A Critical Introduction to Sociology: Modernity, Colonialism, Nation-Building, and Post-Modernity

An Introduction to Critical Sociology: From Modernity to Postmodernity
Contents
List of Boxes
Preface
PART ONE: Introducing Critical Sociology
	CHAPTER ONE: Sociology, Discourse, and Public Philosophy
		A Brief Overview of Sociology
		Sociology and Discourse
		Sociology as a Discourse of “Seeing the General in the Particular” and “the Strange in the Familiar”
		Sociology as a Discourse of Debunking Commonsense Knowledge: questioning hegemonic ideologies
		Sociology as a Discourse of Public Philosophy
	CHAPTER TWO: Sociological Imagination and Critical Sociology
		The Sociological Imagination and Public Philosophy
		‘Discursive Sociological Knowledge’ and Quality of Mind
		The Sociological Imagination Framework
		The Sociological Imagination, Ethnocentrism, and False-Consciousness
		The Sociological Imagination, Public Philosophy, and Dialectical Analysis
		Critical Sociology Discourse
	PART ONE: Conclusion and Review Questions
		Chapters Review Questions
		Critical Thinking Questions
PART TWO: Sociology, Sociological Theories, Controversies, and Debates
	Chapter Three Sociology: a multi-facetted field
		Sociology as a “Scientific Discipline”
		Sociology as a Multi- and Trans-Disciplinary Field: what do sociologists do?
		Sociology, Debates, Controversies, Paradigms, and Theories
		Becoming a Theorist: why is theory important?
	CHAPTER FOUR: Sociology, Debates, and Methods
		Agency and Structure Debate: social constructionism versus structuralism views
		Macro- and Micro-Sociology Debate
		Quantitative and Qualitative Sociology
		Going Beyond Agency versus Social Structure, Objective versus Subjective, and Macro- versus Micro-Sociology Debates
	PART TWO: Conclusion and Review Questions
		Chapters Review Questions
		Critical Thinking Questions
PART THREE: From Premodernity to Modernity
	CHAPTER FIVE: Sociological Field, Context, and History
		Sociology as a Field: contextualizing the emerging sociological debates and controversies
		History and Sociology: an overview
	CHAPTER SIX: Sociology and the Rise of Modern Societies
		From Premodernity to Modernity
	PART THREE: Conclusion and Review Questions
		Chapters Review Questions
		Critical Thinking Questions
PART FOUR: Modernity and the Birth ofSociology
	Chapter Seven: Sociology, Modernity, and Change
		Three Features of Modernity and New Modern Institutions
		Time and Space Separation (Distanciation): the chasm between modern and premodern eras
		Disembedding of Social Systems: the second source of dynamism in modernity
	Chapter Eight: Modernity, Expert Systems, and Modernism
		Two Mechanisms of Disembedding: symbolic tokens and expert systems
		Modernism
	PART FOUR: Conclusion and Review Questions
		Chapters Review Questions
		Critical Thinking Questions
PART FIVE: Modernity, Historical Epochs, Nation-States, and Construction of Identity
	CHAPTER NINE: Modernity, the Enlightenment, Society, and Nation-States
		Modernity and Historical Epochs
		The Renaissance (1300–1600)
		The Enlightenment (1685–1815)
		Reactions to the Enlightenment
		Society in Modernity
		Modern Nation-States
		Characteristics of Modern Societies
	Chapter Ten: Identity and the Self in Modernity
		Symbolic Interactionism: George Herbert Mead and Charles Horton Cooley
		George Herbert Mead
		Mead and Cooley: the concept of the looking-glass self
		Play and Game Stages in Child Development and the Development of the Self
		Components of the self: the “I” and “Me”
	PART FIVE: Conclusion and Review Questions
		Chapters Review Questions
		Critical Thinking Questions
PART SIX: Industrialization, Political Revolutions, Urbanization, Capitalism, Militarization, and Modernity
	CHAPTER ELEVEN: Sociology and Modern Technological, Social, and Economic Changes
		From Preindustrial to Industrial Societies
	CHAPTER TWELVE: Sociology and the Rise of Capitalism
		Capitalism: an overview
		Mercantilism-Merchant Capitalism (1500–1770s)
		Industrial Capitalism (1770s–1860s)
		Industrial Capitalism: a historical-theoretical analysis
		Corporate Industrial Capitalism (1860s–1930s)
		Taylorism and Fordism
		Taylorism and Fordism: what are their differences and similarities?
		The Great Depression and the New Deal: from laissez-faire economy to planned economy
	CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Welfare State, Neoliberalism, and Postindustrialism
		Keynesian State/Corporate Capitalism (1930s–1970s): the era of intense social, cultural, economic, and political changes
		Militarization of the World: military industrial complex, educational security state, national security state, and industrial-consumer society
		The Rise of the Welfare State
		Neoliberal/Corporate Capitalism (1960s-present)
		Neoliberalism
		Post-Fordism and Postindustrialism
		Capitalist Stages: similarities and shared characteristics
	PART SIX: Conclusion and Review Questions
		Chapters Review Questions
		Critical Thinking Questions
PART SEVEN: Capitalism, the State, Nation-States, Surveillance, and Violence
	Chapter Fourteen: Sociology, Power Structure, and Canada
		Power and Politics
		Types of Resources and Three Models of Power
		Power: its forms and levels
		Social and Economic Power and Power Structure Models
		Analysis of Elite Groups in Canada
		Wallace Clement and His Analysis of Elites
		William Carroll and His Analysis of Elite Groups
		States and Types of Government
	CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Theory, the State, and Sociology: An Introductory Reflection
		Two Theoretical Perspectives: the state in modernity
		Structural Functionalism and the State
		Marxism and the State
	CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Nation-States, Violence, and Imagined Identities
		The Rise of Nation-States
		The European World Prior to the Establishment of Nation-States
		Modern Nation-States: definition and characteristics
		Modern Nation-States and Surveillance
		Modern Nation-States and Violence
		Violence, Genocide, and Nation-States in Modernity
		Nation-States and Constructions of Imagined Identities and Invented Traditions
		Construction of National Identity: the discourse of nationalism
		National Identity and the Discourse of Binary Polarization
	PART SEVEN: Conclusion and Review Questions
		Chapters Review Questions
		Critical Thinking Questions
PART EIGHT: Colonialism, Imperialism, and Postcolonial Relations
	CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Colonialism, Imperialism, and Postcolonial Relations
		Conceptualizing Colonialism, Imperialism, and Postcolonialism
		Colonialism, “Race”, and Racism
		Racialization, Whiteness, and Domination: from colonial conceptions of “race” to different forms of contemporary racism
		Colonialism, Modernity, and Racial Discourses
		Monogenetic and Polygenetic Theories of Racial Differences: scientific racism, eugenicism, and the discourse of whiteness
		Colonizing Aboriginal Peoples in North America
		Imperialism
		Neocolonialism, Internal Colonialism, and Postcolonialism
		Orientalism: the discourse of western hegemony and domination
	CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Colonialism, Domination, and Resistance
		Colonial and Imperialist Expansions: two distinct periods
		The First Period
		The Second Period: modern consequences of colonialism and imperialism
		Colonialism and Domination: assimilation, deculturalization, segregation, and educational denial
		Anticolonial Resistance and Neocolonialism: postcolonialism
	CHAPTER NINETEEN: Theory, Capitalist Formation, and Economic and Cultural Oppressions
		Theorizing the Effects of Colonialism, Imperialism, and Capitalist Relations: modernization, dependency, and world-system theories
		Modernization Theory
		Dependency Theory
		The Modern World-System Theory
	CHAPTER TWENTY:Canada, the Nation-Building Process, and Aboriginal Others
		Colonialism, Empire, Racism, and Nation-Building: the case of Canada
		Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism, Internal Colonialism, and Schooling: total institutions and resocialization
		CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Immigration, Multiculturalism, and the Canadian Nation-State
		Nation-Building, Immigration, and Multiculturalism: the case of Canada
		Multiculturalism in Canada
		Four Different Meanings of Multiculturalism: a recap
		The Four Principles and Three Phases of Multiculturalism
		Problems Associated with Multiculturalism
		Immigration, State Policy, and Discrimination: a historicalsociological overview
	PART EIGHT: Conclusion and Review Questions
		Chapters Review Questions
		Critical Thinking Questions
PART NINE: Globalization, Postindustrialism, and Postmodernity
	CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Modernity and Globalization
		Sociology as a Discourse to Understand Globalization
		Distinguishing between Globalism and Globalization
		Globalization from Above and Globalization from Below
		Globalization: economic, cultural, political, and social perspectives
		Supporters of Globalization
		Detractors of Globalization
	CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Ideology, Globalization, and the Neoliberal Framework
		The Ideology of Globalization: the neoliberal discourse
		Characteristics of Neoliberalism
		Are Neoliberal Policies Hegemonic?
	CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Postindustrial Societies and Changes from Industrialism
		From Industrialism to Postindustrialism
		Postindustrialism, Postindustrial Society, and Information Society
	CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Postmodernism: A critique of modernity
		A Critical Summary
	PART NINE: Conclusion and Review Questions
		Chapters Review Questions
		Critical Thinking Questions
Conclusion
References & Bibliography