Full Description
For courses in Classical Social Theory, and Classical Principles of Social Psychology.This time-honored text provides complete, systematic expositions of the classical sociological thinkers, theories, and concepts-from the 18th-century Enlightenment to the 20th century. It features broad, extended, and balanced coverage of both the European theorists of Social Structure as well as the Classical American Theorists of Social Psychology.
Contents
I. THE ENLIGHTENMENT. 1. The Enlightenment2. Montesquieu (1689-1755). 3. Rousseau (1712-1778). 4. Perfectibility Through Education: Rousseau's Emile-and Sophy. 5. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797). II. POST-REVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT. 6. The Romantic-Conservative Reaction. 7. Bonald and Maistre. 8. Saint-Simon (1760-1825). 9. Auguste Comte (1798-1857). 10. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859). 11. Harriet Martineau (1802-1876). 12. Harriet Taylor (1807-1858) and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). III. THE MARXIAN WATERSHED. 13. The Philosophical Orientations of Karl Marx (1818-1883). 14. Marx's Relation to Hegel and Feuerbach. 15. Marx's Historical Sociology. 16. Frederick Engels on the Origin of Patriarchy. IV. THE DEBATE WITH MARX'S GHOST. 17. Max Weber (1864-1920). 18. Weber's Methodology of the Social Sciences. 19. Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923). 20. Gaetano Mosca (1858-1941). 21. Robert Michels (1876-1936). 22. Emile Durkheim (1858-1917). 23. Karl Mannheim (1893-1947). V. CLASSICAL PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: THE AMERICAN PRAGMATIST SCHOOL. 24. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914): Classical Principles of Social Psychology-The American Pragmatist School. 25. William James (1842-1910). 26. John Dewey (1859-1952). 27. George Herbert Mead (1863-1931). Epilogue. Index.
