Required Reading Book

	Canon and Anti-Canon for a Fragmented Discipline	3
	Best-Sellers by American Sociologists: An Exploratory Study	19
	On Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions - How to Become a Dominant American Social Scientist: The Case of Theda Skocpol	31
	On Charles Tilly, From Mobilization to Revolution - Historicization of Protest as a Route to General Theory: Stepping Back to Move Forward	39
	On Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish - Discipline and Punish: The Birth of a Postmodern Middle-Range	47
	On Charles Murray, Losing Ground - Charles Murray: Losing Ground, Gaining Power	55
	On Norman H. Nie, Dale H. Bent, and C. Hadlai Hull, SPSS - Doing It Ourselves	71
	On Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Culture - Geertz's Ambiguous Legacy	79
	On Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice - Sociology's Other Poststructuralism	85
	On Gary Becker, A Treatise on the Family Gary Becker on the Family: His Genius, Impact, and Blind Spots	95
	On Arlie Hochschild, The Managed Heart - Emotion Management as Emotional Labor	113
	On David Featherman and Robert Hauser, Opportunity and Change - Models of Influence	121
	On Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital - A Classic of Its Time	135
	On Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Men and Women of the Corporation - What's Gender Got to Do with It?	141
	On Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System - Promethean Sociology	149
	On William J. Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race - What's Race Got to Do with It?	157
	On Edward Said, Orientalism - Empire and Knowledge: More Troubles, New Opportunities for Sociology	167
	On Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering - The Gendering of Social Theory: Sociology and Its Discontents	173
	On Boston's Women's Health Book Collective, Our Bodies, Ourselves - Feminist Subversions	181
	Sociological Politics and Contemporary Sociology's Ten Most Influential Books	189
	Taking the List as It Stands: What Does It Say about Sociology Today?	197
	Who's In? Who's Out?	207
	Contributors' Notes	215