Notes on the Editors |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction |
Precursors to Sociological Theory / Part I: |
Introduction to Part I |
Of the Natural Condition and the Commonwealth (from Leviathan) / Thomas Hobbes1: |
Of the Social Contract (from The Social Contract) / Jean-Jacques Rousseau2: |
What is Enlightenment? (from Immanuel Kant, The Philosophy of Kant) / Immanuel Kant3: |
The Wealth of Nations (from The Wealth of Nations) / Adam Smith4: |
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (from The Theory of Moral Sentiments) / 5: |
The Sociological Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville / Part II: |
Introduction to Part II |
The Old Régime and the French Revolution (from The Old Régime and the French Revolution) / Alexis de Tocqueville6: |
Influence of Democracy on the Feelings of the Americans (from Democracy in America) / 7: |
Tyranny of the Majority (from Democracy in America) / 8: |
The Sociological Theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels / Part III: |
Introduction to Part III |
The German Ideology (from The German Ideology, Part One) / Karl Marx ; Friedrich Engels9: |
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (from Collected Works, Volume 3) / 10: |
Manifesto of the Communist Party (from Collected Works, Volume 6) / 11: |
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (from Collected Works, Volume 11) / 12: |
Wage-Labour and Capital (from Karl Marx: Selected Writings) / 13: |
Classes (from Collected Works, Volume 37) / 14: |
The Sociological Theory of Emile Durkheim / Part IV: |
Introduction to Part IV |
The Rules of Sociological Method (from The Rules of Sociological Method) / Emile Durkheim15: |
The Division of Labor in Society (from The Division of Labor in Society) / 16: |
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (from Elementary Forms of the Religious Life) / 17: |
Suicide (from Suicide: A Study in Sociology) / 18: |
The Sociological Theory of Max Weber / Part V: |
Introduction to Part V |
"Objectivity" in Social Science (from The Methodology of the Social Sciences) / Max Weber19: |
Basic Sociological Terms (from The Theory of Social and Economic Organization) / 20: |
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (from Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism With Other Writings on the Rise of the West) / 21: |
The Distribution of Power within the Political Community: Class, Status, Party (from From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology) / 22: |
The Types of Legitimate Domination (from The Theory of Social and Economic Organization) / 23: |
Bureaucracy (from Max Weber: Essays in Sociology) / 24: |
Self and Society in Sociological Theory / Part VI: |
Introduction to Part VI |
The Self (from Mind, Self and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist) / George Herbert Mead25: |
The Stranger (from Georg Simmel: On Individuality and Social Forms) / Georg Simmel26: |
Group Expansion and the Development of Individuality (from Georg Simmel: On Individuality and Social Forms) / 27: |
The Dyad and the Triad (from The Sociology of Georg Simmel) / 28: |
Civilization and its Discontents (from Civilization and its Discontents) / Sigmund Freud29: |
The Souls of Black Folk (from The Souls of Black Folk) / W. E. B. Du Bois30: |
The Regulation of the Wishes (from The Unadjusted Girl) / William I. Thomas31: |
Critical Theory and the Sociology of Knowledge / Part VII: |
Introduction to Part VII |
Traditional and Critical Theory (from Critical Theory: Selected Essays) / Max Horkheimer32: |
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (from Illuminations) / Walter Benjamin33: |
The Culture Industry (from The Dialectic of Enlightenment) / Theodor W. Adorno34: |
One-Dimensional Man (from One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society) / Herbert Marcuse35: |
Structural-Functional Analysis / Part VIII: |
Introduction to Part VIII |
The Position of Sociological Theory (from The Position of Sociological Theory) / Talcott Parsons36: |
An Outline of the Social System (from Theories of Society) / 37: |
Manifest and Latent Functions (from Social Theory and Social Structure) / Robert K. Merton38: |
On Sociological Theories of the Middle Range (from Social Theory and Social Structure) / 39: |
Index |