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Title: Positive Philosophy

Author: Auguste Comte

Source: Pages 49–59

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Title: Suicide

Author: Émile Durkheim

Source: Pages  45–51

Title: The Rules of Sociological Method

Author: Émile Durkheim

Source: Pages 54–59

Title: The Division of Labour in Society

Author: Émile Durkheim

Source: Pages 89–151

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Title: Suicide

Author: Émile Durkheim

Source: Pages  45–51

Title: The Rules of Sociological Method

Author: Émile Durkheim

Source: Pages 54–59

Title: The Division of Labour in Society

Author: Émile Durkheim

Source: Pages 89–151

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Title: Karl Marx’s Theory of Market Competition

Author: Tuna Baskoy

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Title: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy

Author: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Source: Pages 60–66

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Title: “The Situation Within the Socialist International” in The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution

Author: N. Lenin

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Title: “A New Type of State Emerging from our Revolution” in The Tasks of the Proletariat

Author: N. Lenin

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Title: The Proletarian Party

Author: Joseph Stalin

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Title: Capitalism and Alienation: Towards a Marxist Theory of Alienation for the 21st Century

Author: Emil Øversvee

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Title: Marx and the Labor Process: An Interpretation

Author: David Gartman

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Title: “Americanism and Fordism” in The Prison Notebooks

Author: Antonio Gramsci

Source: Pages 60–66

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Title: “Some Social Implications of Modern Technology”

Author: Herbert Marcuse

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Title: Habermas on Rationality: Means, Ends, and Communication

Author:  Adrian Blau

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Title: Communicative Action

Author: Jurgen Habermas

Source: Pages 455–468

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Title: Mind, Self, and Society

Author: George H. Mead

Source: Pages 104–118

Title: Symbolic Interaction and “Applied” Social Research

Author: Joseph A. Kotarba

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Title: Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Author: Erving Goffman

Source: Pages 76–96

Title: Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Author: Erving Goffman 

Source: Pages 142–147

Title: Mind, Self, and Society

Author: George H. Mead

Source: Pages 210–214 AND 228–236

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Title: The Consequences of Modernity

Author: Anthony Giddens

Source: Pages 8–35

Title: “The Juggernaut of Modernity Collapses. The Crisis of Social Plantification in the Post-COVID-19 era”

Author: Roberto Lusardi and Stefano Tomelleri

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Title: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard

Source: Pages 38–41

Title: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard

Source: Pages 51–61

Title: “Simulacra and Simulations”

Author: Jean Baudrillard

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Title: “The Problem that has No Name” in The Feminine Mystique 

Author: Betty Friedan

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Title: The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments

Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Title: “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color”

Author: Kimberle Crenshaw

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Title: Epistemology of the Closet

Author: Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick

Source: Pages 72–102

Title: “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution”

Author: Judith Butler

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Title: “The Question of Power and Authority in Gender Performance: Judith Butler’s Drag Strategy”

Author: Charlotte Coles

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Title: Foundations of Social Theory

Author: James Coleman

Source: Pages 46–62

Title: Foundations of Social Theory

Author: James Coleman

Source: Pages 84–104

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Title: “Social Behavior as Exchange”

Author: George C. Homans

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Title: Exchange and Power in Social Life

Author: Peter Blau

Source: Pages 107–133

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