Social Theory (6^th Ed.) The Multicultural, Global, and Classic Readings

For nearly a quarter-century, Charles Lemert has shared his love of social theory, and the questions it explores, in this collection of readings. With 140 selections that begin in the nineteenth century and end in 2015, Social Theory charts the long arc of the development of the field. This edition retains classic texts by Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and W.E.B. Du Bois and writings of major contemporary figures like Audre Lorde and Patricia Hill Collins, while adding pieces from Harriet Martineau, Friedrich Nietzsche, Kimberly Williams Crenshaw, Thomas Piketty, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, among others. Revised and updated with a new section exploring social theory at the limits of the social, Lemert's Social Theory remains essential reading.

Preface/2016 Edition -- Introduction—Social Theory: Its Uses and Pleasures -- Modernity’s Classical Age: 1848–1919 -- The Two Sides of Society -- Split Lives in the Modern World -- Social Theories and World Conflict: 1919–1945 -- Action and Knowledge in a Troubled World -- Unavoidable Dilemmas -- The Golden Moment: 1945–1963 -- The Golden Age -- Doubts and Reservations -- Others Object -- Will the Center Hold? 1963–1979 -- Experiments at Renewal and Reconstruction -- Breaking with Modernity -- After Modernity: 1979–2001 -- The Idea of the Postmodern and Its Critics -- Reactions and Alternatives -- New Cultural Theories after Modernity -- Global Realities in an Uncertain Century -- Global Uncertainties -- Rethinking the Past that Haunts the Future -- Social Theory at the Limits of the Social -- Notes to Accompany “The New Mestiza” (Gloria Anzaldúa, 1987)

Lemert, Charles