Soc 454: Social theory
Fall 2005


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General
from Project Censored (censored news stories with lots of source material)
Books, articles
Theory sites
News articles


 

Project Censored related news stories

These stories from Project Censored include a story line, an update, and numerous other web-based resources at the end of each. There are other stores that may be useful--check their archives.

 

Books, articles (remember, some of these relate to theory, others to empirical evidence)

  • P.W. Singer. 2005. Outsourcing war. Foreign Affairs (March/April). A preview is available online at www.foreignaffairs.org/20050301faessay84211/p-w-singer/outsourcing-war.html
  • Samuel Huntington, 1993. The clash of civilizations. Foreign Affairs (summer) (http://www.alamut.com/subj/economics/misc/clash.html)
  • Douglas Kellner. 2002. Globalization, terrorism and democracy: 9/11 and its aftermath. Online at http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/globalizationterroraftermath.pdf
  • Noam Chomsky interview (on Frontline): Iraq is a trial run. Transcript online at http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=3369
  • Immanuel Wallerstein. 1997. Islam, the West, and the rest of the world. Online at http://fbc.binghamton.edu/iwislam.htm
  • Barbara Ehrenreich. 2003. The roots of war. Alternet.org, April 10. Online at http://www.alternet.org/story/15604
  • Arundhati Roy. 2001. “New world disorder.” In These Times, October 26. Online at http://www.robert-fisk.com/arundhati_26oct_2001.htm.
  • Charles Tilly. 2001. Predictions. Online at http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/tilly.htm.
  • Karen Kwiatkowski. 2004. The new Pentagon Papers. Salon.com. Online at www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp_moveon/
  • Weiner, Eugene and Anita Weiner. 1990. The Martyr's Conviction: A Sociological Analysis. Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press.
  • Freamon, Bernard K. 2003. "Martyrdom, Suicide, and the Islamic Law of War: A Short Legal History" Fordham Int'l LJ 27:299.
  • Perrow, C. 1991. a Society of large organizations. Theory and Society 20:725-62.
  • Frances Fukuyama, 1993. The end of history and the last man. Perennial Publishing.
  • Michael Mann. 1986. The Sources of social power. Cambridge Univ. Press. (Mann is a neo-Weberian. I have this book if you’re interested)
  • Michael Mann. 2005. Incoherent empire. Verso.
  • Steven Lukes. 1971. Power: A radical view. (I have this as well—Lukes is a Marxist)
  • Immanuel Wallerstein. 1974. The Modern World System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World Economy in the Sixteenth Century. New York: Academic Press.
  • Marx, Engels, Robert C. Tucker (ed). 1978. The Marx-Engels reader. W.W. Norton. (I have this one, too)
  • Hooks, Gregory. Forging the Military-Industrial Complex: World War II's Battle of the Potomac. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
  • Marvin Harris. 1979. Cultural materialism. New York: Vintage books (I have this).
  • John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton. Banana Republicans (2004) and Weapons of Mass Deception (2003). Tarcher/Penguin.
  • Noam Chomsky. 2002. Understanding power: The indispensible Chomsky. Free Press.
  • Thomas Friedman. 2005. The World is Flat. Farar, Straus and Giroux.

  • Rebecca Moore and Fielding McGehee (editors). 1989. New Religious Movements, Mass Suicide, and People's Temple. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen.

 

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