Classical Social Theory

Name: Classical Social Theory
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ISBN: 9780198781172

ISBN-10: 0198781172

ISBN-13: 9780198781172

Edition: 1997

Authors: Ian Craib

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Ian Craib compellingly shows the value of studying classic thinkers such as Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel alongside the more popular contemporary questions. Providing an account of the key ideas of classical social theory, Dr Craib establishes their relevance today, their enduring significance, and their contribution to understanding contemporary problems. Written in a direct, personal style, Classical Social Theory's thematic structure helps the reader compare the theorists systematically, and the book-by-book approach pays close attention to each thinker's key texts, quoting the most important passages and analysing them in a clear, straightforward way. Other student-friendly features…

Book details

List price: $119.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/3/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Chapter summaries


List of boxes



What's the point?



The main characters and the main ideas



Durkheim: the discovery of social facts



Karl Marx: the primacy of production



Max Weber: the primacy of social action



Georg Simmel: society as form and process - the outsider's view



Durkheim: drunk and orderly



Was Marx a Marxist?



The liberal Weber



Simmel: the social and the personal



Durkheim's organic analogy



Marx and the meaning of history



Weber as a tragic liberal: the rise of the West



Simmel: countering an overdose of history?



Conclusion: the framework of social theory


Dramatis personae


T. W. Adorno


Louis Althusser


Henri Bergson


Auguste Comte


Charles Darwin


Friedrich Engels


Ludwig Feuerbach


Michel Foucault


Sigmund Freud


Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


Immanuel Kant


Soren Kierkegaard


Vladimir Ilyich Lenin


Georg Lukacs


Karl Mannheim


Herbert Marcuse


George Herbert Mead


Maurice Merleau-Ponty


Robert Michels


John Stuart Mill


Friedrich Nietzsche


Talcott Parsons


David Ricardo


Heinrich Rickert


Claude-Henri de Rouvroy Saint-Simon


Jean-Paul Sartre


Adam Smith


Herbert Spencer


Ferdinand Tonnies


Leon Trotsky


Karl Wittfogel


Glossary


References


Index