COURSE MATERIALS

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Click here to download biographies, editable theory maps, and select readings.

BOOKS

Beauvoir, Simone de. [1949] 2011. The Second Sex. New York: Vintage Books. [10-digit ISBN: 030727778X]

Cooper, Anna Julia. 1998. The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including a Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters. Edited by C. Lemert and E. Bhan. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. [10-digit ISBN: 0847684083]

Du Bois, W.E.B. [1935] 1992. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880. New York: The Free Press. [10-digit ISBN: 0684856573]

Durkheim, Émile. [1893] 2014. The Division of Labor in Society. New York: The Free Press. [10-digit ISBN: 1476749736]

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. 1978. The Marx-Engels Reader (2^nd Edition). Edited by R. C. Tucker. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. [10-digit ISBN: 039309040X]

Weber, Max. [1905] 2003. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications. [10-digit ISBN: 048642703X]

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GUIDES

This website include short reading summaries for every Assigned Theorist. These are also included in the PDF of the syllabus. [1]

Custom "theory maps" are also available on this website.

You should refer to these summaries and maps before, during, and after you read the assigned texts.

[1] I wrote these reading summaries as abstracts for loosely planned discussions. I also wrote these because I wanted to offer a demystifying and synthesizing guide that students with varying backgrounds in theory training could refer to during, and hopefully beyond, this course. There are certainly downsides to this approach. But, given our ambitious reading schedule and course goals, I think the pros outweigh the cons.