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Castells, Manuel 1972. The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach. Delany, Samuel R. 1999. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. Gottdiener, Mark, and Ray Hutchison. 2000. The New Urban Sociology. Hutter, Mark. 2007. Experiencing Cities: A Global Approach. Jacobs, Jane. 1961. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. "[This book] became perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning, and simultaneously helped to kill off the modern movement in architecture." Molotch, Harvey, and John R. Logan. 1987. Urban Fortunes: The Political economy of Place. Turned mainstream sociological opinion against the Chicago school of Human Ecology by foregrounding the influence of institutions and political settings in the growth of cities. Park, Robert E., and Ernest W. Burgess. 1925. The City. Foundational text in American sociology, Chicago school, Urban sociology, and Human ecology. Simmel, Georg. 1903. The Metropolis and Mental Life.
== Gender and Intersectionality ==
Bem, Sandra Lipsitz. 1994. Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality. Chodorow, Nancy. 1978. The Reproduction of Mothering. Collins, Patricia Hill. 2005. Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism. — 2006. From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism. Connell, Raewyn W. 1987. Gender and Power: Society, the Person, and Sexual Politics. — 2002. Gender: Short Introductions. Harding, Sandra. 1991. Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives.
== Knowledge ==
Sociology of knowledge refers to the study of the relationship between human thought and the social context within which it arises, as well as of the effects prevailing ideas have on societies.
Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckmann. 1966. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Bloor, David. 1976. Knowledge and social imagery. Gave rise to the field known as Science and Technology Studies. Fleck, Ludwik. 1935. Genesis and development of a scientific fact. Latour, Bruno, and Steve Woolgar. 1979. Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Ethnography of microbiologists working at the Salk Institute. Explains the elevation of observations to the level of fact through a system of credibility. Started the ethnographic laboratory studies movement in the sociology of knowledge. Mannheim, Karl. 1936. Ideologie und Utopie [Ideology and Utopia].
== Politics ==
Traditionally, political sociology has been concerned with the ways in which social trends, dynamics, and structures of domination affect formal political processes, as well as exploring how various social forces work together to change political policies. Now, it is also concerned with the formation of identity through social interaction, the politics of knowledge, and other aspects of social relations.
Mills, C. Wright. 1958. The Power Elite. Domhoff, G. William. 1967. Who Rules America?. Skocpol, Theda. 1979. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. Piven, Frances Fox, and Richard Cloward. 1988. Why Americans Don't Vote. — 2000. Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want It That Way.
== Race and ethnicity ==
The sociology of race and ethnic relations refers to the study of social, political, and economic relations between races and ethnicities at all levels of society, encompassing subjects such as racism and residential segregation.
Du Bois, W. E. B. 1899. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. — 1903. The Souls of Black Folk. Myrdal, Gunnar. 1944. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy.
== Religion ==
The sociology of religion concerns the role of religion in society, including practices, historical backgrounds, developments, and universal themes. There is particular emphasis on the recurring role of religion in all societies and throughout recorded history.
Durkheim, Émile. 1912. Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse [The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life]. Berger, Peter L. 1967. The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion. — 1970. A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural.
== Theory ==
Sociological theories are complex theoretical and methodological frameworks used to analyze and explain objects of social study, which ultimately facilitate the organization of sociological knowledge.
=== Conflict Theory === Conflict theories, originally influenced by Marxist thought, are perspectives that see societies as defined through conflicts that are produced by inequality. Conflict theory emphasizes social conflict, as well as economic inequality, social inequality, oppression, and crime.
Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. 1848. The Communist Manifesto. Marx, Karl. 1859. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. Veblen, Thorstein. 1899. The Theory of the Leisure Class. — 1904. The Theory of Business Enterprise. Mills, C. Wright. 1951. White Collar: The American Middle Classes. — 1958. The Power Elite. — 1959. The Sociological Imagination. Sharp, Gene. 1985. Making Europe Unconquerable.
=== Rational Choice Theory === Rational choice theory models social behavior as the interaction of utility-maximizing individuals.
Coleman, James Samuel. 1990. Foundations of Social Theory. Olson, Mancur. 1971. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups.
=== Social Exchange Theory === Social Exchange Theory models social interaction as a series of exchanges between actors who give one another rewards and penalties, which impacts and guides future behavior. George Homans' version of exchange theory specifically argues that behaviorist stimulus-response principles can explain the emergence of complex social structures.
Blau, Peter. 1964. Exchange & Power in Social Life. Emerson, Richard. 1962. "Power-Dependence Theory." American Sociological Review 27(1):31-41. Homans, George C. 1958. "Social Behavior as Exchange." American Journal of Sociology 63(6):597-606. Homans, George C. 1961. Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms.
=== Social Network Analysis === Making use of network theory, social network analysis is structural approach to sociology that views norms and behaviors as embedded in chains of social relations.
Scott, John. 1991. Social Network Analysis: A Handbook. Provides a broad introduction to the subject. Wasserman, Stanley, and Katherine Faust. 1994. Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Presents thorough methodological coverage of the approach. Wellman, Barry, and S.D. Berkowitz, eds. 1988. Social Structures: A Network Approach. Provides a readable theoretical overview of the subject using many case studies.
=== Sociocybernetics ===
Sociocybernetics is the application of systems theory and cybernetics to sociology.