Module SOC1038 for 2018/9
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC1038: Introduction to Social Analysis: Contemporary Social Theory
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
General texts on contemporary social analysis:
P. Jones (2003) Introducing Social Theory
C. Calhoun et.al. (2002) Contemporary Sociological Theory
Harrington, A. (2005) Modern Social Theory
Some texts by key social theorists covered in the module:Parsons, T. (1968) The Structure of Social Action
Adorno, T.W. and Horkheimer, M. (1997) Dialectic of Enlightenment
Berger, P.L. and Luckmann, T. (1966) The Social Construction of Reality
Garfinkel, H. (1967) Studies in Ethnomethodology
Goffman, E. (1959) The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life
Foucault, M. (1977) Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Millett, Kate (1971) Sexual Politics
Fanon, Frantz (1986) Black Skins, White Masks
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