《经典社会学读本》的选文少而精:总共只选入十五篇文章,但入选的篇篇是经典,用编者的话说就是,“这些文章被挑选出来以代表些已经成为或将要成为这个领域中的经典的社会学思想”。这些文章合在一起,将使学生获得关于这个学科性鲜明的感性认识,使他们在原原创性的思想和分析中得到洗礼,迈开从常识思维到社会学思维的**步。

PREFACE
1 The Promise of Sociology
C.Wright Mills
Top:theory
2 Invitation to Sociology
Peter L.Berger
Topic:theory
3 Manifesto of the Communist Party
Karl Marx and Fridrich Engels
Topic:theory
4 How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff
Topic:mothods
5 Manifest and Latent functions
Robert K.Merton
Topic:culture
6 Body Ritual among the Nacirema
Horace Miner
Topic:culture
7 The Self
George Herbert Mead
Topic:socialization
8 The Presentation of Self
Erving goffman
Topic:social interaction
9 The Uses of Poverty:The Poor Pay All
Herbert J.Gans
Topic:stratification
10 The souls of Black fold
W.E.B. Dubois
Topic:race and ethnicity
11 The future of Marriage
Jessie Bernard
Topic:gender,family
12 On being Sane in Insane Places
D.L.Rosenhan
Topic:deviance and socialization
13 The Power Elite
C.Wright Mills
Topic:education
14 Savage Inequalities
Jonathan Kozol
Topic:education
15 Urbanism as a Way of Life
Louis Wirth
Topic:urbanization