耶鲁大学政治与历史社会学

博士资格考阅读清单

Classics

a.Marx, 18th Brumaire

b.Tocqueville, Ancient Regime and the French Revolution

c.Idem, Democracy in America

d.Weber, “The Types of Legitimate Domination”; “Class, Status, Party”

e.Gramsci, Prison Notebooks

f.Michels, Iron Law of Oligarchy

g.DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk

h.C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite

i.Seymour Martin Lipset, Political Man

j.Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

k.Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish

l.Pierre Bourdieu, “Classification Struggles”

States

a.Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process

b.Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States

c.Julia Adams, The Familial State

d.Philip Gorski, The Disciplinary Revolution

Revolutions

a.Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions

b.Jack Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World

c.Robert Darnton, The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution

d.William Sewell, “Historical Events as Transformations of Structure”

Empires

a.Karen Barkey, Empire of Difference

b.George Steinmetz, The Devil’s Handwriting

c.Carl Schmitt, The Nomos of the Earth

d.Julian Go, Patterns of Empire

 Democratization

a.Rueschemeyer, Stephens and Stephens, Capitalist Development and 

Democracy.

b.Moore, Social Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship

c.Linz and Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition

d.Inglehart and Weizel, Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy.

Capitalism

a.Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System, vol. 1.

b.Douglass North, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic 

Performance.

c.Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence

d.Eyal, Szelenyi, and Townsley, Making Capitalist Without Capitalists

e.The Brenner Debate

f.Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic

Welfare States

a.Esping-Andersen, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

b.Jill Quadagno, The Color of Welfare

c.O’Connor, Orloff and Shaver, States, Markets, Families

d.Chad Goldberg, Citizens and Paupers

 Collective Action and

Social Movements

a.McAdam, Political Process and Black Insurgency

b.Mancur Olsen, The Logic of Collective Action

c.James Jasper, The Art of Moral Protest

d.Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement

Civil Society and

Political Culture

a.Jeffrey Alexander, The Civil Sphere

b.Laclau and Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy

c.Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone

d.Robert Bellah et al, Habits of the Heart