The Emergence Of Sociological Theory,9780495127284

The Emergence Of Sociological Theory

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Edition: 6th
ISBN13: 9780495127284
ISBN10: 0495127280
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-03-29
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary

Sociology should be interesting. After all, it's about people! THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY is just that: interesting. Inside, you'll discover the major theories of why groups of people act the way they do, and how you can use those theories in your daily life. It's easy to understand and packed with study tools, making THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY the best of its kind on the market and the one that will help you get the grade you need.

Table of Contents

ABOUT THE AUTHORS xi
PREFACE xiii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
1 The Enlightenment and New Ways of Thinking
1(7)
The Enlightenment
2(2)
The Political Economy of the Enlightenment
4(2)
The Emergence of Sociology
6(2)
2 The Origin and Context of Auguste Comte's Sociology
8(16)
The Strange Biography of Auguste Comte
8(3)
The Intellectual Origins of Comte's Thought
11(10)
Montesquieu and Comte
12(1)
Tuigot and Comte
13(3)
Condorcet and Comte
16(1)
Saint-Simon and Comte
17(4)
Conclusion
21(3)
Liberal Elements in Comte's Thought
22(1)
Traditional Elements in Comte's Thought
22(2)
3 The Sociology of Auguste Comte
24(16)
Comte's Early Essays
25(2)
Comte's Course of Positive Philosophy
27(11)
Comte's View of Sociological Theory
27(3)
Comte's Formulation of Sociological Methods
30(1)
Comte's Organization of Sociology
31(5)
Comte's Advocacy of Sociology
36(2)
Critical Conclusions
38(2)
4 The Origin and Context of Herbert Spencer's Thought
40(11)
Biographical Influences on Spencerian Sociology
40(4)
The Political Economy of Nineteenth-Century England
44(1)
The Scientific Milieu of Spencer's England
45(3)
Influences from Biology
45(2)
Influences from the Physical Sciences
47(1)
Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy and the Sociology of Comte
48(1)
Why Read Spencer?
49(2)
5 The Sociology of Herbert Spencer
51(39)
Spencer's Moral Philosophy: Social Statics and Principles of Ethics
52(2)
Spencer's First Principles
54(2)
Spencer's The Study of Sociology
56(4)
The Methodological Problems Confronting Sociology
57(2)
The Theoretical Argument
59(1)
A Note on Spencer's Descriptive Sociology
60(3)
Spencer's Principles of Sociology
63(20)
The Superorganic and the Organismic Analogy
64(2)
The Analysis of Superorganic Dynamics
66(17)
The Analysis of Societal Institutions
83(5)
Domestic Institutions and Kinship
83(1)
Ceremonial Institutions
84(1)
Political Institutions
85(1)
Religious Institutions
86(1)
Economic Institutions
87(1)
Critical Conclusions
88(2)
6 The Origin and Context of Karl Marx's Thought
90(26)
Biographical Influences on Marx's Thought
90(7)
Hegel and the Young Hegelians
91(1)
Paris and Brussels
92(3)
The London Years
95(2)
G.W.F. Hegel and Karl Marx
97(4)
Hegel's Idealism
97(1)
Marx's Rejection of Hegel's Idealism
98(2)
Marx's Acceptance of Hegel's Dialectical Method
100(1)
Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl Marx
101(3)
The Young Hegelians and Marx's Thought
101(2)
Feuerbach and Marx's Thought
103(1)
Adam Smith and Karl Marx
104(5)
Political Economy and Marx's Thought
105(1)
Adam Smith's Influence
105(4)
Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
109(8)
Engels's Critique of Political Economy
109(2)
Engels's Analysis of the Working Class
111(5)
7 The Sociology of Karl Marx 116(95)
The German Ideology
117(7)
The Nature of Social Theory
117(1)
The Characteristics of All Societies
118(3)
Marx's Theoretical Methodology
121(3)
The Communist Manifesto
124(14)
Bourgeoisie and Proletarians
125(4)
Proletarians and Communists
129(2)
Socialist and Communist Literature
131(1)
Communist and Other Opposition Parties
132(1)
Marx's View of Capitalism in Historical Context
133(2)
Marx's Model of Stratification and Class Conflict
135(3)
Capital
138(9)
The Labor Theory of Value
139(2)
Surplus Value
141(2)
The Demise of Capitalism
143(2)
Capitalism in Historical Context
145(2)
Critical Conclusions
147(5)
Substantive Contradictions
147(1)
Where Prophecy Fails
148(2)
Is Marx Still Relevant?
150(2)
8 The Origin and Context of Max Weber's Thought
152(18)
Biographical Influences on Weber's Thought
152(1)
The Early Years
152(6)
Before the Breakdown
154(2)
The Transition to Sociology
156(2)
Karl Marx and Max Weber
158(2)
The Nature of Science
159(1)
The Inevitability of History
159(1)
Economic Determinism
160(1)
The Methodenstreit and Max Weber
160(4)
Methodological Issues Dividing Historical and Theoretical
161(1)
Weber's Response to the Methodenstreit
162(2)
Wilhelm Dilthey and Max Weber
164(2)
Dilthey's Methodology of the Social Sciences
164(2)
Weber's Response to Dilthey's Work
166(1)
Heinrich Rickert and Max Weber
166(2)
Weber's Response to Rickert
168(1)
Weber's Theoretical Synthesis
168(2)
9 The Sociology of Max Weber
170(41)
Weber's Methodology of the Social Sciences
171(5)
The Problem of Values
171(2)
Ideal Types
173(3)
Weber's Image of Social Organization
176(4)
Weber's Analysis of Domination
180(14)
Types of Domination
180(5)
Social Stratification: Class, Status Group, and Party
185(6)
Weber's Model of Social Change
191(1)
Weber's Model of Stratification and Geopolitics
192(2)
Weber on Capitalism and Rationalization
194(2)
Weber's Study of Religion
196(11)
The Quasi-Experimental Design
197(2)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
199(6)
Weber's Comparative Studies of Religion and Capitalism
205(2)
Weber's Outline of the Social System
207(2)
Critical Conclusions
209(2)
10 The Origin and Context of Georg Simmel's Thought 211(12)
Biographical Influences on Simmel's Thought
211(4)
Simmel's Marginality
211(1)
Simmel's Intellectual Career
212(3)
Intellectual Influences on Simmel's Thought
215(7)
A Note on Simmel and Weber
215(1)
Herbert Spencer, Social Darwinism, and Simmel's Thought
216(1)
Immanuel Kant and Simmel's Thought
217(3)
Karl Marx and Simmel's Thought
220(2)
The Enigmatic Simmel
222(1)
11 The Sociology of Georg Simmel 223(31)
Simmel's Methodological Approach to the Study of Society
223(7)
What Is Society?
225(1)
How Should Sociology Study Society?
225(2)
What Are the Problem Areas of Sociology?
227(3)
The Web of Group Affiliations
230(5)
The Web of Group Affiliations as a Social Form
231(1)
Structural Changes Accompanying Social Differentiation
231(2)
The Consequences of Differentiation
233(2)
Conflict
235(7)
Conflict as a Social Form
235(1)
Conflict Within Groups
236(3)
Conflict Between Groups
239(3)
The Philosophy of Money
242(10)
Exchange as a Social Form
242(1)
Simmel's Assumptions about Human Nature
243(2)
Money in Social Exchange
245(2)
Money and Its Consequences for Social Relations
247(5)
Critical Conclusions
252(2)
12 The Origin and Context of Emile Durkheim's Thought 254(25)
Biographical Influences on Durkheim's Thought
254(3)
Charles Montesquieu and Durkheim
257(6)
Montesquieu as the First Social Scientist
257(2)
Montesquieu's View of "Laws"
259(1)
Montesquieu's Typology of Governments
260(1)
The Causes and Functions of Governments
261(2)
Jean Jacques Rousseau and Durkheim
263(5)
Rousseau's Doctrine
264(1)
Specific Influences on Durkheim
265(3)
Auguste Comte and Durkheim
268(3)
The Science of Positivism
268(1)
The Methodological Tenets of Positivism
269(1)
Social Statics and Dynamics
270(1)
Science and Social Progress
271(1)
Alexis De Tocqueville and Durkheim
271(3)
Tocqueville's Democracy in America
272(1)
Specific Influences on Durkheim
273(1)
Herbert Spencer and Durkheim
274(2)
Durkheim and Spencerian Utilitarianism
274(1)
Durkheim and Spencerian Organicism
275(1)
Durkheim and Spencerian Evolutionism
275(1)
Karl Marx and Durkheim
276(1)
Anticipating Durkheimian Sociology
277(3)
Methodological Tenets
277(1)
Theoretical Strategy
277(1)
Substantive Interests
278(1)
Practical Concerns
278(1)
13 The Sociology of Emile Durkheim 279(38)
The Division of Labor in Society
280(12)
Social Solidarity
280(1)
The Collective Conscience
281(1)
Social Morphology
282(1)
Mechanical and Organic Solidarity
283(2)
Social Change
285(2)
Social Functions
287(1)
Pathology and Abnormal Forms
288(4)
The Rules of the Sociological Method
292(5)
What Is a Social Fact?
293(1)
Rules for the Observation of Social Facts
294(1)
Rules for Distinguishing Between the Normal and the Pathological
295(1)
Rules for the Classification of Social Types
295(1)
Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts
295(1)
Rules for Establishing Sociological Proofs
296(1)
Suicide
297(5)
Types of Suicide
297(3)
Suicide and Social Integration
300(1)
Suicide and Deviance
300(1)
Suicide and the Social Organization of Organic Societies
301(1)
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
302(9)
An Overview of Durkheim's Argument
304(4)
Some Further Implications of Elementary Forms
308(3)
A Science of "Morality"
311(3)
What Is Morality?
312(2)
Critical Conclusions
314(3)
14 The Origin and Context of George Herbert Mead's Thought 317(22)
Biographical Influences on Mead's Thought
317(2)
Mead's Synthesis of Schools of Thought
319(7)
Utilitarianism
319(1)
Darwinism
320(1)
Pragmatism
321(2)
Behaviorism
323(3)
Wilhelm Wundt and Mead
326(2)
Wundt's View of Gestures
327(1)
Wundt's View of "Mental Communities"
328(1)
William James and Mead
328(4)
James's Pragmatism
329(1)
James's View of Consciousness
329(1)
James's View of Self-Consciousness
330(2)
Charles Horton Cooley and Mead
332(4)
Cooley's View of Social Organization
332(1)
Cooley's View of Interaction
333(1)
Cooley's View of Self
333(2)
Cooley's View of Primary Groups
335(1)
John Dewey and Mead
336(2)
Dewey's Pragmatism
336(1)
Dewey's View of Thinking
337(1)
Mead's Synthesis
338(1)
15 The Sociology of George Herbert Mead 339(34)
Mead's Broader Philosophy
339(1)
Mind, Self, and Society
340(24)
Mead's View of the "Life Process"
341(1)
Mead's Social Behaviorism
342(1)
Mead's Behavioristic View of Mind
343(5)
Mead's Behavioristic View of Self
348(9)
Mead's Conception of Society
357(7)
The Philosophy of the Act
364(6)
Impulse
365(1)
Perception
366(1)
Manipulation
366(2)
Consummation
368(2)
Critical Conclusions
370(3)
NAME INDEX 373(2)
SUBJECT INDEX 375

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