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Central Currents in Social Theory: The Roots of Sociological Theory 1700-1920 / Edition 1 available in Hardcover
Central Currents in Social Theory: The Roots of Sociological Theory 1700-1920 / Edition 1
by Raymond Boudon, Mohamed Cherkaoui
Raymond Boudon
- ISBN-10:
- 0761962417
- ISBN-13:
- 9780761962410
- Pub. Date:
- 06/30/2000
- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
- ISBN-10:
- 0761962417
- ISBN-13:
- 9780761962410
- Pub. Date:
- 06/30/2000
- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
Central Currents in Social Theory: The Roots of Sociological Theory 1700-1920 / Edition 1
by Raymond Boudon, Mohamed Cherkaoui
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Overview
Divided into two 4 volume sets, this collection provides a complete guide to social theory from 1700 to the present day. Each set is divided around eight essential issues which are of core concern to social theory: social action and basic processes of interaction; social institutions; social structure; social representations; social change; theoretical orientations; problems in the philosophy of social sciences; sociology's reflections upon itself and its relations with other social sciences.
The collections are designed to show how thinking in social theory has changed since 1700 on all of these essential issues and to give a comprehensive and concise guide to the main issues. The editors provide a collection which distil
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ISBN-13: | 9780761962410 |
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Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Publication date: | 06/30/2000 |
Edition description: | Four-Volume Set |
Pages: | 1680 |
Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d) |
Table of Contents
VOLUME ONEPART ONE: SOCIAL ACTION AND THE BASIC PROCESSES OF INTERACTIONSection One: Rationality and Extra-rationality of ActionPassion and Interest - La Bruy[ac]ere and La RouchefoucauldThe Limitation of Reason - David HumeAction, Intentionality and Motives - Jeremy BenthamTypes of Social Action - Max WeberLogical and Non-Logical Actions - Vilfredo ParetoSection Two: CommunicationProcesses of Influence and Miscommunication - Alexis de TocquevilleSecrecy - Georg SimmelSocio-Linguistic Codes - Emile DurkheimSection Three: ExchangeExchange as a Principal of Human Nature - Adam SmithExchange, Value and their Requisites - Karl MarxExchange and Equilibrium - L[ac]eon WalrasThe Potlatch - Franz BoasThe Kula Ring - Bronislaw MalinowskiThe Gift - Marcel MaussSection Four: Influence, Authority, PowerThe Power of a Man - Thomas HobbesOn Authority - Emile DurkheimTypes of Domination - Max WeberSection Five: ConflictPure Conflict and the Emergence of Coalitions - Karl MarxThe Functions of Social Conflict - Georg SimmelWar and Politics - Claus von ClausewitzSection Six: Collective ActionCollective Action and Democratic Despotism - Alexis de TocquevilleIt is Better to Deliver Simple Messages to Crowds - Gustave Le BonThe Latent Functions of Collective Violence and its Rationality - Emile DurkheimThe Limits of Imitation - Emile DurkheimPART TWO: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONSSection One: ContractSocial and PrivateThe Contract as Transfer of Right and Control - Thomas HobbesThe Essence of the Contract in Civil Law - Robert Joseph PothierThe Contract as the Logical Basis of Social Bond - Jean-Jacques RousseauFrom Status to Contract - Henry Summer MaineSection Two: OrganizationsOn the Limits of Corporation Size - Jean Gustace Courcelle-SeneuilA Harbinger of the Neo-Institutional EconomicsBureaucratic Domination - Max WeberPrincipals of Organization - Frederick Wilson TaylorSection Three: Processes of Socialization and Socializing AgenciesThe Social Setting of Education - Emile DurkheimHow to Become a Man - Arnold Van GennepThe Social Self - George Herbert MeadReligion, Family and Kinship - Fustel de CoulangesFamily Types - Frederic Le PlayAn Evolutionary Theory of the Family - L H MorganPedagogy and Curricula as Means of Socialization and Ideological Weapons - Emile DurkheimBureaucracy and Education - Max WeberSection Four: Social ControlExplaining Crime - Gabriel TardeAnomie and Regulation - Emile DurkheimFolkways - William Graham SumnerThe Function of Punitive Justice - George Herbert MeadVOLUME TWOPART TWO: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONSSection Five: Political InstitutionsVirtue and Politics - Niccol[gr]o MachiavelliThe Majority Rule - John LockeThe Structure of Three Governments - Baron de MontesquieuOn Fractions - James MadisonThe Protective Democracy - Jeremy BenthamThe Moral Chain of Democracy - John Stuart MillThe Active Minorities - Augustin CochinDemocracy and the Iron Law of Oligarchy - Robert MichelsSection Six: Nation, State and International RelationsOn the Instability of the State - Pierre-Joseph ProudhonState and Social Classes - Karl MarxThe Emergence of the Rational State - Max WeberThe Sociology of Imperialism - Joseph SchumpeterPART THREE: SOCIAL STRUCTURESection One: Interdependence and Social NetworksFrom the Insurance Game to Cooperation - Jean-Jacques RousseauThe Realism of Society - Claude-Henry de Saint-SimonInterdependence and the Structural Hole - Jean-Baptist SayInteractions and Society - Georg SimmelSection Two: Positions - Emile DurkheimRole and StatusThe Origin of Metaphor - Friedrich NietzscheThe Stranger - Georg SimmelDefinition of a Situation - William I ThomasSection Three: Division of LaborThe Consequences of the Division of Labour - Adam SmithThe Specificity of the Division of Labour in the Capitalist Economy - Karl MarxThe Division of Labour and Interdependence - Herbert SpencerNew Arguments in Favour of the Division of Labour - Charles LaboulayeThe Abnormal Forms of the Division of Labour - Emile DurkheimThe Division of Labour as a Method of Analysis - Frederick Wilson TaylorSection Four: Social StratificationClasses and the Three Components of Prices - Adam SmithThe Multidimensional Space of Classes - Karl MarxClass, Status and Party - Max WeberSection Five: Social MobilityDemocracy and Revolution - Alexis de TocquevilleSocial Mobility and Fertility - Ars[gr]ene DumontCirculation of Elites - Vilfredo ParetoSocial Mobility and Political Orientation - Werner SombartSection Six: Integration and SegregationCommunity and Society - Ferdinand T[um]onniesIntegration and Isolation - Emile DurkheimRegulation and the Paradoxical Consequences of Deprivation - Emile DurkheimThe Primary Group - Charles Horton CooleyPART FOUR: SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONSSection One: Collective BeliefsCrystallization of Beliefs - John Stuart MillExplaining Beliefs Rationally - Emile DurkheimCognitive and Affective Aspects of Beliefs - Vilfredo ParetoThe Thomas Theorem - W I Thomas and Dorothy Swaine ThomasSection Two: Magical BeliefsMagic as Consequence of a - Weltanschauung Friedrich NietzscheExplaining Magic Rationally - Emile DurkheimVOULUME THREEPART FOUR: SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONSSection Three: Norms and ValuesValue Judgement and the Judgement of Reality - David HumeHow Values Emerge - Emile DurkheimThe Genealogy of Moral Feelings - Friedrich NietszcheRessentiment and Moral Value Judgement - Max SchelerOn the Undecidability of Values - Vilfredo ParetoSection Four: Religious BeliefsWhat is Sacrifice? - W Robertson SmithAtheism and the Structure of Religious Supply - Adam SmithSection Five: Scientific BeliefsScience is Based on Unproven Presuppositions - Max WeberThe Religious Origin of Science - Emile DurkheimScience and Theology - Pierre DuhemSection Six: Ideologies and WorldviewsSocial Relations and the Production of Ideas - Karl Marx and Frederick EngelsObjectivity and Bias - Karl MannheimSection Seven: Culture and TastesThe Portrait - Georg SimmelConspicuous Consumption - Thorstein VeblenSection Eight: IntellectualsThe ‘Philosophes' and the French Revolution - Alexis de TocquevilleThe Organic Intellectuals - Antonio GramsciIntellgentsia - Karl MannheimWhy Some Intellectuals Succeed - Alfred VierkandtPART FIVE: SOCIAL CHANGESection One: Processes of Change, Innovations and DiffusionsTechnical Change - Karl MarxThe Social Mechanism of Change - Emile DurkheimProphet, Priest and Magician - Max WeberCharismatic Change and RoutinizationWhen Social Change Follows the Continuity Principal - Alfred VierkandtExplaining Economic Change - Joseph SchumpeterSection Two: Social MovementsDeprivation and Revolution - Alexis de TocquevilleBourgeois and Proletarians - Karl Marx and Frederick EngelsRebellion Against Machines - Karl MarxSection Three: Modernization and EvolutionOn the Origin of Societies - Jean-Jacques RousseauHuman Evolution - Jean-Antoine-Nicholas de CondorcetModels of Production - Karl MarxThe Emergence of Individuum - Jacob BurckhardtModernization and Rationalization - Max WeberA Theory of Cycles - Vilfredo ParetoPART SIX: THEORETICAL GENERAL ORIENTATIONSSection One: PositivismScience and Non-Science - August ComteThe Positivistic Principals of ExplanationExplaining Social Facts - Emile DurkheimSection Two: Comprehensive SociologyUnderstanding and Human Sciences - Wilhelm DiltheyDifferent Meanings of Verstehen - Heinrich RickertVerstehen - Max WeberSection Three: MarxismMarxian Methodology - Eugen von B[um]ohm-BawerkUltimate Economic Cause as Illusion - Max WeberClass Consciousness - Georg Luk[gr]acsVOLUME FOURPART SIX: THEORETICAL GENERAL ORIENTATIONSSection Four: UtilitarianismWhat is Utility? - Jeremy BenthamUtilitarianism as General Theory - John Stuart MillTotal and Marginal Utility - Stanley JevonsSection Five: Methodological IndividualismDeductive vs. Historical Analysis - Eugen von B[um]ohm-BawerkVerstehen and the Ultimate Sociological Unit - Max WeberMethodological Individualism - Joseph SchumpeterSection Six: FunctionalismGood and Evil - Friedrich NietzscheAgainst Finalism - Emile DurkheimExplaining is Disenchanting the UniverseExplaining Moral Beliefs and Attitudes by their Function - Max SchelerPART SEVEN: PROBLEMS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCESSection One: Explaining, Understanding, InterpretingThe Meaning of Verstehen - Heinrich RickertHermeneutics and the Study of History - Wilhelm DiltheyThe Research Programme of Comprehensive Sociology - Max WeberSection Two: The Micro-Macro LinkPrivate Vice, Public Virtue - Bernard MandevilleThe Invisible Hand - Adam SmithInstitution as Unintended Consequences of Individual Actions - Adam FergusonMacro Phenomena as Complex Aggregation Effects - Max WeberSection Three: Mathematical Sociology and Statistical MethodsMathematizing Social Phenomena - Jean-Antoine-Nicholas de CondorcetThe Anathematization of Probabilist Theory in Sociology - Auguste ComteStatistics as a Tool of Social Research - M A QueteletOptimising the Likelihood of Juries Being Right - A A CournotLaws do not Imply the Insignificance of Moral Causes - John Stuart MillA Non-Formalized Multivariate Analysis - Emile DurkheimCorrelation and Causality - George Yule and Maurice KendallPART EIGHT: RELATIONS WITH OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCESSection One: PsychologyThe Legitimacy of Measurement in Psychology - Gabriel TardePsychological and Sociological Facts - Emile DurkheimComprehensive Psychology - Karl JaspersPsychology and Comprehensive Sociology - Max WeberSection Two: EconomicsEconomics as Metaphysics - Auguste ComteEconomy and Sociology - John Stuart MillPareto Optimum - Vilfredo ParetoEconomic Action - Max WeberThe Entrepreneur and his Motivation - Joseph SchumpeterSection Three: HistoryUnderstanding and Historical Consciousness - Wilhelm DiltheyHistory as Empirical Science - Georg SimmelThe Logic of History - Max WeberSection Four: DemographyIncome and Demographic Growth - Richard CantillonSimulation of Demographic Growth - Thomas MalthusA Theory of Secular Decline of Fertility - Ars[ac]ene DumontSection Five: LinguisticsLanguage and Speech or Society and Individuum - Ferdinand de SaussureLanguage and Thought - Franz BoasSome False Beliefs - Edward SapirFrom the B&N Reads Blog
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