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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Our Approach | |
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Modernization | |
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Post-Modern Relevance | |
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The Supporting Cast | |
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Endnotes | |
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Harriet Martineau | |
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Biography | |
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American Society | |
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How to Observe | |
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The Meaning of Cell Phone Use Among Poor Jamaicans | |
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In the Sick Room | |
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On Women | |
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Education and the Gender Gap in Income | |
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Marriage and Divorce | |
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Endnotes | |
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Karl Marx (1): Philosophical Analyses | |
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Biography | |
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Hegel and the Dialectic | |
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Religion | |
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Alienation and Private Property | |
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Money and Credit | |
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Alienation Among Service Workers | |
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Social Classes | |
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The Proletariat Revolution | |
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Class Position and Class Consciousness | |
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The Failure of Soviet Communism | |
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Endnotes | |
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Karl Marx (2): Economic Analyses | |
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Base and Superstructure | |
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The Value of Commodities | |
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The Circulation of Commodities | |
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The Fetishism of Commodities | |
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The Commodification Thesis | |
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Commodities and Identities | |
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The Accumulation of Capital | |
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The Army of the Unemployed | |
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Unemployment and Pretrial Incarceration | |
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Purchasing Labor-Power | |
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Surplus Value and Surplus Profit | |
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Crisis and Revolution | |
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Endnotes | |
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Max Weber (1): Conceptual Methodology | |
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Understanding Social Action | |
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Ideal Types | |
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Value Free | |
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Legitimacy and Validity | |
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Legitimacy and Permanence Among Hospitals | |
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Types of Legitimacy | |
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Charismatic Leadership During Crises | |
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Rational-Legal Bureaucracy | |
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Endnotes | |
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Max Weber (2): On Social Organization | |
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | |
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Are Protestants' and Catholics' Community Ties Still Different? | |
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The Decline of Households | |
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City Life | |
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City Size, Culture, and Helping Strangers | |
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Stratification | |
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The Different Effects of Class and Status | |
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Endnotes | |
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Emile Durkheim (1): Division of Labor and Elementary Religion | |
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Biography | |
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The Division of Labor | |
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Solidarity and the Collective Conscience | |
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The Threat of Physical Harm as a Deterrent to Crime | |
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Economic Hegemony | |
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Family Inheritance Patterns | |
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Anomie | |
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Elementary Religion | |
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Sacred and Profane | |
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The Profane Body and the Sacred Soul | |
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Collective Representations | |
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Collective Effervescence | |
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Social Emergence | |
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Endnotes | |
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Emile Durkheim (2): Rules and Suicide | |
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How to Observe | |
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Defining Social Facts | |
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Explaining Social Facts | |
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The Function of Keeping Women Out of War | |
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Functional Integration | |
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Defining Suicide as a Social Fact | |
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Social Integration and the Suicide Rate | |
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Social Fact or Social Construction? | |
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Marital Status and Gender | |
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Types of Suicide | |
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Endnotes | |
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Georg Simmel | |
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Biography | |
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Sociology as the Study of Form | |
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To Separate Others or to Unite Them | |
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The Stranger | |
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The Targets of Hate Groups as Strangers | |
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Webs of Affiliation | |
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Secrecy | |
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Women in Secret, Sexual Relationships | |
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Money | |
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Endnotes | |
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Index | |