Table of Contents

1. Modernity, Democracy, and the Making of a Civic Sociologist
The Making of Modernity—Social Factors and Intellectual Ideas
America and the First Sociologists
Modern Institutions
Civic Sociology and the Craft of Citizenship
The Craft of Citizenship
2. Society
The Evolution of Society—Herbert Spencer
Culture and Society—Talcott Parsons
The System of Civil Society—Jeffrey C. Alexander
The Craft of Citizenship
3. Self
Creating the Self—George Herbert Mead
Performing the Self—Erving Goffman
The Language and Reality of the Self—R. S. Perinbanayagam
The Craft of Citizenship
4. Religion
The Religious Basis of Society—Émile Durkheim
Modern Religion—Robert Bellah
The God of War
The Craft of Citizenship
5. Capitalism
Contradictions of Capitalism—Karl Marx
Colonization of Democracy—Jürgen Habermas
Capitalism and the Body —Pierre Bourdieu
The Craft of Citizenship
6. Power
The Fundamental Contours of Power—Max Weber
Organizing Power—Ralf Dahrendorf
The Practices of Power—Michel Foucault
The Craft of Citizenship
7. Gender
The Root Causes of Gender Inequality—Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Structuring Gender Inequality—Janet Chafetz
Consciousness and the Relations of Ruling—Dorothy E. Smith
The Craft of Citizenship
8. Race
Double Consciousness—W.E.B. Du Bois
Race and Class—William Julius Wilson
Market Moralities and Black Nihilism—Cornel West
The Craft of Citizenship
9. Globalization
Runaway Modernity—Anthony Giddens
Global Capitalism—Immanuel Wallerstein
The Network Society—Manuel Castells
The Craft of Citizenship

About the Author

Kenneth Allan received his PhD in sociology from the University of California, Riverside (1995), and is currently professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Before moving to UNCG, he directed the Teaching Assistant Development Program at the University of California, Riverside, and coedited Training Teaching Assistants, 2nd Edition (1997), published by the American Sociological Association. In addition to teaching classical and contemporary theory at UNCG, Allan also supervised UNCG’s sociology iSchool program, which offered online introduction to sociology classes to high school students across North Carolina, has designed several online courses for both the college and department, and has regularly taught graduate pedagogy courses. Allan’s research areas include theory, culture, and the self. He has authored several works in the area of theory, including multiple textbooks covering classical and contemporary theory, as well as The Meaning of Culture: Moving the Postmodern Critique Forward, and A Primer in Social and Sociological Theory: Toward a Sociology of Citizenship. His current projects include a social history of American individualism, a sociological analysis of consciousness and self, as well as a novel based in early 20th century American life.