These required books are available at the Vassar bookstore:
Tucker, Robert C. 1978. The Marx-Engels Reader. 2nd ed. New York: Norton. [ISBN: 039309040X]Sennett, Richard. 2000. The Corrosion of Character. New York: Norton. [ISBN: 0393319873]
Durkheim, Emile. 1997. The Division of Labor in Society. New York: Free Press. [ISBN: 0684836386]
Gaines, Donna. 1998. Teenage Wasteland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [ISBN: 0226278727]
Heydebrand, Wolf. 1994. Max Weber: Sociological Writings. The German Library, Vol. 60. New York: Continnum. [ISBN: 0826407196]
Weber, Max. 1993. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Routledge. [ISBN: 0415084342]
Other required readings will be made available by hand-out or at the reserve library.
The following books are available at the reserve library. They provide useful historical context and theoretical elaboration for the ideas we discuss in class. If you feel unsure of your grasp of the course materials, be sure to look at the chapters I have recommended in the course schedule.
Collins, Randall and Michael Makowsky. The Discovery of Society. Any edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill.Giddens, Anthony. 1971. Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim, and Max Weber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.