Central Currents in Social Theory: The Roots of Sociological Theory 1700-1920 / Edition 1

by Raymond Boudon, Mohamed Cherkaoui

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761962410
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 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 Le Play
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