Recommended Reading 
More electronic course readings and books in the Short Loan Collection are in the
Course Materials list.
- Anon. 1994. The Polity Reader in Social Theory, Cambridge: Polity Press. Library copies
- Anon. 1994. The Polity Reader in Cultural Theory, Cambridge: Polity Press. Library copies
- Peter Beilharz. 1992. Social Theory: A Guide to Central Thinkers, North Sydney: Allen & Unwin. Library copies
- Callinicos, Alex. 2007. Social Theory: A Historical Introduction, 2nd ed, Cambridge: Polity Press. Library copies
- Dirks, Nicholas B., Geoff Eley & Sherry B. Ortner. 1994. Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Library copies
- Elliott, Anthony. 1999. The Blackwell Reader in Contemporary Social Theory, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. Library copies
- Giddens, Anthony. 1971. Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber, Cambridge: University Press. Library copies
- Nicholson, Linda J. et al. 1990. Feminism/Postmodernism, New York: Routledge. Library copies
- Siedman, S. 1998. Contested Knowledge: Social Theory in the Postmodern Era,
2nd ed, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. Library copies
Reference Books
Reference books are an excellent place to start your research. You should then go on to read more in-depth journal articles and books.
- Harrington, Austin, Barbara Marshall and Hans-Peter Müller, eds. 2006. Encyclopedia of Social Theory. London: Routledge. Library copies
- Ritzer, George, ed. 2004. Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA.: SAGE. Library copies
- Ritzer, George, ed. 2007. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Malden: Blackwell. Library copies
- Ritzer, George and Barry Smart, eds. 2008. Handbook of Social Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA.: SAGE.
- Scott, John, and Gordon Marshall, eds. 2005. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. 3rd ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Library copies
- Craig, Edward, ed. 1998. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge. Library copies
Library Catalogue
Journals
These are some of the journals covering sociological theory.
Databases & Articles
To find more information on a topic, a good place to start is a database that indexes journals and books. More databases are listed on the Sociology resource pages.
Internet Sites
- Bad Subjects
For example, see issue 66, February 2004: Marx & Theory
- Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought
Links to Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault and Donna Harraway
- Dead Sociologists Index
Includes August Comte, Harriet Martineau, Georg Simmel, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber
- Sociology Online
A good place for the beginning Sociologists: contains introductions and overviews of the discipline, news and resources
- SocioSite
Links to over 80 social theorists, and well over 100 topic areas
- Theory.org
Theory with a pop culture slant, features the all-new Anthony Giddens, an expanded Queer Theory, Judith Butler and Antonio Gramsci
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