Central Currents in Social Theory

VOLUME ONE PART ONE: SOCIAL ACTION AND THE BASIC PROCESSES OF INTERACTION Section One: Rationality and Extra-rationality of Action Passion and Interest - La Bruy[ac]ere and La Rouchefoucauld The Limitation of Reason - David Hume Action, Intentionality and Motives - Jeremy Bentham Types of Social Action - Max Weber Logical and Non-Logical Actions - Vilfredo Pareto Section Two: Communication Processes of Influence and Miscommunication - Alexis de Tocqueville Secrecy - Georg Simmel Socio-Linguistic Codes - Emile Durkheim Section Three: Exchange Exchange as a Principal of Human Nature - Adam Smith Exchange, Value and their Requisites - Karl Marx Exchange and Equilibrium - L[ac]eon Walras The Potlatch - Franz Boas The Kula Ring - Bronislaw Malinowski The Gift - Marcel Mauss Section Four: Influence, Authority, Power The Power of a Man - Thomas Hobbes On Authority - Emile Durkheim Types of Domination - Max Weber Section Five: Conflict Pure Conflict and the Emergence of Coalitions - Karl Marx The Functions of Social Conflict - Georg Simmel War and Politics - Claus von Clausewitz Section Six: Collective Action Collective Action and Democratic Despotism - Alexis de Tocqueville It is Better to Deliver Simple Messages to Crowds - Gustave Le Bon The Latent Functions of Collective Violence and its Rationality - Emile Durkheim The Limits of Imitation - Emile Durkheim PART TWO: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS Section One: Contract Social and Private The Contract as Transfer of Right and Control - Thomas Hobbes The Essence of the Contract in Civil Law - Robert Joseph Pothier The Contract as the Logical Basis of Social Bond - Jean-Jacques Rousseau From Status to Contract - Henry Summer Maine Section Two: Organizations On the Limits of Corporation Size - Jean Gustace Courcelle-Seneuil A Harbinger of the Neo-Institutional Economics Bureaucratic Domination - Max Weber Principals of Organization - Frederick Wilson Taylor Section Three: Processes of Socialization and Socializing Agencies The Social Setting of Education - Emile Durkheim How to Become a Man - Arnold Van Gennep The Social Self - George Herbert Mead Religion, Family and Kinship - Fustel de Coulanges Family Types - Frederic LePlay An Evolutionary Theory of the Family - L H Morgan Pedagogy and Curricula as Means of Socialization and Ideological Weapons - Emile Durkheim Bureaucracy and Education - Max Weber Section Four: Social Control Explaining Crime - Gabriel Tarde Anomie and Regulation - Emile Durkheim Folkways - William Graham Sumner The Function of Punitive Justice - George Herbert Mead VOLUME TWO PART TWO: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS Section Five: Political Institutions Virtue and Politics - Niccol[gr]o Machiavelli The Majority Rule - John Locke The Structure of Three Governments - Baron de Montesquieu On Fractions - James Madison The Protective Democracy - Jeremy Bentham The Moral Chain of Democracy - John Stuart Mill The Active Minorities - Augustin Cochin Democracy and the Iron Law of Oligarchy - Robert Michels Section Six: Nation, State and International Relations On the Instability of the State - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon State and Social Classes - Karl Marx The Emergence of the Rational State - Max Weber The Sociology of Imperialism - Joseph Schumpeter PART THREE: SOCIAL STRUCTURE Section One: Interdependence and Social Networks From the Insurance Game to Cooperation - Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Realism of Society - Claude-Henry de Saint-Simon Interdependence and the Structural Hole - Jean-Baptist Say Interactions and Society - Georg Simmel Section Two: Positions - Emile Durkheim Role and Status The Origin of Metaphor - Friedrich Nietzsche The Stranger - Georg Simmel Definition of a Situation - William I Thomas Section Three: Division of Labor The Consequences of the Division of Labour - Adam Smith The Specificity of the Division of Labour in the Capitalist Economy - Karl Marx The Division of Labour and Interdependence - Herbert Spencer New Arguments in Favour of the Division of Labour - Charles Laboulaye The Abnormal Forms of the Division of Labour - Emile Durkheim The Division of Labour as a Method of Analysis - Frederick Wilson Taylor Section Four: Social Stratification Classes and the Three Components of Prices - Adam Smith The Multidimensional Space of Classes - Karl Marx Class, Status and Party - Max Weber Section Five: Social Mobility Democracy and Revolution - Alexis de Tocqueville Social Mobility and Fertility - Ars[gr]ene Dumont Circulation of Elites - Vilfredo Pareto Social Mobility and Political Orientation - Werner Sombart Section Six: Integration and Segregation Community and Society - Ferdinand T[um]onnies Integration and Isolation - Emile Durkheim Regulation and the Paradoxical Consequences of Deprivation - Emile Durkheim The Primary Group - Charles Horton Cooley PART FOUR: SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS Section One: Collective Beliefs Crystallization of Beliefs - John Stuart Mill Explaining Beliefs Rationally - Emile Durkheim Cognitive and Affective Aspects of Beliefs - Vilfredo Pareto The Thomas Theorem - W I Thomas and Dorothy Swaine Thomas Section Two: Magical Beliefs Magic as Consequence of a - Weltanschauung Friedrich Nietzsche Explaining Magic Rationally - Emile Durkheim VOULUME THREE PART FOUR: SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS Section Three: Norms and Values Value Judgement and the Judgement of Reality - David Hume How Values Emerge - Emile Durkheim The Genealogy of Moral Feelings - Friedrich Nietszche Ressentiment and Moral Value Judgement - Max Scheler On the Undecidability of Values - Vilfredo Pareto Section Four: Religious Beliefs What is Sacrifice? - W Robertson Smith Atheism and the Structure of Religious Supply - Adam Smith Section Five: Scientific Beliefs Science is Based on Unproven Presuppositions - Max Weber The Religious Origin of Science - Emile Durkheim Science and Theology - Pierre Duhem Section Six: Ideologies and Worldviews Social Relations and the Production of Ideas - Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Objectivity and Bias - Karl Mannheim Section Seven: Culture and Tastes The Portrait - Georg Simmel Conspicuous Consumption - Thorstein Veblen Section Eight: Intellectuals The `Philosophes' and the French Revolution - Alexis de Tocqueville The Organic Intellectuals - Antonio Gramsci Intellgentsia - Karl Mannheim Why Some Intellectuals Succeed - Alfred Vierkandt PART FIVE: SOCIAL CHANGE Section One: Processes of Change, Innovations and Diffusions Technical Change - Karl Marx The Social Mechanism of Change - Emile Durkheim Prophet, Priest and Magician - Max Weber Charismatic Change and Routinization When Social Change Follows the Continuity Principal - Alfred Vierkandt Explaining Economic Change - Joseph Schumpeter Section Two: Social Movements Deprivation and Revolution - Alexis de Tocqueville Bourgeois and Proletarians - Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Rebellion Against Machines - Karl Marx Section Three: Modernization and Evolution On the Origin of Societies - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Human Evolution - Jean-Antoine-Nicholas de Condorcet Models of Production - Karl Marx The Emergence of Individuum - Jacob Burckhardt Modernization and Rationalization - Max Weber A Theory of Cycles - Vilfredo Pareto PART SIX: THEORETICAL GENERAL ORIENTATIONS Section One: Positivism Science and Non-Science - August Comte The Positivistic Principals of Explanation Explaining Social Facts - Emile Durkheim Section Two: Comprehensive Sociology Understanding and Human Sciences - Wilhelm Dilthey Different Meanings of Verstehen - Heinrich Rickert Verstehen - Max Weber Section Three: Marxism Marxian Methodology - Eugen von B[um]ohm-Bawerk Ultimate Economic Cause as Illusion - Max Weber Class Consciousness - Georg Luk[gr]acs VOLUME FOUR PART SIX: THEORETICAL GENERAL ORIENTATIONS Section Four: Utilitarianism What is Utility? - Jeremy Bentham Utilitarianism as General Theory - John Stuart Mill Total and Marginal Utility - Stanley Jevons Section Five: Methodological Individualism Deductive vs. Historical Analysis - Eugen von B[um]ohm-Bawerk Verstehen and the Ultimate Sociological Unit - Max Weber Methodological Individualism - Joseph Schumpeter Section Six: Functionalism Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche Against Finalism - Emile Durkheim Explaining is Disenchanting the Universe Explaining Moral Beliefs and Attitudes by their Function - Max Scheler PART SEVEN: PROBLEMS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Section One: Explaining, Understanding, Interpreting The Meaning of Verstehen - Heinrich Rickert Hermeneutics and the Study of History - Wilhelm Dilthey The Research Programme of Comprehensive Sociology - Max Weber Section Two: The Micro-Macro Link Private Vice, Public Virtue - Bernard Mandeville The Invisible Hand - Adam Smith Institution as Unintended Consequences of Individual Actions - Adam Ferguson Macro Phenomena as Complex Aggregation Effects - Max Weber Section Three: Mathematical Sociology and Statistical Methods Mathematizing Social Phenomena - Jean-Antoine-Nicholas de Condorcet The Anathematization of Probabilist Theory in Sociology - Auguste Comte Statistics as a Tool of Social Research - M A Quetelet Optimising the Likelihood of Juries Being Right - A A Cournot Laws do not Imply the Insignificance of Moral Causes - John Stuart Mill A Non-Formalized Multivariate Analysis - Emile Durkheim Correlation and Causality - George Yule and Maurice Kendall PART EIGHT: RELATIONS WITH OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES Section One: Psychology The Legitimacy of Measurement in Psychology - Gabriel Tarde Psychological and Sociological Facts - Emile Durkheim Comprehensive Psychology - Karl Jaspers Psychology and Comprehensive Sociology - Max Weber Section Two: Economics Economics as Metaphysics - Auguste Comte Economy and Sociology - John Stuart Mill Pareto Optimum - Vilfredo Pareto Economic Action - Max Weber The Entrepreneur and his Motivation - Joseph Schumpeter Section Three: History Understanding and Historical Consciousness - Wilhelm Dilthey History as Empirical Science - Georg Simmel The Logic of History - Max Weber Section Four: Demography Income and Demographic Growth - Richard Cantillon Simulation of Demographic Growth - Thomas Malthus A Theory of Secular Decline of Fertility - Ars[ac]ene Dumont Section Five: Linguistics Language and Speech or Society and Individuum - Ferdinand de Saussure Language and Thought - Franz Boas Some False Beliefs - Edward Sapir