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Classical sociological theory

Ritzer, George (author.). Stepnisky, Jeffrey (author.).

Summary: "Classical Sociological Theory, Eighth Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought from the Enlightenment roots of theory through the early 20th century. The integration of key theories with biographical sketches of theorists and the requisite historical and intellectual context helps students to better understand the original works of classical authors as well as to compare and contrast classical theories"--

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  • ISBN: 9781544354828 (softcover)
  • Physical Description: print
    xxiii, 580 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
  • Edition: Eighth edition.
  • Publisher: Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc, [2021]

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General Note:
Revised edition of the authors' Classical sociological theory, [2018].
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note: Part I: Introduction to Classical Sociological Theory. Chapter 1: A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early Years -- Chapter 2: A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years -- Part II: Classical Sociological Theory. Chapter 3: Alexis de Tocqueville -- Chapter 4: Auguste Comte -- Chapter 5: Herbert Spencer -- Chapter 6: Karl Marx -- Chapter 7: Emile Durkheim -- Chapter 8: Max Weber -- Chapter 9: Georg Simmel -- Chapter 10: Early Women Sociologists and Classical Sociological Theory: 1830--1930 -- Chapter 11: W. E. B. Du Bois -- Chapter 12: Thorstein Veblen -- Chapter 13: Joseph Schumpeter -- Chapter 14: Karl Mannheim -- Chapter 15: George Herbert Mead -- Chapter 16: Alfred Schutz -- Chapter 17: Talcott Parsons.

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Subject: Sociology -- History
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Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxi
About the Authors xxiii
PART I INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
1(84)
Chapter 1 A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early Years
3(42)
Introduction
4(3)
Premodern Sociological Theory
7(3)
Social Forces in the Development of Sociological Theory
10(3)
Political Revolutions
10(1)
The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Capitalism
10(1)
Colonialism
11(1)
The Rise of Socialism
11(1)
Feminism
12(1)
Urbanization
12(1)
Religious Change
13(1)
The Growth of Science
13(1)
Intellectual Forces and the Rise of Sociological Theory
13(2)
The Enlightenment
14(1)
The Conservative Reaction to the Enlightenment
15(1)
The Development of French Sociology
15(6)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
16(1)
Claude Henri Saint-Simon (1760-1825)
17(1)
Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
17(2)
Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
19(1)
Social Facts
19(1)
Religion
20(1)
The Development of German Sociology
21(5)
The Roots and Nature of the Theories of Karl Marx (1818-1883)
21(1)
Hegel
21(1)
Feuerbach
22(1)
Marx, Hegel, and Feuerbach
23(1)
Political Economy
23(1)
Marx and Sociology
24(1)
Marx's Theory
25(1)
The Roots and Nature of the Theories of Max Weber (1864-1920) and Georg Simmel (1858-1918)
26(6)
Weber and Marx
26(1)
Other Influences on Weber
27(1)
Weber's Theory
27(2)
The Acceptance of Weber's Theory
29(1)
Simmel's Theory
30(2)
The Origins of British Sociology
32(6)
Political Economy, Ameliorism, and Social Evolution
32(1)
Political Economy
33(1)
Ameliorism
34(1)
Social Evolution
34(1)
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
34(1)
Spencer and Comte
34(1)
Evolutionary Theory
35(1)
The Reaction against Spencer in Britain
36(1)
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
36(2)
The Key Figure in Early Italian Sociology
38(1)
Non-European Classical Theory
39(2)
The Contemporary Relevance of Classical Sociological Theory
41(2)
Summary
43(2)
Chapter 2 A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years
45(40)
Early American Sociological Theory
47(12)
Politics
47(1)
Social Change and Intellectual Currents
47(1)
Herbert Spencer's Influence on Sociology
48(2)
Thorstein Vebten 11857-19291
50(1)
Joseph Schumpeter 11883-19501
51(1)
The Chicago School
51(1)
Early Chicago Sociology
51(5)
The Waning of Chicago Sociology
56(1)
Women in Early American Sociology
57(1)
The Du Bois-Atlanta School
58(1)
Sociological Theory to Midcentury
59(6)
The Rise of Harvard, the Ivy League, and Structural Functionalism
59(1)
Talcott Parsons [1902-19791
59(2)
George Homans (1910-19891
61(1)
Developments in Marxian Theory
62(3)
Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge
65(1)
Sociological Theory from Midcentury
65(10)
Structural Functionalism: Peak and Decline
65(1)
Radical Sociology in America: C. Wright Mills
66(1)
The Development of Conflict Theory
66(2)
The Birth of Exchange Theory
68(1)
Dramaturgical Analysis: The Work of Erving Goffman
69(1)
The Development of Sociologies of Everyday Life
69(1)
Phenomenotogical Sociology and the Work of Alfred Schutz 11899-19591
70(1)
Ethnomethodology
70(1)
Marxian Sociology
71(1)
The Challenge of Feminist Theory
72(1)
Theories of Race and Colonialism
73(1)
Structuralism and Poststructuralism
74(1)
Late Twentieth-Century Integrative Theory
75(2)
Micro-Macro Integration
75(1)
Agency-Structure Integration
75(1)
Theoretical Syntheses
76(1)
Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity
77(2)
The Defenders of Modernity
77(1)
The Proponents of Postmodernity
78(1)
Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century
79(3)
Theories of Consumption
79(1)
Theories of Globalization
80(1)
Theories of Science, Technology, and Society
81(1)
Summary
82(3)
PART II CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
85(420)
Chapter 3 Alexis de Tocqueville
87(24)
Comparative Study
92(2)
American Politics
94(1)
The Sociology in Tocqueville's Work
95(7)
Mores
95(2)
Social Class
97(1)
Individualism
97(2)
Civil Associations
99(1)
Materialism
99(1)
Social Change
100(2)
The Key Sociological Problem(s)
102(3)
Stagnation
102(1)
Equality
102(1)
Despotism
103(1)
Centralization
103(2)
Freedom, Democracy, and Socialism
105(2)
Colonialism
107(2)
Contemporary Applications
109(1)
Summary
110(1)
Chapter 4 Auguste Comte
111(22)
Comte's Profound Ambitions
111(6)
Positivism: The Search for Invariant Laws
111(2)
Law of the Three Stages
113(2)
Positivism: The Search for Order and Progress
115(2)
Comte's Sociology
117(7)
Social Statics
117(1)
The Individual in Comte's Theory
118(1)
Collective Phenomena
119(2)
Social Dynamics
121(1)
History
122(2)
Theory and Practice
124(4)
Who Will Support Positivism?
124(2)
The Working Class
126(1)
Women
127(1)
Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions
127(1)
Criticisms and Contributions
128(4)
Positive Contributions
129(1)
Basic Weaknesses in Comte's Theory
130(2)
Summary
132(1)
Chapter 5 Herbert Spencer
133(22)
Spencer and Comte
134(3)
General Theoretical Principles
137(2)
Evolutionary Theory
137(2)
Sociology
139(4)
Defining the Science of Sociology
139(1)
Legitimizing Sociology
139(1)
Sociology and Biology
139(1)
Sociology and Psychology
139(2)
Sociological Methods
141(1)
Difficulties Facing Sociology
141(1)
Spencer's Approach
142(1)
The Evolution of Society
143(6)
Simple and Compounded Societies
146(1)
Militant and Industrial Societies
146(3)
Ethics and Politics
149(3)
Criticisms and Contemporary Applications
152(1)
Summary
153(2)
Chapter 6 Karl Marx
155(34)
Introduction
155(2)
The Dialectic
157(1)
Dialectical Method
158(2)
Fact and Value
158(1)
Reciprocal Relations
158(1)
Past, Present, Future
159(1)
No Inevitabilities
159(1)
Actors and Structures
160(1)
Human Potential
160(7)
Labor
163(2)
Alienation
165(2)
The Structures of Capitalist Society
167(8)
Commodities
168(1)
Fetishism of Commodities
169(1)
Capital, Capitalists, and the Proletariat
170(1)
Exploitation
171(2)
Class Conflict
173(2)
Capitalism as a Good Thing
175(1)
Materialist Conception of History
175(2)
Cultural Aspects of Capitalist Society
177(4)
Ideology
177(1)
Freedom, Equality, and Ideology
178(2)
Religion
180(1)
Marx's Economics: A Case Study
181(2)
Communism
183(2)
Criticisms
185(1)
Contemporary Applications
186(1)
Summary
187(2)
Chapter 7 Emile Durkheim
189(36)
Introduction
189(2)
Social Facts
191(8)
Material and Nonmaterial Social Facts
194(1)
Types of Nonmaterial Social Facts
195(1)
Morality
195(1)
Collective Conscience
196(1)
Collective Representations
196(1)
Social Currents
197(2)
The Division of Labor in Society
199(6)
Mechanical and Organic Solidarity
200(1)
Dynamic Density
201(1)
Repressive and Restitutive Law
201(1)
Normal and Pathological
202(1)
Justice
203(2)
Suicide
205(5)
The Four Types of Suicide
207(1)
Egoistic Suicide
207(1)
Altruistic Suicide
208(1)
Anomic Suicide
208(1)
Fatalistic Suicide
209(1)
Suicide Rates and Social Reform
209(1)
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
210(7)
Early and Late Durkheimian Theory
210(1)
Theory of Religion---The Sacred and the Profane
211(1)
Beliefs, Rituals, and Church
212(1)
Why Primitive?
212(1)
Collective Effervescence
213(1)
Totemism
214(1)
Sociology of Knowledge
215(1)
Categories of Understanding
216(1)
Moral Education and Social Reform
217(3)
Morality
217(1)
Moral Education
218(1)
Occupational Associations
219(1)
Criticisms
220(2)
Contemporary Applications
222(1)
Summary
223(2)
Chapter 8 Max Weber
225(44)
Methodology
226(10)
History and Sociology
226(3)
Verstehen
229(1)
Causality
230(1)
Ideal Types
231(2)
Values
233(1)
Values and Teaching
233(1)
Values and Research
234(2)
Substantive Sociology
236(29)
What Is Sociology?
236(1)
Social Action
237(1)
Class, Status, and Party
238(1)
Structures of Authority
239(1)
Rational-Legal Authority
240(3)
Traditional Authority
243(1)
Charismatic Authority
244(1)
Types of Authority and the "Real World"
245(1)
Rationalization
246(1)
Types of Rationality
247(1)
An Overarching Theory?
248(1)
Formal and Substantive Rationality
249(1)
Rationalization in Various Social Settings
250(6)
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
256(3)
Paths to Salvation
259(3)
Religion and Capitalism in China
262(2)
Religion and Capitalism in India
264(1)
Criticisms
265(1)
Contemporary Applications
266(2)
Summary
268(1)
Chapter 9 Georg Simmel
269(32)
Primary Concerns
270(5)
Levels and Areas of Concern
271(1)
Dialectical Thinking
272(1)
Fashion
273(1)
Life
273(1)
More-Life and More-Than-Life
274(1)
Individual Consciousness and Individuality
275(1)
Social Interaction ("Association")
276(6)
Interaction: Forms and Types
277(1)
Social Geometry
278(2)
Social Types
280(1)
Social Forms
281(1)
Social Structures and Worlds
282(1)
Objective Culture
283(3)
The Philosophy of Money
286(6)
Money and Value
287(1)
Money, Reification, and Rationalization
287(2)
Negative Effects
289(2)
Tragedy of Culture
291(1)
Secrecy: A Case Study in Simmel's Sociology
292(4)
Secrecy and Social Relationships
294(1)
Other Thoughts on Secrecy
295(1)
Criticisms
296(2)
Contemporary Applications
298(1)
Summary
299(2)
Chapter 10 Early Women Sociologists and Classical Sociological Theory: 1830-1930
301(38)
Patricia Madoo Lengermann Gillian Niebrugge
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
304(5)
The Social Role of the Sociologist
306(1)
The Organization of Society
306(1)
Morals and Manners
306(1)
Anomaly
307(1)
Methods
307(1)
"Things" and Sympathy
307(1)
Feminism
308(1)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-19351
309(6)
The Organization of Society
309(1)
The Sexuo-Economic Relation
309(3)
Origins of Gender Stratification
312(1)
Androcentric Culture
313(1)
Public and Private Spheres
313(1)
Feminism
313(1)
Erasure
314(1)
Jane Addams (1860-1935) and the Chicago Women's School
315(10)
The Social Role of the Sociologist
316(1)
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
316(1)
The Basic Thesis
317(1)
Methods
317(1)
The Organization of Society
318(1)
Human Nature and Ethics
319(1)
The Social Ethic
320(2)
The Chicago Women's School
322(1)
The Organization of Society and Social Rote of the Sociologist
322(1)
Methods
323(1)
Collective Action and Social Change
323(2)
Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) and Ida Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)
325(4)
Methods
325(2)
The Lens of Race Relations
327(1)
Groups and Power
327(1)
Intersections: Race, Gender, Class
328(1)
The Organization of Society
328(1)
Vantage Point and "the Singing Something"
329(1)
Marianne Schnitger Weber (1870-1954)
329(3)
The Standpoint of Women
330(1)
Gender and Power: Authority and Autonomy
330(1)
Gender and Culture: Objective Culture, Personal Culture, and the "Middle Ground of Daily Life"
331(1)
Differences among Women
331(1)
Social Change
332(1)
Beatrice Potter Webb (1858-1943)
332(3)
Method: Natural Experiments
333(1)
Social Change: Permeation
334(1)
The Social Role of the Sociologist
334(1)
Contemporary Applications
335(1)
Summary
336(3)
Chapter 11 W. E. B. Du Bois
339(24)
Intellectual Influences
341(4)
Science and Positivism
341(2)
German Historicism and Romanticism
343(1)
Marxism
344(1)
Studying Race Scientifically: The Philadelphia Negro
345(6)
Crime
348(1)
Social Inequality: Caste and Class
349(1)
The Benevolent Despot
350(1)
Appeal to White Self-Interest
350(1)
Theoretical Contributions
351(6)
The Race Concept
351(3)
The Veil
354(2)
Double Consciousness or "Twoness"
356(1)
Economics
357(1)
Karl Marx, Socialism, and Communism
358(3)
Contemporary Applications
361(1)
Summary
362(1)
Chapter 12 Thorstein Veblen
363(24)
Intellectual Influences
363(4)
Marxian Theory
364(1)
Evolutionary Theory
365(1)
Economic Theory
366(1)
Basic Premises
367(5)
Human Nature
367(3)
Instinct of Workmanship
370(1)
Parental Bent
370(1)
Idle Curiosity
370(1)
Emulation
371(1)
The Industrial Arts
371(1)
Cultural Lag
372(1)
Substantive Issues
372(12)
Theory of the Leisure Class
372(2)
Conspicuous Leisure
374(1)
Conspicuous Consumption
374(1)
Waste
375(1)
Other Characteristics
376(2)
Business versus Industry
378(1)
Business
378(1)
Industry
378(2)
Free Income
380(1)
The Price System
381(1)
Who Should Be in Charge?
381(1)
The Impact of Industry and the Machine on Society
382(1)
Trained Incapacity
383(1)
Politics
383(1)
Criticisms and Contemporary Applications
384(1)
Summary
385(2)
Chapter 13 Joseph Schumpeter
387(20)
Creative Destruction
387(4)
Schumpeter's Broader Economic Theory
391(3)
Toward a More Dynamic Theory of the Economy
394(3)
Schumpeter's Sociology
397(6)
Marx, Weber, and Rationalization
399(4)
The Future
403(1)
Contemporary Applications
404(1)
Summary
405(2)
Chapter 14 Karl Mannheim
407(26)
The Sociology of Knowledge
408(10)
The Sociology of Knowledge and the Theory of Ideology
408(1)
Generations
409(2)
Politics
411(1)
A Sociological Approach
412(1)
Positivism
412(1)
Phenomenology
413(1)
A Sociology of the Sociology of Knowledge
414(1)
Relativism and Relationism
415(1)
The Intelligentsia
416(1)
Weltanschauung
417(1)
Steps in Practicing the Sociology of Knowledge
418(1)
Ideology and Utopia
418(6)
Ideology
418(2)
Utopia
420(3)
Disenchantment
423(1)
Hope for the Future
424(1)
Rationality and the Irrationality of the Times
424(5)
Types of Rationality and Irrationality
426(3)
Criticisms and Contemporary Applications
429(1)
Summary
430(3)
Chapter 15 George Herbert Mead
433(24)
Intellectual Roots
434(4)
Behaviorism
434(1)
Pragmatism
435(3)
Dialectics
438(1)
The Priority of the Social
438(1)
The Act
439(3)
Stages
439(1)
Gestures
440(1)
Significant Symbols
441(1)
Mental Processes and the Mind
442(3)
Intelligence
443(1)
Consciousness
444(1)
Mind
445(1)
Self
445(6)
Child Development
446(1)
Play Stage
446(1)
Game Stage
447(1)
Generalized Other
447(3)
"I" and "Me"
450(1)
Society
451(1)
Criticisms and Contemporary Applications
452(2)
Summary
454(3)
Chapter 16 Alfred Schutz
457(24)
The Ideas of Edmund Husserl
458(3)
Science and the Social World
461(4)
Life-World versus Science
462(1)
Constructing Ideal Types
463(2)
Typifications and Recipes
465(1)
The Life-World
466(1)
Intersubjectivity
467(3)
Knowledge
468(2)
Private Components of Knowledge
470(1)
Realms of the Social World
470(5)
Folgewelt and Vorwelt
471(1)
Umwelt and We Relations
471(2)
Mitwelt and They Relations
473(2)
Consciousness, Meanings, and Motives
475(2)
Criticisms and Contemporary Applications
477(2)
Summary
479(2)
Chapter 17 Talcott Parsons
481(24)
Parsons's Integrative Efforts
481(3)
General Principles
484(8)
Philosophical and Theoretical Roots
484(1)
Action Theory
485(1)
Parsons's Action Theory
486(1)
The Turn Away from Action Theory
486(1)
Need-Dispositions
487(1)
Motivational Orientations
488(1)
Value Orientations
488(1)
Pattern Variables
489(1)
AGIL
490(1)
Consistency in Parsonsian Theory: Integration and Order
491(1)
The Action System
492(8)
Social System
494(1)
Actors and the Social System
495(2)
Cultural System
497(1)
Personality System
498(1)
Behavioral Organism
499(1)
Change and Dynamism in Parsonsian Theory
500(2)
Evolutionary Theory
500(1)
Generalized Media of Interchange
501(1)
Criticisms and Contemporary Applications
502(1)
Summary
503(2)
References 505(48)
Name Index 553(12)
Subject Index 565

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