Social theory is my weakest area of sociology. I have no idea how I aced my undergraduate course in it, but I did. I’m going to have to take 2 theory classes (one classical and one contemporary) as a graduate student. Frick. Weber is perhaps the classical theorist I know best. The iron cage, bureaucracy and rationality are all concepts I can get behind and understand fairly well. But contemporary theory freaks me the fuck out. If I have to read Zygmunt Bauman again, I’ll probably kill myself or die trying. Liquid modernity and postmodernity are concepts I never wanted to hear again. So it will most likely be the case that I’ll have to deal with them in a very significant way. I don’t wanna.