The Classical Tradition in Sociology

Jeffrey Alexander is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles

VOLUME I: THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY: I - FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE FOUNDING FATHERS (1750-1900) I: THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT On the Fronteirs of Sociology and History - L Schneider Observations on Evolutionary Development and Unanticipated Consequences The American Enlightenment - Peter Gay The Founders and the Classics - C J Richard Greece, Rome and the American Enlightenment II: DE TOCQUEVILLE AND AMERICAN DISTINCTIVENESS TRANSCENDENTALISTS God, Woman, and Morality - W Mathie The Democratic Family in the New Political Science of Alexis de Tocqueville The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville - R J Boesche Pauperism and Democracy - H Brogan Alexis de Tocqueville and Nassau Senior III: THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY Introduction, from The Philadelphia Negro - W E B DuBois W E B DuBois as a Social Investigator - M Bulmer The Philadelphia Negro 1899 Social Self-Control - A Giddings The Causes of Race Superiority - Ross Sociology - B Lecuyer and A R Oberschall The Early History of Social Research Fifty Years of Sociology in the United States - 1865 - 1915 - Albion Small The Statistical Turn in American Social Science - C Camic and Y Xie Columbia University, 1890 to 1915 American Sociology at the Turn of the Century - Robert E Faris American Sociology - H Odum VOLUME II: THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY: II - THE CLASSICAL TRADITION (1900-1940) Editor's Introduction - Jeffrey C Alexander I: THE CHICAGO SCHOOL AND PRAGMATISM The Work of George Mead - G Dewey The Chicago School of Sociology - M Bulmer What Made It a `School'? George Herbert Mead and the Chicago Tradition of Sociology - B M Fisher and A L Strauss Parts I and II Sociology and Public Affairs - J Carey The Chicago School The Chicago Tradition - B M Fisher and A L Strauss Thomas, Park and their Successors Pragmatism and Social Interactionisms - Dmitri Shalin The Self as Social Structure - G H Mead The Self as Sentiment and Relection - C H Cooley The Looking Glass Self - C H Cooley On Thomas and Znaniecki's `The Polish Peasant' - M Bulmer Urbanism as a Way of Life - Louise Wirth The Ghetto - Louise Wirth The Development of Field Research Methods - M Bulmer II: OTHER AMERICAS: SOCIOLOGY OUTSIDE CHICAGO Sociology as a Religious Movement - R R Dynes William Graham Sumner - D W Rossides Lester F Ward - D W Rossides A Scientific Revolution - H Kuklick Sociological Theory in the United States, 1930 - 1945 Origins of American Sociology - L L Bernard and J Bernard The Social Science Movement in the United States The Social Construction of Style - G A Fine Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class as Contested Text Scientism, from A History of Sociological Research Methods in America - Jennifer Platt VOLUME III: AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY IN THE 20TH CENTURY: I - FROM PRAGMATISM TO FUNCTIONALISM AND QUANTITATIVE SOCIOLOGY (1930 - 1960) Editor's Introduction - Jeffrey C Alexander I: SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM: FROM MEAD TO BLUMER The Methodological Position of Symbolic Interactionism - H Blumer Elaboration, Revision, Polemic and Progress in the Second Chicago School - Paul Colomy and J David Brown The Sad Demise, Mysterious Disappearance, and Glorious Triumph of Symbolic Interaction - Gary Alan Fine Herbert Blumer's Contribution to Twentieth Century Sociology - Shibutani The Classic American Pragmatists as Forerunners to Symbolic Interactionism - J D Lewis Everett Hughes - Anselm Strauss Sociology's Mission Everett Hughes and the Development of Fieldwork in Sociology - J M Chaupolie Social Problems as Collective Behavior - H Blumer Accounts - Scott and Lyman II: TALCOTT PARSONS: SOCIAL ACTION; FUNCTIONALISM; SYSTEMS THEORY Parsons's Structure - Jeffrey C Alexander Structure after 50 years - C Camic The Anatomy of a Charter Out of Utopia - R Dahrendorf III: LAZARSFELD AND MERTON: THEORIES OF THE MIDDLE RANGE Merton as a Discipline Builder - Charles Crothers Out of Utopia - Jennifer Platt IV: OTHER MICRO-APPROACHES Small Group Theory and Research - Robert F Bales Bringing Men Back In - G Homans The Oversocialized Conception of Man in Modern Sociology - D Wrong Cohesion and Disintegration in the Wehrmact in World War II - E Shils and M Janowitz Deviant Behaviour and Social Structure - R Dubin The Curious Importance of Small Groups in American Sociology - A Silver Contributions to the Theory of Reference Group Behavior - Merton and Kitt V ORGANIZATIONAL AND POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY Metaphysical Pathos and the Theory of Bureaucracy - Alvin Gouldner VOLUME IV: AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY IN THE 20TH CENTURY: II (1960 - ) Editor's Introduction - Jeffrey C Alexander I: MAJOR MACRO-SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES MODERNIZATION AND SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION: FROM PARSONS TO SMELSER AND NEO-FUNCTIONALSIM Social Differentiation and Organic Solidarity - H P Muller The Division of Labor Revisited, Sociological Forum Economy and Society: A Reminder Stressing the Importance of the Contribution by T Parsons and N Smelser - M A Basle Social Theory and Talcott Parsons in the 1980s - D Sciulli and D Gerstein Against Nostalgia - B Turner and R Holton ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY AND NEO-INSTITUTIONALISM Bell and Post-Industrial Theory - M Waters On the Use and Abuse of Thorstein Veblen in Modern American Sociology II - R Tilman and J L Simich Daniel Bell and the `Utopianizing' of Veblen's Contribution and its Integration by Robert Merton and C W Mills Institutionalization Organizations - Meyer and Rowan Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony FROM CRITICAL THEORY TO COMMUNATARIANISM Critical Theory and the Crisis of Social Theory - D Kellner HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY: FROM MOORE TO SKOCPOL Vision and Method in Historical Sociology - T Skocpol II: MAJOR MICRO-SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES Treating Method and Form as Phenomena - L Langsdorf An Appreciation of Garfinkel's Phenomenology of Social Action Drama as Life - P Manning The Significance of Goffman's Changing Use of the Theatrical Metaphor Rational Choice Theory in Sociology - R J Holton III: NEW TRENDS Feminism, Essentialism, and Historical Context - R Champagne I Can't Even Think Straight - A Stein and K Plummer Queer Theory and the Missing Sexual Revolution in Sociology Social Postmodernism - L J Nicholson and S Seidman Beyond Identity Politics The Promise of a Cultural Sociology - J C Alexander Technological Discourse and the Sacred and Profane Information Machine

`In presenting this monumental work , Professors Alexander, Boudon and Cherkaoui have done magnificent service not only for sociology but for the intellectual world in general. The Classical Tradition in Sociology stands unmatched as the most intelligent, comprehensive, balanced, and definitive treatment of the history of sociology right up to the present. I am already urging people to read it as an essential ingredient in their ongoing education, and I am confident that I will continue to deliver this message for many years to come' - Neil J Smelser, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford