A macrosociology reader, SOCIOLOGICAL WORLDS:COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL READINGS
ON SOCIETY, edited by Stephen Sanderson, has just been published by Roxbury
Publishing Co. Complimentary copies for classroom consideration may be ordered
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Contents:
PART I: PREINDUSTRIAL AND PRECAPITALIST SOCIETIES
1. Marshall Sahlins, "The original affluent society."
2. Allen Johnson, "Horticulturalists: economic behavior in tribes."
3. Eric Wolf, "Peasants."
4. Frances Berdan, "Trade and markets in precapitalist states."
PART II: CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM, AND INDUSTRIALISM
5. Immanuel Wallerstein, "The rise and future demise of the world capitalist
system: concepts for comparative analysis."
6. Thomas D. Hall, "Incorporation in the world system."
7. Charles Tilly, "Protoindustrialization in Europe."
8. Eric Wolf, "The emergence and expansion of industrial capitalism."
9. Christopher Chase-Dunn, "Socialist states in the capitalist world-economy."
10. Krishan Kumar, "The revolutions of 1989: socialism, capitalism, and
democracy."
PART III: DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT
11. W.W. Rostow, "The stages of economic growth.
12. Andre Gunder Frank, "The development of underdevelopment."
13. Immanuel Wallerstein, "Three paths of upward mobility within the
capitalist world-economy."
14. Bruce Cumings, "The origins and development of the Northeast Asian
political economy."
PART IV: STRATIFICATION SYSTEMS
15. Rae Lesser Blumberg, "The evolution of social stratification."
16. William and Arline McCord, "Social stratification in agrarian societies."
17. Maurice Zeitlin, "Corporate ownership and control: the large corporation
and the capitalist class."
18. Raymond Murphy, "The theory of social closure."
PART V: POLITICAL SYSTEMS
19. Marshall Sahlins, "Rich man, poor man, big man, chief: political types
in Melanesia and Polynesia."
20. Timothy Earle, "Property rights and the evolution of chiefdoms."
21. Marvin Harris, "The origin of pristine states."
22. Charles Tilly, "The formation of European states, AD 990-1990."
23. Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne Huber Stephens, and John D. Stephens,
"Capitalist development and democracy."
24. Jack A. Goldstone, "State breakdowns in the early modern world."
PART VI: RACE AND ETHNICITY
25. Eric Williams, "Capitalism and slavery."
26. Pierre L. van den Berghe, "A typology of race relations."
27. Siyabonga W. Ndabezitha and Stephen K. Sanderson, "The origins of
apartheid in South Africa."
28. Anthony D. Smith, "The ethnic revival in the modern world."
PART VII: GENDER RELATIONS
29. M. Kay Martin and Barbara Voorhies, "The status of women in agrarian
societies."
30. Janet Thomas, "Women and capitalism: oppression or emancipation?"
31. Rae Lesser Blumberg, "A general theory of gender stratification."
PART VIII: EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS
32. Randall Collins, "Some comparative principles of educational
stratification."
33. John Boli, Francisco O. Ramirez, and John W. Meyer, "Explaining the
origins and expansion of mass education."
34. Ronald Dore, "Educational qualificationism and the late-development
effect."