Marx, Durkheim, Weber: formations of modern social thought / Ken Morrison

1. Introduction --
Origins and Foundations of Modern Social Theory: 1750-1920 --
Modern Social Theory Defined --
Central Subject Matter of Social Theory --
1. Political Change, the Feudal Dynamic and the Revolution in France --
Fall of Feudalism and the Elimination of Social Distinctions --
2. Economic Changes and the Development of Capitalism -- Depopulation, the Enclosure Movement and the Demographic Transfer of the Population -- Growth of Town Economies -- Decline of the Guild System and the Beginning of Capitalist Development -- Management of the Problem Population: Unemployed Idle Laborers and the Dangerous Classes --
3. Dual Movement of Individualism and Industrialization -- Modern Social Thought and the Nineteenth Century Theories of Knowledge -- Classical Idealism -- Hegelian Idealism and the Theory of Historical Development -- Empiricism and the Growth of the Scientific Outlook -- Development of Positivism --

2. Karl Marx --
Historical Context of Karl Marx's Work --
Theoretical Influences on Marx's view of Society and History: The Shift to Materialism --
Rejection of Hegel and Idealist Philosophy --
Materialism as a Theoretical Perspective --
German Ideology --
Fundamental Aims of the Work and The Materialist Theory of History --
Means of Production --
Relations of Production --
Mode of Production, Forces of Production --
Laws of Historical Development: Different Forms of Ownership Over the Means of Production --
Concept of Class and Class Structure --
Class Structure and the System of Social Relations --
Concept of Class and the Relations of Subordination --
Marx's Theory of Ideology --
History of the Term in Hegel and Marx --
Definition of Ideology and its Material Origins --
Five Building Blocks of Marx's Theory of Ideology --
Explaining Contradictions --
Marx's Economic Works: 1850-1867 --
Marx, Capital and the Critique of Political Economy --
Marx's Study of Capitalism: A Social and Historical Definition of Capitalism --
Capital, Vol. 1, Part A. Economic and Social Elements of Capitalism --
Commodities: Use Value and Exchange Value --
Commensurability of Use with Exchange --
Consequences of Exchange on Social Relations --
Labor Theory of Value and the Dual Character of Labor --
Useful vs Abstract Labor --
Useful Labor --
Abstract Labor --
Capital Vol. 1, Part B. Theory of Value --
Origin of Value and the Value Form --
Relative and Equivalent Forms of Value --
Fetishism of Commodities --
Reification of Economy and Society --
Capital Vol. 1, Part C. Theory of Surplus Value --
Free Labor and the Emergence of Labor Power --
Surplus Labor, Surplus Value and the Maintenance of the Worker --
History of Surplus Labor: The Working Day --
Wage Form: Unpaid Labor --
Capital Vol. 1, Part D. Genesis of Capitalism --
Primitive Accumulation --
Stages of Primitive Accumulation --
Cooperation and Division of Labor --
Division of Labor: Simple and Complex Cooperation --
Theory of Alienation -- History of the Concept in Hegel --
Feuerbach's Theory of Religious Alienation --
Marx's Rejection of Feuerbach --
Marx's theory of Alienation and the 1844 Manuscripts --
Marx's Theory of Human Nature --
Alienation from the Product --
Alienation from Productive Activity --
Alienation from Species Activity --
Alienation from Fellow Humans --
Marx's Political Writings --
History of Marx's View of the State --
Hegel's View of the State --
Marx and the Materialist Origins of the State: Base and Superstructure --
Historical Origins of the Modern State: the Period of State Formation --
State and Civil Society in Smith, Hegel and Marx --
Marx's Dialectical View of History: The Theory of Development --
History of the Term 'Dialectic' --
Hegel's Dialectic --
Marx's view of the Dialectic and his Theory of Development --
Difference Between Marx and Hegel in the Dialectical View of History --
Application of the Dialectic to History --


3. Emile Durkheim --
Historical Context of Emile Durkheim's Work --
Theoretical Influences On Durkheim's View of Society --
Auguste Comte's Influence on Durkheim --
Realist Perspective and the Study of Society --
Problem of Individualism and the Utilitarian Theories of Society --
Individualist Theories of Society: Hobbes and Rousseau --
Division of Labor in Society --
Central Thesis and Definition of the Division of Labor --
Concept of Social Solidarity and Social Cohesion --
Characteristics of Mechanical and Organic Solidarity --
Characteristics of Organic Solidarity --
Common Conscience and the Division of Labor --
System of Laws and Social Solidarity: Repressive and Restitutive Sanctions --
Penal Law and Repressive Sanctions --
Contract Law and Restitutive Sanctions --
Transition from Penal Law to Contract Law --
Transition from Segmental Societies to Advanced Societies --
Main Causes of the Division of Labor --
Proceess of Individualism and the Division of Labor --
Abnormal Developments in the Division of Labor: Anomie and the Forced Division of Labor --
Rules of Sociological Method --
Central Aims of the Rules --
Establishing the Existence of Social Realities Outside the Individual --
Existence of Social Facts and their Differences from Individual Facts --
Characteristics of Social Facts and Their Observation --
Problems in Observing Social Facts --
Collective Representations --
Social Morphology and the Classification of Social Types --
Durkheim's Study of Suicide --
Historical Background and Central Thesis --
Shift From a Psychological to a Social Theory of Suicide --
Opposition to Durkheim's Argument and the 'Corridor Incident' --
Concept of the Social Suicide Rate --
Suicide and the Concept of Social Integration --
Suicide the Integrative Pole: Egoistic and Altruistic Suicide --
Religious Integration and Egoistic Suicide --
Family Integration and Egoistic Suicide --
Political Integration and Egoistic Suicide --
Explanation of Egoism and Egoistic Suicide --
Altruistic Suicide and Social Integration --
Military vs Civilian Suicides --
Suicide and the Regulative Pole: Anomic and Fatalistic Suicide --
Causes of Anomie and the Role Played by the Economy --
History of the Term Anomie --
Fatalistic Suicide --
Elementary Form of the Religious Life --
Historical Context of the Work --
Fundamental Aims of the Study --
Central Argument: Durkheim's Search for a Definition of Religion --
Search for the Most Elementary Religion: The Totem Tribes of Central Australia --
Totem and the Social Classification of the Universe: The Fundamental Organizing Principle --
Two Phases of Social Life: Effervescent Assemblies and the Birth of the 'Religious' --
Material Effects of Religious Enactments --
Durkheim's Theory of the Social Origin of the Categories of Understanding --
Durkheim's Opposition to Philosophy --
Durkheim's Theory of the Categories and his Opposition to Kant and Hume --
Durkheim's Evidence for the Social Origins of the Categories: Space as a Social Category --
Durkheim's Evidence: Time as a Social Category --
Durkheim's Evidence: The Social Origin of the Concept of Cause --
Durkheim's Theory of the Categories of Understanding: Criticism and Debate --
Warren Schmaus' View of Durkheim's Theory of the Categories --
Anne Rawls' View of Durkheim's Theory of the Categories --
Debate Between Schmaus and Rawls on the Origins of the Categories --
Durkheim's Battle with Classical Rationalism: The Critique of Philosophy --


4. Max Weber --
Historical Context of Max Weber's Work --
Weber's Theoretical Perspective and Fundamental Themes in his Work --
Weber's Difference From Marx --
Weber's View of History and the Continuity of Civilization Processes --
Theme of Rationalization in Weber's Work --
Rationalization Defined --
Rationalization and Religious World Views Calculation and the Process of Rationalization --
Distinction between Rationality and Rationalization --
Theme of Capitalism in Weber's Work.