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Classical social theory/ Ian Craib

By: Craib, Ian Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: Oxford University Press, 1997Description: xxiv, 297 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0198781172Subject(s): Social sciences--Philosophy | Sociology--Philosophy | Social sciences | SociologyDDC classification: 301.01

Contents:

What's the point? -- The main characters and the main ideas -- What is society and how do we study it? 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, an outsider's view -- Conclusion to part 1 : the first basic dualism of social theory -- Conceptions of social structure. Durkheim : drunk and orderly -- Was Marx a Marxist? -- The liberal Weber -- Simmel : the social and the personal -- Conclusion to part 2 : the theorists contrasted -- History and social change. 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.

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General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	301.01 CRA/C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P03166

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What's the point? --
The main characters and the main ideas --
What is society and how do we study it? 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, an outsider's view --
Conclusion to part 1 : the first basic dualism of social theory --
Conceptions of social structure. Durkheim : drunk and orderly --
Was Marx a Marxist? --
The liberal Weber --
Simmel : the social and the personal --
Conclusion to part 2 : the theorists contrasted --
History and social change. 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.

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