The discovery of society /
Collins, Randall, 1941-
The discovery of society / Randall Collins and Michael Makowsky. - Sixth edition. - viii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Society and illusion -- The vicissitudes of nineteenth-century rationalism -- The prophets of Paris: Saint-Simon and Comte -- Sociology in the underground: Karl Marx -- The last gentleman: Alexis de Tocqueville -- Nietzsche's madness -- Do-gooders, evolutionists, and racists -- The great breakthrough -- Dreyfus's empire: Emile Durkheim and Georges Sorel -- Max Weber: the disenchantment of the world -- Sigmund Freud: conquistador of the irrational -- The discovery of the invisible world: Simmel, Cooley, and Mead -- The vicissitudes of twentieth-century sophistication -- The discovery of the ordinary world: Thomas, Park, and the Chicago School -- The emergence of African-American sociology: DuBois, Frazier, Drake, and Cayton -- The construction of the social system: Pareto and Parsons -- Hitler's shadow: Michels, Mannheim, and Mills -- Erving Goffman and the theater of social encounters -- Contemporary sociological theory in France, Germany, and the United States -- The impact of women in sociology in the late twentieth century.
0070118833 9780070118836 0071156755 9780071156752
97011606
Sociology--History.
HM19 / .C64 1998
301.09
The discovery of society / Randall Collins and Michael Makowsky. - Sixth edition. - viii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Society and illusion -- The vicissitudes of nineteenth-century rationalism -- The prophets of Paris: Saint-Simon and Comte -- Sociology in the underground: Karl Marx -- The last gentleman: Alexis de Tocqueville -- Nietzsche's madness -- Do-gooders, evolutionists, and racists -- The great breakthrough -- Dreyfus's empire: Emile Durkheim and Georges Sorel -- Max Weber: the disenchantment of the world -- Sigmund Freud: conquistador of the irrational -- The discovery of the invisible world: Simmel, Cooley, and Mead -- The vicissitudes of twentieth-century sophistication -- The discovery of the ordinary world: Thomas, Park, and the Chicago School -- The emergence of African-American sociology: DuBois, Frazier, Drake, and Cayton -- The construction of the social system: Pareto and Parsons -- Hitler's shadow: Michels, Mannheim, and Mills -- Erving Goffman and the theater of social encounters -- Contemporary sociological theory in France, Germany, and the United States -- The impact of women in sociology in the late twentieth century.
0070118833 9780070118836 0071156755 9780071156752
97011606
Sociology--History.
HM19 / .C64 1998
301.09