Social Theory

Welcome to Social Theory

Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. The current release features more than 90,000 pages of content by such major theorists as Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Ulrich Beck, Howard Becker, Nancy Chodorow, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Erving Goffman, Robert Merton, and Talcott Parsons.
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Fin De Siecle Social Theory: Relativism, Reduction, and the Problem of Reason by Jeffrey C. Alexander

Alexander stresses how to keep modernization alive and how it is still thriving in a practical sense.

Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities by Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein

The philospher and historian's remarkable dialogue on the growth of racism, class struggle, and nationalism in modern society.

Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings by Erving Goffman

Goffman profoundly uncovers the ordinary behaviors of everyday life and why they remain common to our social interaction.

America by Jean Baudrillard

Baudrillard's impressions of America from coast to coast and his observations of the culture.