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Classical Sociological Theory, Seventh Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought from the Enlightenment roots of theory through the early 20th Century. The integration of key theories with biographical sketches of theorists and the requisite historical and intellectual context helps students to better understand the original works of classical authors as well as to compare and contrast classical theories.
Contents
PART I. INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY1. A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early YearsIntroductionSocial Forces in the Development of Sociological TheoryIntellectual Forces and the Rise of Sociological TheoryThe Development of French SociologyThe Development of German SociologyThe Origins of British SociologyThe Key Figure in Early Italian SociologyTurn-of-the-Century Developments in European MarxismThe Contemporary Relevance of Classical Sociological Theory2. A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later YearsEarly American Sociological TheorySociological Theory to MidcenturySociological Theory from MidcenturyLate Twentieth-Century Developments in Sociological TheoryTheories of Modernity and PostmodernitySocial Theory in the Twenty-First CenturyPART II . CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY3. Alexis de TocquevilleComparative StudyAmerican PoliticsThe Sociology in Tocqueville's WorkThe Key Sociological Problem(s)Freedom, Democracy, and SocialismColonialismContemporary Applications4. Auguste ComteComte's Profound AmbitionsComte's SociologyTheory and PracticeCriticisms and Contributions5. Herbert SpencerSpencer and ComteGeneral Theoretical PrinciplesSociologyThe Evolution of SocietyEthics and PoliticsCriticisms and Contemporary Applications6. Karl MarxIntroductionThe DialecticDialectical MethodHuman PotentialAlienationThe Structures of Capitalist SocietyMaterialist Conception of HistoryCultural Aspects of Capitalist SocietyMarx's Economics: A Case StudyCommunismCriticismsContemporary Applications7. Emile DurkheimIntroductionSocial FactsThe Division of Labor in SocietySuicideThe Elementary Forms of Religious LifeMoral Education and Social ReformCriticismsContemporary Applications8. Max WeberMethodologySubstantive SociologyCriticismsContemporary Applications9. Georg SimmelPrimary ConcernsIndividual Consciousness and IndividualitySocial Interaction ("Association")Social Structures and WorldsObjective CultureThe Philosophy of MoneySecrecy: A Case Study in Simmel's SociologyCriticismsContemporary Applications10. Early Women Sociologists and Classical Sociological Theory: 1830-1930Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)Jane Addams (1860-1935) and the Chicago Women's SchoolAnna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) and Ida Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)Marianne Schnitger Weber (1870-1954)Beatrice Potter Webb (1858-1943)11. W. E. B. Du BoisIntellectual InfluencesStudying Race Scientifically: The Philadelphia NegroTheoretical ContributionsEconomicsKarl Marx, Socialism, and CommunismContemporary Applications12. Thorstein VeblenIntellectual InfluencesBasic PremisesSubstantive IssuesCriticisms and Contemporary Applications13. Joseph SchumpeterCreative DestructionSchumpeter's Broader Economic TheoryToward a More Dynamic Theory of the EconomySchumpeter's SociologyThe FutureContemporary Applications14. Karl MannheimThe Sociology of KnowledgeIdeology and UtopiaRationality and the Irrationality of the TimesCriticisms and Contemporary Applications15. George Herbert MeadIntellectual RootsThe Priority of the SocialThe ActMental Processes and the MindSelfSocietyCriticisms and Contemporary Applications16. Alfred SchutzThe Ideas of Edmund HusserlScience and the Social WorldTypifications and RecipesThe Life-WorldIntersubjectivityRealms of the Social WorldConsciousness, Meanings, and MotivesCriticisms and Contemporary Applications17. Talcott ParsonsParsons's Integrative EffortsGeneral PrinciplesThe Action SystemChange and Dynamism in Parsonsian TheoryCriticisms and Contemporary Applications
