Classical social theory /
Ian Craib.
- xxv, 297 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-291) and index.
Chapter summaries -- List of boxes -- What's the point? -- The main characters and the main ideas -- Durkheim: the discovery of social facts -- Karl Marx: the primacy of production -- Max Weber: the primacy of social action -- Georg Simmel: society as form and process - the outsider's view -- Durkheim: drunk and orderly -- Was Marx a Marxist? -- The liberal Weber -- Simmel: the social and the personal -- Durkheim's organic analogy -- Marx and the meaning of history -- Weber as a tragic liberal: the rise of the West -- Simmel: countering an overdose of history? -- Conclusion: the framework of social theory -- Dramatis personae -- T. W. Adorno -- Louis Althusser -- Henri Bergson -- Auguste Comte -- Charles Darwin -- Friedrich Engels -- Ludwig Feuerbach -- Michel Foucault -- Sigmund Freud -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- Immanuel Kant -- Soren Kierkegaard -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- Georg Lukacs -- Karl Mannheim -- Herbert Marcuse -- George Herbert Mead -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Robert Michels -- John Stuart Mill -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Talcott Parsons -- David Ricardo -- Heinrich Rickert -- Claude-Henri de Rouvroy Saint-Simon -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Adam Smith -- Herbert Spencer -- Ferdinand Tonnies -- Leon Trotsky -- Karl Wittfogel -- Glossary -- References -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.