TY  - BOOK
AU  - Craib, Ian
TI  - Classical social theory
SN  - 0198781172
U1  - 301.01 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Social sciences--Philosophy
KW  - Sociology--Philosophy
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Sociology
N1  - 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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