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Lecture 1

Abend, Gabriel (2008). “What is the Meaning of ‘Theory’?”, Sociological Theory, Vol.26, iss. 2 page(s): 173–199.

Coleman, James S. (1986). “Social Theory, Social Research, and a Theory of Action”. American Journal of Sociology, 91: 1309–35.

Merton, Robert K. (1945). “Sociological Theory”, American Journal of Sociology, 50 (6):462–473.

Dorothy, E. Smith (1999). ”Sociological Theory: Methods of Writing Patriarchy into Feminist Texts”, Chapter 4, Writing the Social. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 45–70.

Swedberg, Richard (2012). “Theorizing in sociology and social science: turning to the context of discovery”, Theory and Society, 41:1–40.

Lecture 2

Agger, Ben (1991). "Critical theory, poststructuralism, postmodernism: Their sociological relevance." Annual Review of Sociology 17.1: 105–131.

Battershill, Charles D. (1990). "Erving Goffman as a precursor to post-modern sociology." Beyond Goffman: Studies on communication, institution, and social interaction, 163–86.

Baudrillard, Jean (2001). “The Gulf War Did Not Take Place”, in Jean Baudrillard: Selected 

Writings, Second Edition, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 231–254.

Bauman, Zygmunt (1993). Postmodern ethics (excerpts)

Benhabib, Seyla (2010). "The return of political theology: The scarf affair in comparative constitutional perspective in France, Germany and Turkey." Philosophy & Social Criticism 36.3–4: 451–471.

McNay, Lois (2008). The trouble with Recognition. Subjectivity, Suffering

and Agency. Sociological Theory. 26: 271–296.

Mbembe, Achille (2008). "Necropolitics." Foucault in an Age of Terror. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 152–182.

Lecture 3

Foucault, Michel (1979). “The means of correct training”. In Foucault, Michel (1979). Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison. New York: Vintage Books. (24 pages).

Garland, David (2018). Theoretical advances and problems in the sociology of punishment. Punishment & Society 20(1), 8–33. (25 pages)

Goffman, Erving (1961/2007). “On the characteristics of total institutions.” In Goffman, Erving (1961/2007). Asylums: Essays in the social situation of mental patients and other inmates. London: Aldine Transaction Publishers, pp. 3–12. (10 pages).

Lyon, David (1993). An Electronic Panopticon? A Sociological Critique of Surveillance Theory. The Sociological Review 41(4), 653–678. (25 pages)

Rhodes, Lorna (2007). Supermax as a Technology of Punishment. Social Research 74(2), 547-566. (19 pages)

Zuboff, Shoshana (2015). Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization. Journal of Information Technology, 30, 75–89. (14 pages)

Lecture 4

Chapter 1.,” Power”, Cedric de Leon and Andy Clarno, Pages 35-53 in Janoski, T., de Leon, C., Misra, J., & Martin, I. W. (Eds.). (2020). The new handbook of political sociology. Cambridge University Press. theories of political sociology = 18 Pages

Bourdieu, Pierre and Loic J.D. Wacquant. (1992). An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 94–115. = 21 pages

Bourdieu, Pierre. (1999). “Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field,” pp. 53–75 in George Steinmetz (ed.) State/Culture: State Formation after the Cultural Turn. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. = 22 pages

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1990 [1981]. “Political Representation: Elements for a Theory of the Political Field,” in Language and Symbolic Power. Pp. 171–202. = 31 pages

Burawoy, Michael (2012). The roots of domination: Beyond Bourdieu and Gramsci. Sociology, 2012, 46.2: 187–206. = 19 pages

Burawoy, M. (2018). The poverty of philosophy: Marx meets Bourdieu. The Oxford handbook of Pierre Bourdieu, 1–28. = 28 pages

Burawoy, Michael (2012), “CONVERSATION 3, CULTURAL DOMINATION, Gramsci Meets Bourdieu” in Burawoy, M., & Von Holdt, K. (2012). Conversations with Bourdieu: the Johannesburg moment. NYU Press. = 18 pages

Eyal, Gil (2005). The making and breaking of the Czechoslovak political field. Pierre Bourdieu and democratic politics. Cambridge: Polity, 151–177. = 26 pages

Pop, L. (2018). Bourdieu in the post-communist world. The Oxford handbook of Pierre Bourdieu, 146–158. = 12 pages

Walzer, M. (1992). The civil society argument. Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 94(1) –0 = 10 pages

Lecture 5

Hall, P. A., & Taylor, R. C. R. (1996). Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms. Political Studies, 44(5), 936–957.

Immergut, E. (1998). The Theoretical Core of the New Institutionalism. Politics & Society, 26(1), 5–34.

Korpi, W. (1985). Power Resources Approach vs. Action and Conflict: On Causal and Intentional Explanation in the Study of Power. Sociological theory, 3(2), 31–45.

 Korpi, W. (1989). Power, Politics, and State Autonomy in the Development of Social Citizenship: Social Rights during Sickness in Eighteen OECD Countries Since 1930. American Sociological Review, 54(3), 309–328.

Schmidt, V. A. (2010). Taking ideas and discourse seriously: explaining change through discursive institutionalism as the fourth ‘new institutionalism’, European Political Science Review, 2, 1: 1–25

Streeck, W., & Thelen, K. (2005). Introduction: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies. In W. Streeck & K. Thelen (Eds.), Beyond Continuity. Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies (pp. 1–39). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lecture 6

Collins, Randall (2004). Interaction ritual chains. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Chapter 1, ”The program of Interaction Ritual Theory” (pp. 3–46); Chapter 2, ”The mutual-focus / emotional-entrainment model” (pp. 47–101).

Collins, Randall (2008). Violence: A micro-sociological theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Chapter 1, ”The micro sociology of violent confrontations” (pp. 1–35).

Collins, Randall (2001) .”Social Movements and the Focus of Emotional Attention”, pp. 27–44 in Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper & Francesca Polletta (Eds.), Passionate politics: Emotions and social movements. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Collins, Randall (2020). ”Social distancing as a critical test of the micro-sociology of solidarity”. American Journal of Cultural Sociology 8 (3): 477–497.

Hochschild, Arlie Russell (1979). “Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure”, American Journal of Sociology 85(3) 551–575.