TY - BOOK AU - Stoetzler,Marcel TI - Beginning classical social theory T2 - Beginnings SN - 1784991457 AV - H61.15 .S76 2017 U1 - 301.01 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - Social sciences KW - Philosophy KW - Sociology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Introduction: If it is not mysterious, it is not social theory --; 2; The well-planned reorganisation of society : Auguste Comte --; 3; If you can't beat democracy, join it : Alexis de Tocqueville --; 4; Pariahs of the world, unite! : Flora Tristan --; 5; Capitalist modernity is the real savagery : rKarl Marx --; 6; The conflict of community and society : Ferdinand Tönnies --; 7; There is some Thing out there : Emile Durkheim --; 8; The double consciousness : W. E. B. Du Bois --; 9; From good to bad capitalism and back : Max Weber --; 10; Strangers who are from here : Georg Simmel --; 11; Love, marriage and patriarchy : Marianne Weber --; 12; Critical versus traditional theory : Max Horkheimer --; 13; What is a woman, and who is asking anyway : Simone de Beauvoir --; 14; Society as mediation : Theodor W. Adorno N2 - “Beginning classical social theory introduces students and educated general readers to thirteen key social theorists by way of examining a single, exemplary text by each author, ranging from Comte to Adorno. It answers the need for a book that helps students develop the skill to critically read theory. Rather than learning how to admire the canonical theorists, readers are alerted to the flow of their arguments and the texts' contradictions and limitations.”--Publisher's website. ER -