Classical sociological theory

edited by Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Pfaff, and Indermohan Virk. (2007) Published by Wiley-Blackwell.

General Introduction [pdf: 9 pages, 720kb]
Chapter 1 | Of the social contract [1762]
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Chapter 2 | What is Enlightenment? [1784]
by Immanuel Kant
Chapter 3 | The wealth of nations [1776]
by Adam Smith
Chapter 4 | Democracy in America [1835]
by Alexis de Toqueville
Chapter 5 | The German ideology [1845]
by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Chapter 6 | Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844 [1844]
by Karl Marx
Chapter 7 | Manifesto of the Communist Party [1848]
by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Chapter 8 | The eighteenth brumaire of Louis Bonaparte [1852]
by Karl Marx
Chapter 9 | Wage-labour and Capital [1847]
by Karl Marx
Chapter 10 | Classes [1867]
by Karl Marx
Chapter 11 | The rules of the sociological method [1895]
by Emile Durkheim
Chapter 12 | The division of labor in society [1893]
by Emile Durkheim
Chapter 13 | The elementary forms of religious life [1912]
by Emile Durkheim
Chapter 14 | Suicide [1897]
by Emile Durkheim
Chapter 15 | "Objectivity" in social science [1904]
by Max Weber
Chapter 16 | Basic sociological terms [1914]
by Max Weber
Chapter 17 | The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism [1904-5]
by Max Weber
Chapter 18 | The distribution of power within the political community:
Class, status, party [1914]
by Max Weber
Chapter 19 | The types of legitimate domination [1914]
by Max Weber
Chapter 20 | Bureaucracy [1922]
by Max Weber
Chapter 21 | The self [1934]
by George Herbert Mead
Chapter 22 | The stranger [1908]
by Georg Simmel
Chapter 23 | Group expansion and the development of individuality [1908]
by Georg Simmel
Chapter 24 | Civilization and its discontents [1929]
by Sigmund Freud
Chapter 25 | The souls of black folk [1903]
by W.E.B. Du Bois
Chapter 26 | Traditional and critical theory [1937]
by Max Horkheimer
Chapter 27 | Ideology and utopia [1929]
by Karl Manheim
Chapter 28 | The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction [1936]
by Walter Benjamin
Chapter 29 | The culture industry: Enlightenment as mass deception [1944]
by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno
Chapter 30 | One-dimensional man [1964]
by Herbert Marcuse
Chapter 31 | The position of sociological theory [1948]
by Talcott Parsons
Chapter 32 | Structural components of the social system [1951]
by Talcott Parsons
Chapter 33 | An outline of the social system [1961]
by Talcott Parsons
Chapter 34 | Manifest and latent functions [1957]
by Robert K. Merton
Chapter 35 | On sociological theories of the middle range [1949]
by Robert K. Merton
Chapter 36 | Social structure and anomie [1938]
by Robert K. Merton