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Literature in the Dawn of Sociological Theory: Stories that are
Telling focuses on a selection of novelists from the early 1800s to
the early 1900s and their contribution to the sociological
imagination. Building on the aesthetic, sociological, and literary
theories of Theodor Adorno, Gyoergy Lukacs, Fredric Jameson,
Raymond Williams, Wolf Lepenies, Franco Moretti, Lucien Goldmann,
John Orr, and others, the main chapters discuss Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Charlotte Perkins
Gilman, Virginia Woolf, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. The concluding
chapter reflects on the dawn of the modern era, especially the
birth of capitalism and the plague crisis in Boccaccio's Florence,
as described in The Decameron. Throughout the text, the author
considers these "stories that are telling" in light of social
issues today. Sarah Louise MacMillen presents a case for
highlighting the insight of the authors of the past, wherein these
"fictional" accounts anticipate some of our contemporary social
problems and conflicts. These include the environmental crisis,
globalization, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, "cancel culture,"
debates about gender non-conformity, secularization, the call for
solidarity in shifting patterns of social existence, and rebuilding
society post-COVID.
Survey of Sociology: From Hobbes to Hip-Hop provides students with
articles that introduce them to key concepts in sociology. Students
learn how and why scholars study society, as well as how cultural
systems, economics, systems of power, and art influence society and
our everyday world. The anthology is divided into four parts. Part
I includes readings that invite students to begin thinking like a
social scientist and introduce various data collection methods. In
Part II, students learn about the effects of cultural systems,
including religion and perspectives on gender and sexuality, on
society. The readings in Part III address big-picture issues,
including economics, power, capitalism, and ecology. In the final
part, students examine perspectives that relate to the individual
and everyday life, including the "inner dialogue" between our sense
of self and our projection of society's expectations,
exchange-behavior in business culture, and how art, literature, and
music can transcend the material experiences of inequality and
injustice and transform society. Insightful and timely, Survey of
Sociology is an ideal supplementary textbook for introductory
courses within the discipline.
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