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Classical Sociological Theory

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ISBN-10: 0470655674

ISBN-13: 9780470655672

Edition: 3rd 2012

Authors: Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff, Indermohan Virk

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Building on the success of the previous editions, this book presents an updated and comprehensive collection of substantial primary-source texts that represent a definitive guide to the roots of sociology. With new readings, an increased emphasis on the Enlightenment, a new section on de Tocqueville, and suggestions for further reading, the reader traces the evolution of social science from its undisciplined beginnings to its current guideposts and reference points in contemporary sociological debate.This reader explores the pioneering minds of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, the works of early sociologists Mead, Simmel, Freud, and Du Bois and the major works and theoretical perspectives of the…    
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List price: $29.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 2/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 574
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.112
Language: English

Notes on the Editors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Precursors to Sociological Theory
Introduction to Part I
Of the Natural Condition and the Commonwealth (from Leviathan)
Of the Social Contract (from The Social Contract)
What is Enlightenment? (from Immanuel Kant, The Philosophy of Kant)
The Wealth of Nations (from The Wealth of Nations)
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (from The Theory of Moral Sentiments)
The Sociological Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville
Introduction to Part II
The Old R�gime and the French Revolution (from The Old R�gime and the French Revolution)
Influence of Democracy on the Feelings of the Americans (from Democracy in America)
Tyranny of the Majority (from Democracy in America)
The Sociological Theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Introduction to Part III
The German Ideology (from The German Ideology, Part One)
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (from Collected Works, Volume 3)
Manifesto of the Communist Party (from Collected Works, Volume 6)
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (from Collected Works, Volume 11)
Wage-Labour and Capital (from Karl Marx: Selected Writings)
Classes (from Collected Works, Volume 37)
The Sociological Theory of Emile Durkheim
Introduction to Part IV
The Rules of Sociological Method (from The Rules of Sociological Method)
The Division of Labor in Society (from The Division of Labor in Society)
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (from Elementary Forms of the Religious Life)
Suicide (from Suicide: A Study in Sociology)
The Sociological Theory of Max Weber
Introduction to Part V
"Objectivity" in Social Science (from The Methodology of the Social Sciences)
Basic Sociological Terms (from The Theory of Social and Economic Organization)
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)
The Distribution of Power within the Political Community: Class, Status, Party (from From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology)
The Types of Legitimate Domination (from The Theory of Social and Economic Organization)
Bureaucracy (from Max Weber: Essays in Sociology)
Self and Society in Sociological Theory
Introduction to Part VI
The Self (from Mind, Self and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist)
The Stranger (from Georg Simmel: On Individuality and Social Forms)
Group Expansion and the Development of Individuality (from Georg Simmel: On Individuality and Social Forms)
The Dyad and the Triad (from The Sociology of Georg Simmel)
Civilization and its Discontents (from Civilization and its Discontents)
The Souls of Black Folk (from The Souls of Black Folk)
The Regulation of the Wishes (from The Unadjusted Girl)
Critical Theory and the Sociology of Knowledge
Introduction to Part VII
Traditional and Critical Theory (from Critical Theory: Selected Essays)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (from Illuminations)
The Culture Industry (from The Dialectic of Enlightenment)
One-Dimensional Man (from One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society)
Structural-Functional Analysis
Introduction to Part VIII
The Position of Sociological Theory (from The Position of Sociological Theory)
An Outline of the Social System (from Theories of Society)
Manifest and Latent Functions (from Social Theory and Social Structure)
On Sociological Theories of the Middle Range (from Social Theory and Social Structure)
Index