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Preface | |
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The Sources of Human Misery: Karl Marx and the Centrality of Social Class | |
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Toward Permanent Exile | |
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Responses to Industrialism | |
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The Material Basis of Social Life | |
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A Revolutionary Socialist | |
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The Communist Manifesto | |
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Capital and Surplus Labor | |
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The Power of Ideology | |
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Summary | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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References | |
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The Problem of Social Order: Emile Durkheim and Morality in Modern Societies | |
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From Small-Town France to Paris | |
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Political and Social Problems in France | |
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The Moral Basis of Social Life | |
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The Scientific Comparison of Societies | |
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The Division of Labor in Society | |
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Suicide as Social Behavior | |
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Individualism and Community Ties | |
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Summary | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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References | |
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A Prophet of Doom: Max Weber and the Spread of Rationality | |
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A Tormented Family Life | |
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Germany: A Nation of Extremes | |
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Protestantism and the Emergence of Capitalism | |
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Sources of Social Inequality | |
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Rationality and Bureaucracies | |
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Power and Authority | |
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Rationality in Contemporary Society | |
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Summary | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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References | |
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Impressions of Everyday Life: Georg Simmel and Forms of Social Interaction | |
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The Attractions of City Life | |
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Jewish Life in Germany | |
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Sociology and Social Forms | |
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Forms of Domination and Conflict | |
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The Consequences of Group Size | |
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Money in Modern Social Life | |
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Simmel's Legacy | |
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Summary | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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References | |
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Uniting Self and Society: George Herbert Mead and Symbolic Interaction | |
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Religious Goals Transformed into Social Action | |
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Threats to American Values: Chicago and the Growth of Cities | |
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Combining Learning and Problem Solving | |
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A Social Version of Behaviorism | |
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Human Thinking Comes from Social Interaction | |
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The Emergence of the Social Self | |
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Symbolic Interactionism | |
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Summary | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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References | |
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W. E. B. Du Bois and the Tragedy of Race in America | |
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Preparing for his Life's Work | |
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The Failure of Reconstruction | |
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The Philadelphia Negro | |
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The Souls of Black Folk | |
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Race, Class, and Africa | |
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Legacy as a Social Theorist | |
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Summary | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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References | |
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Index | |