This book is a fresh and expansive take on social theory that foregrounds a plurality of perspectives and reflects contemporary trends in the field, while being an accessible and manageable teaching tool.

Preface Reading Theory: A General Introduction Part IV: Transitions and Changes Introduction Suggested Readings for Part IV Chapter Nine: The Social Theory of Erving Goffman Introduction The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Frame Analysis 'The Interaction Order' Suggested Readings Study Guide Key Terms Questions & Exercises Chapter Ten: Power, Bodies, and Subjects: The Social Theory of Michel Foucault Introduction Discipline and Punish "The Body of the Condemned" and "The Panopticon" "The Subject and the Power" Suggested Readings Study Guide Key Terms Questions & Exercises Chapter Eleven: The Social Theory of Pierre Bourdieu Introduction Sociology in Question The Logic of Practice Distinction Suggested Readings Study Guide Key Terms Questions & Exercises Chapter Twelve: The Social Theory of Stuart Hall Introduction "Encoding, Decoding" "Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities" Gramsci's "Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity" Suggested Readings Study Guide Key Terms Questions & Exercises Part V: Dispersion and Difference Introduction Chapter Thirteen: Issues of Race and Ethnicity in a Post-Colonial World Introduction Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth Edward W. Said, Orientalism Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness Suggested Readings Study Guide Key Terms Questions & Exercises Chapter Fourteen: Highlighting Gender and Sexuality Introduction Dorothy E. Smith, The Conceptual Practices of Power Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter Angela Davis. Lisa Lowe's Interview with Angela Davis (1995) Raewynn W. Connell, Masculinities John D'Emilio, "Capitalism and Gay Identity" Suggested Readings Study Guide Key Terms Questions & Exercises Chapter Fifteen: Conceptions of Culture Introduction Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style Jurgen Habermas, Legitimation Crises The Theory of Communicative Action; Frederic Jameson, Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism Suggested Readings Study Guide Key Terms Questions & Exercises Chapter Sixteen: Media and Culture in the Information Age Introduction Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation Paul Willis, The Ethnographic Imagination Roland Barthes, "Mythologies" Suggested Readings Study Guide Key Terms Questions & Exercises Chapter Seventeen: Global Views Introduction Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System Arjun Appadurai, "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy" Saskia Sassen, "The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier" Nestor Garcia-Canclini, Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity Suggested Readings Study Guide Key Terms Questions & Exercises Sources Index