The Development of Sociological Theory

PART I. THE NATURE, STRUCTURE, AND TYPES OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY On Intellectual Craftsmanship - C. Wright Mills The Importance of General Theory - Talcott Parsons Middle-Range Theories - Robert K. Merton Theory as Explanation - George C. Homans The Oversocialized View of Human Nature - Dennis H. Wrong The Theoretical Infrastructure - Alvin W. Gouldner PART II. THE ENLIGHTENMENT ROOTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY The Problem of Order - Thomas Hobbes The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Laws, Mores, and Manners - Charles de Montesquieu PART III. PROTOSOCIOLOGY An Unjust Social Order - Henri de Saint-Simon The Hierarchical Structure of Society - Henri de Saint-Simon Order and Progress - Auguste Comte Law of the Three Stages - Auguste Comte Social Progress - Herbert Spencer The Evolution of Society - Herbert Spencer The General Happiness - Harriet Martineau Folkways and Mores - William Graham Sumner In-Groups, Out-Groups, and Ethnocentrism - William Graham Sumner PART IV. THE CLASSICAL TRADITION Commodity Fetishism - Karl Marx Alienated Labor - Karl Marx Historical Materialism - Karl Marx Mechanical and Organic Solidarity - Emile Durkheim Types of Suicide - Emile Durkheim Social Facts - Emile Durkheim The Rationalism of Western Civilization - Max Weber The Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber Types of Authority - Max Weber The Stranger - Georg Simmel Dyad and Triad - Georg Simmel The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel PART V. THE INTERSTITIAL STATEMENTS The Ruling Class - Gaetano Mosca The Circulation of the Elites - Vilfredo Pareto The Iron Law of Oligarchy - Robert Michels The Crowd Mind - Gustave Le Bon The Laws of Imitation - Gabriel Tarde The Herd Instinct - Sigmund Freud The Conscience of Society - Sigmund Freud Conspicuous Consumption - Thorstein Veblen Cultural Lag - William F. Ogburn Ideational, Sensate, and Idealistic Cultures - Pitirim A. Sorokin Imminent Sociocultural Change - Pitirim A. Sorokin The Pattern Variables - Talcott Parsons The Social System - Talcott Parsons The AGIL Schema - Talcott Parsons Manifest and Latent Functions - Robert K. Merton Social Structure and Anomie - Robert K. Merton The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - Robert K. Merton Structural Integration and Change - Hans H. Gerth Character and Conformity - David Riesman PART VII. THE CRITICAL EDGE Social Structures, Social Conflicts, and Safety-Valve Institutions - Lewis A. Coser Class Conflict and Structural Change - Ralf Dahrendorf The Sociology of Knowledge - Karl Mannheim Hegemony - Antonio Gramsci The Reification of Consciousness - Georg Lukacs Critical Theory - Max Horkheimer The Culture Industry - Theodor W. Adorno The Designer as Cultural Worker - C. Wright Mills PART VIII. THE SELF, INTERACTIONS, AND EXCHANGES The Definition of the Situation - W. I. Thomas Self and Society - George Herbert Mead The Looking-Glass Self - Charles Horton Cooley Primary Groups - Charles Horton Cooley Performances in Everyday Life - Erving Goffman Managing Stigma - Erving Goffman The Meaningfully Produced Social World - Alfred Schuetz Society as Objective Reality - Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann Ethnomethodology - Harold Garfinkel Obligatory Exchange - Marcel Mauss Social Behavior as Exchange - George C. Homans Reciprocity, Power Imbalance, and Dialectical Change - Peter M. Blau Individual Interests and Systems of Exchange - James S. Coleman PART IX. COMMUNITY AND CIVIL SOCIETY Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft - Ferdinand Toennies The Quest for Community - Robert A. Nisbet Civil Religion in America - Robert N. Bellah A Normative Theory of Moral Community - Philip Selznick Communitarianism - Amitai Etzioni The Civilizing Process - Norbert Elias PART X. RACE AND GENDER The Veil and Double Consciousness - W. E. B. Du Bois The Talented Tenth - W. E. B. Du Bois The Economic Status of Women - Charlotte Perkins Gilman Feminist Standpoint Theory - Dorothy E. Smith Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins Performative Theory of Gender Acts - Judith Butler PART XI. SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS Autopoietic Systems - Niklas Luhmann Lifeworld and Social System - Juergen Habermas World-Systems Analysis - Immanuel Wallerstein The Network Society - Manuel Castells Actor-Network-Theory - Bruno Latour PART XII. LATE MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITY Sociological Intervention - Alain Touraine Structuration Theory - Anthony Giddens Ontological Security, Existential Anxiety, and Self-Identity - Anthony Giddens Habitus - Pierre Bourdieu The Risk Society - Ulrich Beck Liquid Modernity - Zygmunt Bauman Global Modernities - Roland Robertson The Postmodern Condition - Jean-Francois Lyotard Hyperreality - Jean Baudrillard