What sociological works are worth recommending?

I like Marx more and more since I went to graduate school. His old man's house is really powerful, and it has a great influence on the subsequent social science (... two thousand words are omitted below). Tucker's anthology is widely used in the United States. I have read and liked On the Jewish Problem, German Ideology, Das Kapital's excerpts on the labor theory of value and the production process of the reserve army, and louis bonaparte's Foggy Month in August 18th.

2. Weber.

Protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism. An excerpt from bureaucracy. Reason. Weber on China and India. Taking politics as a career and science as a career-Weber's stuff is super cheating, and the original text is quite wrapped. I read Weber from george ritzer's Photocopy of Classical Sociological Theory, which is probably the only place where I will mention textbooks. ...

3.durkheim

On social division of labor. Basic forms of religious life. I especially like the preface of the second edition of Theory of Social Division of Labor.

4. Habermas

Male gods in undergraduate period. Structural Transformation of Public Sector is my introductory work, which is really an excellent book with a theoretical vision of historical, social and political processes, ideas and norms. Easy to understand (I don't know how close to the people than Weber). His influential book in the social sciences may be two volumes of Communicative Action, but if you are not a professional researcher, you don't need to read it.

5. Polani

The great change has a great influence on me. Very good, very good book. Sociological reading Polanyi will pay attention to the double movement, that is, the swinging process of "economic expansion vs. social self-protection" Focusing on the British history in the19th century, the book can see various historical and social processes in which modern capitalism has just flourished. Why do people accept the concept of artificial free spontaneous market ... it reminds you of many things. If you are interested in "capitalism", you must see it.

6. Gramsci

It's a pity not to read Gramsci in contemporary theory class. I like Gramsci very much. Hegemony can break through the "hard" layer of the system and the "soft" layer of identity, and also includes the dimension of historical changes. Prison Miscellaneous Notes in Prison Notes also belongs to the kind of works that are a little bow and scrape, and contains quite a lot of historical combing. At first, you can just read the chapter "Organic Intellectuals", which is very easy to read. Behind the state and civil society (especially Caesareanism), the study of philosophy (I love the part of this chapter about sociology of knowledge and sociology of culture! ) It's also worth seeing.

7. Foucault

Maybe I just realized how much I was influenced by Foucault recently. (Well, many theorists have a great influence on me ...) The best book to read is Discipline and Punishment. However, I really want to recommend his later years "Government Doctrine" and two collections of speeches "Population in Security Field" and "The Birth of Life Politics". It may be an increasingly sharp analysis of modern society. Another book, Power/Knowledge, is also very good. Besides, Words and Things, Archaeology of Knowledge and History of Sex are also worth reading. Don't be scared by the fame outside, it's really not that difficult ... Of course, the latter three books have a greater influence in the humanities field, and people who don't do sociological culture and knowledge research may not need to study. It is more important to look at Foucault's genealogical method of analyzing problems and combing history. Mm-hmm.

8. Bourdieu

Bourdieu is the most cited sociologist in American sociology ... probably because of his series of concepts, capital, field and relationship are particularly convenient to use. However, I don't recommend beginners to use his works directly. The dichotomy between structure and agent is gradually realized through learning and thinking about problems. When they have no problems in their minds, they don't need to talk about structure and agent. A book I read recently is Language and Symbolic Power, and I like it very much. Distinguishing is said to present his concepts of social stratification, field habits and so on, and it is also very suitable for junior students to get started. Unfortunately, I haven't read it myself. As for practical logic, er, I don't even think it is suitable for junior doctoral students. ...

In addition, some influential theoretical works that will enter the classroom in the past two years include: latour, Gl, Porthan, etc. I won't introduce it here for the time being. Sociological training in the United States will emphasize the sociological theory of "being able to link up with empirical research", but not all traditional European scholars will pay more attention to theoretical issues. However, the teachers who do empirical research on deliberative democracy, global organization, development research, immigration and culture in the department have excellent theoretical foundation. When I suggested to Foucault the teachers of organizational sociology (middle-level theory is more important than classical theory), they all gushed. ...

For those who want to know about sociology, the above theoretical works are not interested and cannot be read for the time being. You don't have to read anything. When reading, we should talk about fate. Ideally, when reading a book, we deeply feel that we have known each other for a long time, and the author has made clear and thorough the problems that he has been puzzled and thinking about. If you don't feel that way, it's not fate. We can start with some good empirical studies and go back slowly. Don't believe that any sociology book is a must-read. There is really nothing that is a must-read. . .

As for the method ... well, forget it, the method is my own idea and practice, I can't teach it myself, I can't teach it. For non-professional students, just find a method book and read Pseudo-correlation, Conceptualization and Operation. There is no need to go into details. More importantly, the superficial qualitative/quantitative differences in all the method books cannot cover a large number of methods developed for many interesting problems in many branches of modern sociology ... As for sociology, please take a method class. Besides, I don't recommend Albaby at all. A few friends and I prefer Newman's social research methods-qualitative and quantitative orientation.

Just recommend some books in this sub-field. If you are interested in more specific experience/theoretical problems, you can start here directly.

Political sociology. Please read Zhao Ding's new lecture on social and political movements. In fact, this book is quite a good literature review. For beginners, they can especially understand how modern academic circles think about problems through dialogue with their predecessors and make their own theoretical contributions. Teacher Zhao's book should also be a great contribution to the study of sociology in China ... Of course, this handout pays more attention to the content of social movements, and political sociology will also include the theories of interest groups, political parties, civil society and so on. Habermas naturally wants to read The Direction of Civil Society, Citizenship and Social Class by T.H. Marshall, Making Democracy Work by Putnam, and Genealogy of Citizenship by Summers are all excellent works. For the theory of state, we can first look at "Bringing the Country Back" edited by Skopje and Evans. In the direction of nationalism, apart from the well-known imaginative homomorphism, Geller's "Nation and Nationalism" is especially recommended, and the short book of 100 page is almost full of words. The embarrassment of political sociology is that many conceptual tools are not easy to use because of the domestic system, and it is difficult to talk, but my personal view is that this does not mean that we can completely ignore these theories, but only need our higher-level theoretical thinking ability.

Globalization and development. I have always felt that China's economic development in the past 30 years or even longer should be viewed from a broad global perspective. I strongly recommend Beverly Silver's "the power of labor" and david harvey's "Post-Modernity" (don't read his neo-liberal book, it's stupid). In addition, you can directly find the relevant chapters of interest in the Handbook of Economic Sociology written by Smelser. The chapters on global industrial chain and welfare state are written by giants in related fields, and they are well summarized.

Comparative historical sociology. Hehehehehehehehehe ... I have written too much about comparative history and don't know how to write it. To put it simply, comparative historical sociology mainly uses sociological theories and analytical tools to conduct relatively macro/in-depth discussions on historical issues, such as national construction, the birth of industrial capitalism, revolution, the world system and so on. You can watch the National and Social Revolution and feel the perspective and method of analyzing problems in this field (different from historians). There are also The Social Origins of Democracy and Autocracy by Moore and National Construction and Citizenship by Bendiks. And ... forget it, leave me a message/private message if you are interested.

Cultural sociology. This is another field I really want to go to ... in short, cultural sociology includes not only branches that specialize in culture (museums, artists, cultural industries, etc.). , and expanded collective memory and national symbols. ), it also means to treat political issues, economic issues and structural issues with more subtle perspectives and analytical methods. It is really a field that is too difficult to explain clearly and too easy to cause misunderstanding. Again, please leave a message/private message if you are interested.

Organizational sociology. As far as I know, organizational sociology is basically a field that makes knowledge contributions by periodical papers rather than research works. The scope of organization can be very wide, including all kinds of enterprises, political parties, non-governmental organizations, etc., but it is also a little small. Organizational sociology in the United States mostly focuses on the study of American business organizations. Last year, I attended a graduate seminar on organizational sociology, and I felt that Mr. Zhou Xueguang's lecture notes on organizational sociology ... I don't know, they were a little old and didn't quite meet my interest. However, modern organization theory actually has many good things, that is, the lecture notes can not be summarized in time.

Organizational sociology is a very prosperous middle-level theoretical field, which is relatively more professional and boring ............................................................................................................................................................ ...

Oh, by the way, organizational sociology and professional sociology are closely related. American occupational sociology is dominated by doctors and lawyers. According to China, Liu Sida has a very good book "The Logic of Separatism" about China's lawyer industry. He is a student of Abbott, a leading figure in professional sociology. The book also follows Abbott's point of view and analyzes and sorts out the empirical materials.

If you study China's works in Chinese, you can read them directly with these names: Guma, Qu Jingdong, Feng, etc. Another UCLA professor, Ching Kwan Lee (labor movement), has something good, so Andrew Walder won't talk about it.

In addition, you can also read the articles in Sociological Research and Society directly.

Let's talk about these first. To sum up a few words: to understand sociology, you don't need to start with classics. You don't need to start with a book. You can start at any time. You can read the empirical research first, or you can read it slowly from a good long article or paper, or you can read one or two theoretical works you like carefully first, and then continue to expand. Driven by questions, not by any "must read" list.