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Notes on the Editors ix
Acknowledgments xi
General Introduction 1
Part I Precursors to Sociological Theory 25
Introduction to Part I 27
1 Of the Natural Condition and the Commonwealth (fromLeviathan) 36
Thomas Hobbes
2 Of the Social Contract (fromThe Social Contract) 44
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3 What is Enlightenment? (fromImmanuel Kant,The Philosophy of Kant) 55
Immanuel Kant
4 The Wealth of Nations (fromThe Wealth of Nations) 60
Adam Smith
Part II Liberal Theories of Social Order 71
Introduction to Part II 73
5 Influence of Democracy on the Feelings of the Americans (fromDemocracy in America) 83
Alexis de Tocqueville
6 Tyranny of the Majority (fromDemocracy in America) 102
Alexis de Tocqueville
7 What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear (fromDemocracy in America) 112
Alexis de Tocqueville
8 Society in America (fromSociety in America) 118
Harriet Martineau
9 A Belated Industry 126
Jane Addams
10 Freedom in a Complex Society (fromThe Great Transformation) 133
Karl Polanyi
Part III The Sociological Theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 141
Introduction to Part III 143
11 The German Ideology (fromThe German Ideology, Part One) 154
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
12 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1884 (fromCollected Works, Vol 3) 158
Karl Marx
13 Manifesto of the Communist Party (fromCollected Works, Vol 6) 168
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
14 Wage-Labour and Capital (fromKarl Marx: Selected Works) 183
Karl Marx
15 Classes (fromCollected Works, Vol 37) 191
Karl Marx
16 The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof (fromCapital, An Abridged Edition) 193
Karl Marx
17 The General Formula for Capital (fromCapital, An Abridged Edition) 198
Karl Marx
Part IV The Sociological Theory of Emile Durkheim 203
Introduction to Part IV 205
18 The Rules of Sociological Method (fromThe Rules of Sociological Method) 211
Emile Durkheim
19 The Division of Labor in Society (fromThe Division of Labor in Society) 228
Emile Durkheim
20 The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (fromElementary forms of the Religious Life) 250
Emile Durkheim
21 Suicide (fromSuicide: A Study in Sociology) 262
Emile Durkheim
Part V The Sociological Theory of Max Weber 271
Introduction to Part V 273
22 Objectivity in Social Science (fromThe Methodology of the Social Sciences) 279
Max Weber
23 Basic Sociological Terms (fromThe Theory of Social and Economic Organization) 286
Max Weber
24 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (fromProtestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism with Other Writings on the Rise of the West) 296
Max Weber
25 The Distribution of Power within the Political Community: Class, Status, Party (fromMax Weber: Essays in Sociology) 314
Max Weber
26 The Types of Legitimate Domination (fromThe Theory of Social and Economic Organization) 323
Max Weber
27 Bureaucracy (fromMax Weber: Essays in Sociology) 331
Max Weber
Part VI Self and Society 341
Introduction to Part VI 343
28 The Self (fromMind, Self and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist) 348
George Herbert Mead
29 The Stranger (fromGeorg Simmel: On Individuality and Social Forms) 361
Georg Simmel
30 The Triad (fromThe Sociology of Georg Simmel) 366
Georg Simmel
31 The Metropolis and Mental Life (fromGeorg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms) 372
Georg Simmel
32 The Souls of Black Folk (fromThe Souls of Black Folk) 381
W.E.B. Du Bois
33 The Damnation of Women (fromW.E.B. Du Bois A Reader) 387
W.E.B. Du Bois
Part VII Critical Theory 397
Introduction to Part VII 399
34 Traditional and Critical Theory (fromCritical Theory: Selected Essays) 406
Max Horkheimer
35 The Culture Industry (fromThe Dialectic of Enlightenment) 418
Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno
36 One-Dimensional Man (fromOne-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society) 430
Herbert Marcuse
37 Reflections on Violence 438
Hannah Arendt
Part VIII Sociology of Knowledge 445
Introduction to Part VIII 447
38 Ideology and Utopia (fromIdeology and Utopia) 451
Karl Mannheim
39 The Social Construction of Reality (fromThe Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge) 462
Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
40 The Phenomenology of the Social World (fromThe Phenomenology of the Social World) 471
Alfred Schutz
Part IX Functionalism 483
Introduction to Part IX 485
41 The Position of Sociological Theory (fromThe Position of Sociological Theory) 491
Talcott Parsons
42 Manifest and Latent Functions (fromSocial Theory and Social Structure) 498
Robert K. Merton
43 Social Structure and Anomie 505
Robert K. Merton
Part X Social Exchange 513
Introduction to Part X 515
44 Social Behavior as Exchange 520
George C. Homans
45 Exchange and Power in Social Life (fromExchange and Power in Social Life) 531
Peter M. Blau
Index 543