Introductions. In the beginning was modernity
Defining moments in twentieth-century theory / Talcott Parsons and the Frankfurt School
Individuals and situations. The language of the self / Herbert Blumer
Imaging the self / Erving Goffman
Achieving social order / Harold Garfinkel
Social exchanges / George Homans, Peter Blau, and Randall Collins
Social structures and systems. Structures of racial and gender inequality / William Julius Wilson and Janet Saltzman Chafetz
Structuring class / Pierre Bourdieu
Structures of power / Michel Foucault
World systems theory / Immanuel Wallerstein
The network society / Manuel Castells
Modernity : possibilities and problems. Reason and democracy / Jurgen Habermas
Civil society and democracy / Jeffrey C. Alexander
Runaway modernity / Anthony Giddens
Contemporary political identities. Being Black in America / Patricia Hill Collins and Cornel West
Text, power, and women / Dorothy E. Smith
Exposing sex / Judith Butler
Conclusion : post-thinking.
