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PART I. THE NATURE, STRUCTURE, AND TYPES OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORYOn Intellectual Craftsmanship - C. Wright MillsThe Importance of General Theory - Talcott ParsonsMiddle-Range Theories - Robert K. MertonTheory as Explanation - George C. HomansThe Oversocialized View of Human Nature - Dennis H. WrongThe Theoretical Infrastructure - Alvin W. GouldnerPART II. THE ENLIGHTENMENT ROOTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORYThe Problem of Order - Thomas HobbesThe Social Contract - Jean-Jacques RousseauLaws, Mores, and Manners - Charles de MontesquieuPART III. PROTOSOCIOLOGYAn Unjust Social Order - Henri de Saint-SimonThe Hierarchical Structure of Society - Henri de Saint-SimonOrder and Progress - Auguste ComteLaw of the Three Stages - Auguste ComteSocial Progress - Herbert SpencerThe Evolution of Society - Herbert SpencerThe General Happiness - Harriet MartineauFolkways and Mores - William Graham SumnerIn-Groups, Out-Groups, and Ethnocentrism - William Graham SumnerPART IV. THE CLASSICAL TRADITIONCommodity Fetishism - Karl MarxAlienated Labor - Karl MarxHistorical Materialism - Karl MarxMechanical and Organic Solidarity - Émile DurkheimTypes of Suicide - Émile DurkheimSocial Facts - Émile DurkheimThe Rationalism of Western Civilization - Max WeberThe Spirit of Capitalism - Max WeberTypes of Authority - Max WeberThe Stranger - Georg SimmelDyad and Triad - Georg SimmelThe Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg SimmelPART V. THE INTERSTITIAL STATEMENTSThe Ruling Class - Gaetano MoscaThe Circulation of the Elites - Vilfredo ParetoThe Iron Law of Oligarchy - Robert MichelsThe Crowd Mind - Gustave Le BonThe Laws of Imitation - Gabriel TardeThe Herd Instinct - Sigmund FreudThe Conscience of Society - Sigmund FreudConspicuous Consumption - Thorstein VeblenCultural Lag - William F. OgburnIdeational, Sensate, and Idealistic Cultures - Pitirim A. SorokinImminent Sociocultural Change - Pitirim A. SorokinThe Pattern Variables - Talcott ParsonsThe Social System - Talcott ParsonsThe AGIL Schema - Talcott ParsonsManifest and Latent Functions - Robert K. MertonSocial Structure and Anomie - Robert K. MertonThe Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - Robert K. MertonStructural Integration and Change - Hans H. GerthCharacter and Conformity - David RiesmanPART VII. THE CRITICAL EDGESocial Structures, Social Conflicts, and Safety-Valve Institutions - Lewis A. CoserClass Conflict and Structural Change - Ralf DahrendorfThe Sociology of Knowledge - Karl MannheimHegemony - Antonio GramsciThe Reification of Consciousness - Georg LukácsCritical Theory - Max HorkheimerThe Culture Industry - Theodor W. AdornoThe Designer as Cultural Worker - C. Wright MillsPART VIII. THE SELF, INTERACTIONS, AND EXCHANGESThe Definition of the Situation - W. I. ThomasSelf and Society - George Herbert MeadThe Looking-Glass Self - Charles Horton CooleyPrimary Groups - Charles Horton CooleyPerformances in Everyday Life - Erving GoffmanManaging Stigma - Erving GoffmanThe Meaningfully Produced Social World - Alfred SchützSociety as Objective Reality - Peter L. Berger and Thomas LuckmannEthnomethodology - Harold GarfinkelObligatory Exchange - Marcel MaussSocial Behavior as Exchange - George C. HomansReciprocity, Power Imbalance, and Dialectical Change - Peter M. BlauIndividual Interests and Systems of Exchange - James S. ColemanPART IX. COMMUNITY AND CIVIL SOCIETYGemeinschaft and Gesellschaft - Ferdinand TönniesThe Quest for Community - Robert A. NisbetCivil Religion in America - Robert N. BellahA Normative Theory of Moral Community - Philip SelznickCommunitarianism - Amitai EtzioniThe Civilizing Process - Norbert EliasPART X. RACE AND GENDERThe Veil and Double Consciousness - W. E. B. Du BoisThe Talented Tenth - W. E. B. Du BoisThe Economic Status of Women - Charlotte Perkins GilmanFeminist Standpoint Theory - Dorothy E. SmithBlack Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill CollinsPerformative Theory of Gender Acts - Judith ButlerPART XI. SYSTEMS AND NETWORKSAutopoietic Systems - Niklas LuhmannLifeworld and Social System - Jürgen HabermasWorld-Systems Analysis - Immanuel WallersteinThe Network Society - Manuel CastellsActor-Network-Theory - Bruno LatourPART XII. LATE MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITYSociological Intervention - Alain TouraineStructuration Theory - Anthony GiddensOntological Security, Existential Anxiety, and Self-Identity - Anthony GiddensHabitus - Pierre BourdieuThe Risk Society - Ulrich BeckLiquid Modernity - Zygmunt BaumanGlobal Modernities - Roland RobertsonThe Postmodern Condition - Jean-François LyotardHyperreality - Jean Baudrillard