Judith Lorber
In Breaking the Bowls, the sequel to Paradoxes of Gender, Judith Lorber shows the cracks, anomalies, and resistances that are breaking down the gendered social order in Western post-industrial societies and lays out how we can take this process further by deliberate degendering.More
Frederic L. Bender, Karl Marx
Second Edition
Karl Marx’s 1848 text is reframed in this revised Norton Critical Edition in the context of twenty-first-century theoretical debates, capitalist globalization, the information technology revolution, and contemporary struggles up to and including the 2011 “Arab Spring.”More
Peter Osborne, Simon Critchley
Intent on letting the reader experience the pleasure and intellectual stimulation in reading classic authors, the How to Read series will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon.More
Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Robert C. Tucker
Second Edition
This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels--those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.More
Andrew Abbott, Jeffrey C. Alexander
Methods of Discovery is organized around strategies for deepening arguments in order to find the best ways to study social phenomena.More
Max Weber, Richard Swedberg
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is Max Weber’s most important work and, since its publication in 1904, has been widely considered the most important sociological study of the twentieth century.More
W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Terri Hume Oliver
When it was published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk revolutionized thinking about the experience of African Americans in the United States.More
John Levi Martin
Teach students how to think about sociological theory.More
Mary Wollstonecraft, Deidre Shauna Lynch
Third Edition
Arguably the most original book of the eighteenth century, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a pioneering feminist work.More