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• Detailed Contents
• Preface
• A Note to Students
• Section I: The European Roots of Sociological Theory
• Chapter 1 – The Origins of Sociological Theory
• The Contours of Sociological Theory
• Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
• Ideology and Objectivity
• Sociological Subjects
• Research Traditions
• The Philosophical Precursors of Sociology
• Tradition and Modernity
• The Philosophes and the Enlightenment
• Political Revolutions
• Subjects and Citizens
• Capitalism and Industrial Revolution
• Order and Change
• Science and Ethics
• Final Thoughts on the Philosophical Precursors
• References
• Chapter 2 – Theorizing After the Revolution: Saint-Simon, Comte, and Martineau
• Claude-Henri, Comte de Saint-Simon (1760–1825)
• Saint-Simon’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Society, Humans, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Auguste Comte (1798–1857)
• Comte’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Society, Humans, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)
• Martineau’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Society, Humans, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Final Thoughts
• References
• Section II: Conservative Theories
• Chapter 3 – Evolutionism and Functionalism: Spencer and Sumner
• Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
• Spencer’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Society, Humans, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• William Graham Sumner (1840–1910)
• Sumner’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Society, Humans, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Final Thoughts
• References
• Chapter 4 – Society as Sui Generis: Durkheim
• Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)
• Durkheim’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Society, Humans, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Final Thoughts
• References
• Section III: Radical Theory
• Chapter 5 – Radical Anticapitalism: Marx and Engels
• Karl Marx (1818–1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)
• Marx’s and Engels’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Humans, Society, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Final Thoughts
• References
• Chapter 6 – Marxism Extended: Lenin and Luxemburg
• V. I. Lenin (1870–1924)
• Lenin’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Humans, Society, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919)
• Luxemburg’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Humans, Society, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Final Thoughts
• References
• Section IV: Sociological Theories of Complexity and Form
• Chapter 7 – Social Action and Social Complexity: Max Weber and Marianne Weber
• Max Weber (1864–1920) and Marianne Weber (1870–1954)
• Weber’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Society, Humans, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Final Thoughts
• References
• Chapter 8 – The Sociology of Form and Content: Simmel
• Georg Simmel (18580–1918)
• Simmel’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Society, Humans, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Final Thoughts
• References
• Section V: Sociological Theories of Politics and Economics
• Chapter 9 – Political Sociological Theories: Paretoand Michels
• Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923)
• Pareto’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Society, Humans, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Robert Michels (1876–1936)
• Michels’s Central Theory and Methods
• Nature of Humans, Society, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Final Thoughts
• References
• Chapter 10 – Economic Sociological Theories: Veblen and Schumpeter
• Thorstein Veblen, 1857–1929
• Veblen’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Society, Humans, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Joseph Schumpeter, 1883–1950
• Schumpeter’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Society, Humans, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Final Thoughts
• References
• Section VI: Other Voices in Sociological Theorizing
• Chapter 11 – Society and Gender: Gilman and Webb
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
• Gilman’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Society, Humans, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Beatrice Potter Webb (1858–1943)
• Webb’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Society, Humans, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Final Thoughts
• References
• Chapter 12 – Sociological Theory and Race: W.E.B.Du Bois
• W.E.B.Du Bois (1868–1963)
• Du Bois’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Society, Humans, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Final Thoughts
• References
• Chapter 13 – Society, Self, and Mind: Cooley, Mead, and Freud
• Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)
• Cooky’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Society, Humans, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• George Herbert Mead (1863–1931)
• Mead’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Society, Humans, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theorists and Theories
• Critique and Conclusions
• Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
• Freud’s Central Theories and Methods
• Nature of Society, Humans, and Change
• Class, Gender, and Race
• Other Theories and Theorists
• Critique and Conclusions
• Final Thoughts
• References
• Chapter 14 – Final Thoughts on Classical Sociological Theory
• Nineteenth-Century Sociological Theory
• Dominant Theories and Ideologies
• Radical Theory and Ideology
• Early Twentieth-Century Sociological Theory
• Gender and Race
• Inequality, Progress, and Revolution
• Views of Change
• Ideology, Society, and Human Nature
• Other Theoretical Issues
• Power
• The Self
• Sociological Theory by the 1930s
• References
• Credits
• Index