / Robert Michels

Healthy people need no bureaucracy to mate, give birth, and die / Ivan Illich

Some commit crimes because they are responding to a social situation / Robert K. Merton

Total institutions strip people of their support systems and their sense of self / Erving Goffman

Government is the right disposition of things / Michel Foucault

Religion has lost its plausibility and social significance / Bryan Wilson

Our identity and behavior are determined by how we are described and classified / Howard S. Becker

Economic crisis is immediately transformed into social crisis / Jürgen Habermas

Schooling has been at once something done to the poor and for the poor / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

Societies are subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic / Stanley Cohen

Time of the tribes / Michel Maffesoli

How working-class kids get working-class jobs / Paul Willis

Families and intimacies : Differences between the sexes are cultural creations / Margaret Mead

Families are factories that produce human personalities / Talcott Parsons

Western man has become a confessing animal / Michel Foucault

Heterosexuality must be recognized and studied as an institution / Adrienne Rich

Western family arrangements are diverse, fluid, and unresolved / Judith Stacey

Marriage contract is a work contract / Christine Delphy

Housework is directly opposed to self-actualization / Ann Oakley

When love finally wins it has to face all kinds of defeat / Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

Sexuality is as much about beliefs and ideologies as about the physical body / Jeffrey Weeks

Queer theory questions the very grounds of identity / Steven Seidman

Glossary.