Alternative Ways to Understanding Sociological Theory
Karl Marx: Life’s not fair, let’s all share!
Emile Durkheim: You get the ankles, I’ll get the wrists.
Max Weber: All work and no play…
Georg Simmel: I feel like I am ze Country Mouse in ze Zitty, Ja?
Jurgen Habermas: Why can’t we all just get along?
Talcott Parsons: I have a diagram that explains EVERYTHING!
Pierre Bourdieu: Kids, stay in school.
Michel Foucault: Er… donnez-moi le gagball.
Erving Goffman: Where’s that #$@%!! waiter?
Jean Baudrillard: Real=fake; life=Disneyland
Robert Merton: Sometimes things happen for bad reasons and sometimes we can’t see the reasons right away.
Herbert Blumer: It’s all in your mind.
Louis Althusser: It’s not in your mind.
C. Levi-Strauss: Myths are cool.
Amitai Etzioni: C’mon people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together, we’ve got to love one another right now
Clifford Geertz: Ooh, look, a cock fight! How Shakespearean!
Randall Collins: (sung) Let me entertain you…
Rational Choice Theory: Choose, or lose.
British Cultural Studies: It’s not so bad to spend time in front of the telly.
As a sociology student, yes, these actually work, and I just had a geekgasm (ok, not really, but still).
