Total: 41
Books: 24
Articles/Excerpts: 17
Day 1
Political Sociology General Comprehensive Exams: Reading List
Fall 2014
Power
Books (7):
1.
Fanon, Frantz. 1963. The Wretched of the Earth. Pref. J.P. Sartre. Grove.
2.
Foucault, Michel. 1979. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Pantheon.
3.
Habermas, Jurgen. 1989. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. M.I.T.
4.
Said, Edward. 1978. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books.
5.
McKittrick, Katherine. 2006. Demonic Grounds Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle.
The University of Minnesota Press.
6.
Iton, Richard. 2008. In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics & Popular Culture in the Post-Civil
Rights Era. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press
7.
Wallerstein, Immanuel, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi M. Derluguian, and Craig Calhoun.
2013. Does Capitalism Have a Future? Oxford University Press.
Articles/Chapters (7):
1.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. Excerpts from Outline of a Theory of Practice. Trans. Richard Nice.
Cambridge. ("Structures and the Habitus;" "Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of
Symbolic Power").
2.
Lukes, Steven. 2005. Excerpts from Power: A Radical View. Palgrave Macmillan
3.
Mann, Michael. 1986. Excerpts from The Sources of Social Power: Vol 1. Cambridge.
4.
Marx, Karl, and Frederich Engels. 1972. The Marx-Engels Reader. Ed. Robert C. Tucker. Norton.
("The German Ideology”, “Communist Manifesto;” "Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of
Political Economy.”)
5.
Somers, Margaret. 1995. “What’s Political or Cultural about Political Culture and the Public
Sphere? Toward a Historical Sociology of Concept Formation.” Sociological Theory
6.
Weber, Max. [1968]. Economy and Society, v. 3, 941-955 ("Domination and Legitimacy"), 956-963
and 980-994 ("Bureaucracy"), 1006-1015 ("Patriarchalism and Patrimonialism"), 1111-1135 and
1148-1156 ("Charisma and Its Transformations")
7.
Weber, Max. 1946. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Eds. and trans. Hans H. Gerth and C.
Wright Mills. Oxford. (“Politics as a Vocation;” “Class, Status and Party”)
Total: 41
Books: 24
Articles/Excerpts: 17
State
Books (10):
1.
Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism. Verso.
2.
Charrad, Mounira M. 2001. States and Women’s Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia,
Algeria, and Morocco. Berkeley: University of California Press.
3.
Chatterjee, Partha. 1993. The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
4.
Gorski, Philip. 2003. Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Modern
Europe. University Of Chicago Press.
5.
Moore, Barrington. 1966. The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in
the Making of the Modern World. Beacon.
6.
Polanyi, Karl. 2001. The Great Transformation, Beacon Press
7.
Putnam, Robert. 1994. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton:
Princeton University Press.
8.
Skocpol, Theda. 1979. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia
and China. Cambridge University Press.
9.
Charles, Tilly. 1992. Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1992.
10. Wacquant, Loic. 2007. Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity. Duke
University Press.
Articles/Chapters (2):
1.
Bourdieu, Pierre. “Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field” in
Steinmetz, George. 1999. State/Culture: State Formation after the Cultural Turn.
2.
Skocpol “Introduction: Bringing the State Back In”. Evans, Peter; Dietrich Rueschemeyer and
Theda Skocpol. 1985. Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge University Press. (367)
A. The conclusion as well.
Total: 41
Books: 24
Articles/Excerpts: 17
Social Movements
Books (7):
1.
Auyero, Javier. 2007. Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina: the Grey Zone of State Power.
Cambridge University Press.
2.
Gould, Deborah. 2009. Moving Politics: Emotion and Act Up's Fight Against AIDS.
3.
McAdam, Doug, Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly. 2001. Dynamics of Contention Cambridge; New
York: Cambridge University Press.
4.
Piven, Francis Fox and Richard Cloward. 1977. Poor Peoples’ Movements: Why they Succeed, How
they Fail.
5.
Redmond, Shana L. 2014. Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African
Diaspora. New York, NY: The New York University Press.
6.
Tarrow, Sidney. 1994. Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action, and Politics.
Cambridge.
7.
Tilly, Charles. 1978. From Mobilization to Revolution. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley
Articles/Chapters (8):
1.
Amenta, Edwin, Neal Caren, Elizabeth Chiarello, and Yang Su. 2010. "The political consequences
of social movements." Annual Review of Sociology 36: 287-307.
2.
Aminzade, Ron and Doug McAdam. 2001. “Emotions and Contentious Politics.” Pp. 14-50 in
Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics. Eds. Ronald R. Aminzande et al.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
3.
Benford, Robert D. and David A. Snow. 2000. "Framing Processes and Social Movements: An
Overview and Assessment." Annual Review of Sociology 26: 11-39.
4.
Goodwin, Jeff, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta. 2000. “The Return of the Repressed:
The Fall and Rise of Emotions in Social Movement Theory.” Mobilization 5 (1): 65-84.
5.
McAdam, Doug, John McCarthy, and Mayer Zald. 1996. Excerpts Comparative Perspectives on
Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings.
Cambridge. (357)
6.
Goodwin, Jeff and James Jasper. 1999. “Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias
of Political Process Theory.” Sociological Forum 14: 27-54. (27)
7.
Melucci, Alberto. 1998. Excerpts from Challenging Codes. New York: Cambridge University.
A. Chapters 1 and 2.
8.
Walder. Andrew G. 2009. “Political Sociology and Social Movements,” Annual Review of
Sociology. 35: 393-412.