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An Introduction to Critical Sociology: From Modernity to Postmodernity
Contents
List of Boxes
Preface
PART ONE: Introducing Critical Sociology
CHAPTER ONE: Sociology, Discourse, and Public Philosophy
A Brief Overview of Sociology
Sociology and Discourse
Sociology as a Discourse of “Seeing the General in the Particular” and “the Strange in the Familiar”
Sociology as a Discourse of Debunking Commonsense Knowledge: questioning hegemonic ideologies
Sociology as a Discourse of Public Philosophy
CHAPTER TWO: Sociological Imagination and Critical Sociology
The Sociological Imagination and Public Philosophy
‘Discursive Sociological Knowledge’ and Quality of Mind
The Sociological Imagination Framework
The Sociological Imagination, Ethnocentrism, and False-Consciousness
The Sociological Imagination, Public Philosophy, and Dialectical Analysis
Critical Sociology Discourse
PART ONE: Conclusion and Review Questions
Chapters Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
PART TWO: Sociology, Sociological Theories, Controversies, and Debates
Chapter Three Sociology: a multi-facetted field
Sociology as a “Scientific Discipline”
Sociology as a Multi- and Trans-Disciplinary Field: what do sociologists do?
Sociology, Debates, Controversies, Paradigms, and Theories
Becoming a Theorist: why is theory important?
CHAPTER FOUR: Sociology, Debates, and Methods
Agency and Structure Debate: social constructionism versus structuralism views
Macro- and Micro-Sociology Debate
Quantitative and Qualitative Sociology
Going Beyond Agency versus Social Structure, Objective versus Subjective, and Macro- versus Micro-Sociology Debates
PART TWO: Conclusion and Review Questions
Chapters Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
PART THREE: From Premodernity to Modernity
CHAPTER FIVE: Sociological Field, Context, and History
Sociology as a Field: contextualizing the emerging sociological debates and controversies
History and Sociology: an overview
CHAPTER SIX: Sociology and the Rise of Modern Societies
From Premodernity to Modernity
PART THREE: Conclusion and Review Questions
Chapters Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
PART FOUR: Modernity and the Birth ofSociology
Chapter Seven: Sociology, Modernity, and Change
Three Features of Modernity and New Modern Institutions
Time and Space Separation (Distanciation): the chasm between modern and premodern eras
Disembedding of Social Systems: the second source of dynamism in modernity
Chapter Eight: Modernity, Expert Systems, and Modernism
Two Mechanisms of Disembedding: symbolic tokens and expert systems
Modernism
PART FOUR: Conclusion and Review Questions
Chapters Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
PART FIVE: Modernity, Historical Epochs, Nation-States, and Construction of Identity
CHAPTER NINE: Modernity, the Enlightenment, Society, and Nation-States
Modernity and Historical Epochs
The Renaissance (1300–1600)
The Enlightenment (1685–1815)
Reactions to the Enlightenment
Society in Modernity
Modern Nation-States
Characteristics of Modern Societies
Chapter Ten: Identity and the Self in Modernity
Symbolic Interactionism: George Herbert Mead and Charles Horton Cooley
George Herbert Mead
Mead and Cooley: the concept of the looking-glass self
Play and Game Stages in Child Development and the Development of the Self
Components of the self: the “I” and “Me”
PART FIVE: Conclusion and Review Questions
Chapters Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
PART SIX: Industrialization, Political Revolutions, Urbanization, Capitalism, Militarization, and Modernity
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Sociology and Modern Technological, Social, and Economic Changes
From Preindustrial to Industrial Societies
CHAPTER TWELVE: Sociology and the Rise of Capitalism
Capitalism: an overview
Mercantilism-Merchant Capitalism (1500–1770s)
Industrial Capitalism (1770s–1860s)
Industrial Capitalism: a historical-theoretical analysis
Corporate Industrial Capitalism (1860s–1930s)
Taylorism and Fordism
Taylorism and Fordism: what are their differences and similarities?
The Great Depression and the New Deal: from laissez-faire economy to planned economy
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Welfare State, Neoliberalism, and Postindustrialism
Keynesian State/Corporate Capitalism (1930s–1970s): the era of intense social, cultural, economic, and political changes
Militarization of the World: military industrial complex, educational security state, national security state, and industrial-consumer society
The Rise of the Welfare State
Neoliberal/Corporate Capitalism (1960s-present)
Neoliberalism
Post-Fordism and Postindustrialism
Capitalist Stages: similarities and shared characteristics
PART SIX: Conclusion and Review Questions
Chapters Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
PART SEVEN: Capitalism, the State, Nation-States, Surveillance, and Violence
Chapter Fourteen: Sociology, Power Structure, and Canada
Power and Politics
Types of Resources and Three Models of Power
Power: its forms and levels
Social and Economic Power and Power Structure Models
Analysis of Elite Groups in Canada
Wallace Clement and His Analysis of Elites
William Carroll and His Analysis of Elite Groups
States and Types of Government
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Theory, the State, and Sociology: An Introductory Reflection
Two Theoretical Perspectives: the state in modernity
Structural Functionalism and the State
Marxism and the State
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Nation-States, Violence, and Imagined Identities
The Rise of Nation-States
The European World Prior to the Establishment of Nation-States
Modern Nation-States: definition and characteristics
Modern Nation-States and Surveillance
Modern Nation-States and Violence
Violence, Genocide, and Nation-States in Modernity
Nation-States and Constructions of Imagined Identities and Invented Traditions
Construction of National Identity: the discourse of nationalism
National Identity and the Discourse of Binary Polarization
PART SEVEN: Conclusion and Review Questions
Chapters Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
PART EIGHT: Colonialism, Imperialism, and Postcolonial Relations
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Colonialism, Imperialism, and Postcolonial Relations
Conceptualizing Colonialism, Imperialism, and Postcolonialism
Colonialism, “Race”, and Racism
Racialization, Whiteness, and Domination: from colonial conceptions of “race” to different forms of contemporary racism
Colonialism, Modernity, and Racial Discourses
Monogenetic and Polygenetic Theories of Racial Differences: scientific racism, eugenicism, and the discourse of whiteness
Colonizing Aboriginal Peoples in North America
Imperialism
Neocolonialism, Internal Colonialism, and Postcolonialism
Orientalism: the discourse of western hegemony and domination
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Colonialism, Domination, and Resistance
Colonial and Imperialist Expansions: two distinct periods
The First Period
The Second Period: modern consequences of colonialism and imperialism
Colonialism and Domination: assimilation, deculturalization, segregation, and educational denial
Anticolonial Resistance and Neocolonialism: postcolonialism
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Theory, Capitalist Formation, and Economic and Cultural Oppressions
Theorizing the Effects of Colonialism, Imperialism, and Capitalist Relations: modernization, dependency, and world-system theories
Modernization Theory
Dependency Theory
The Modern World-System Theory
CHAPTER TWENTY:Canada, the Nation-Building Process, and Aboriginal Others
Colonialism, Empire, Racism, and Nation-Building: the case of Canada
Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism, Internal Colonialism, and Schooling: total institutions and resocialization
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Immigration, Multiculturalism, and the Canadian Nation-State
Nation-Building, Immigration, and Multiculturalism: the case of Canada
Multiculturalism in Canada
Four Different Meanings of Multiculturalism: a recap
The Four Principles and Three Phases of Multiculturalism
Problems Associated with Multiculturalism
Immigration, State Policy, and Discrimination: a historicalsociological overview
PART EIGHT: Conclusion and Review Questions
Chapters Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
PART NINE: Globalization, Postindustrialism, and Postmodernity
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Modernity and Globalization
Sociology as a Discourse to Understand Globalization
Distinguishing between Globalism and Globalization
Globalization from Above and Globalization from Below
Globalization: economic, cultural, political, and social perspectives
Supporters of Globalization
Detractors of Globalization
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Ideology, Globalization, and the Neoliberal Framework
The Ideology of Globalization: the neoliberal discourse
Characteristics of Neoliberalism
Are Neoliberal Policies Hegemonic?
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Postindustrial Societies and Changes from Industrialism
From Industrialism to Postindustrialism
Postindustrialism, Postindustrial Society, and Information Society
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Postmodernism: A critique of modernity
A Critical Summary
PART NINE: Conclusion and Review Questions
Chapters Review Questions
Critical Thinking Questions
Conclusion
References & Bibliography