Social Theory: The Multicultural, Global, and Classic Readings

For nearly a quarter-century, Charles Lemert has shared his love of social theory, and the questions it explores, in this collection of readings. With 140 selections that begin in the nineteenth century and end in 2015, Social Theory charts the long arc of the development of the field. This edition retains classic texts by Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and W.E.B. Du Bois and writings of major contemporary figures like Audre Lorde and Patricia Hill Collins, while adding pieces from Harriet Martineau, Friedrich Nietzsche, Kimberly Williams Crenshaw, Thomas Piketty, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, among others. Revised and updated with a new section exploring social theory at the limits of the social, Lemert's Social Theory remains essential reading.

• Contested Knowledge: Social Theory Today
• Sociological Theory
• Democracy in America (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
• The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family
• Theory for the Working Sociologist
• Slow Food Nation: Why our Food Should be Good, Clean, and Fair
• Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law)
• Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, 2nd Edition with an Update a Decade Later
• Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge Classics) (Volume 138)
• Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics