Classical Sociological Theory

Steven Loyal, Sinisa Malesevic

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781529725711, 9781529725728
• eBook ISBN: 9781529732245
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Introducing the founders of sociological theory – from Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Martineau through to Simmel, DuBois, Mead and others – this accessible textbook locates each thinker within their own social, political and historical context. By doing so, it helps readers to understand the development of central sociological concepts and how they can help us understand the contemporary world.

The book includes:

• Lively biographical sections to help readers get to know each thinker
• Clear and easy-to-understand accounts of each theorist's arguments - and the most common criticisms
• Key concept boxes highlighting the most influential ideas

This comprehensive, enlightening text brings the rich and diverse field of classical sociological theory to life.

Index

• Abolition Acts, US 230
• Absolute/God/Spirit 75–77
• Academy, Athens 8, 12, 15
• Acemoglu, D. 189
• acquisition of goods 21
• Addams, Jane 216, 218, 224, 240
• Adler, Max 200
• Adler, Victor 200
• Adorno, T. W. 81
• Adwa, Battle of 179
• African American Studies 215
• African Americans 201, 215–216
  • conflicts over political strategy 221–222
  • Du Bois’ studies 216–217, 223–231, 232–233
  • Jim Crow laws 201, 221
  • and Reconstruction 220–221, 228–231
  • slavery 57–58, 218–220, 224, 228–229, 230
• Age of Reform movement 239
• agency, black 228, 233
• agency/structure relationship 170–171, 185, 190–191, 254
• Aho, J. A. 207
• Alexander, Jeffrey 149, 212, 253
• Alexander the Great 16
• Algeria, French colonisation 56, 62–63, 82
• alienation 61, 92, 97–98
• Allen, K. 149
• Almohad Empire, North Africa 33
• altruistic suicide 145, 150
• American Civil War (1861–5) 197, 200, 220–221
  • slaves’ role in freeing themselves 228–229
• American Communist Party 217
• American Journal of Sociology 194, 197, 232
• American Revolution 50, 52, 71
• American Sociological Association 197
• Anaximander 8
• Anaximenes 8
• Anderson, P. 11
• Année Sociologique, L’ 135
• anomie 143, 147
• anti-positivism 118, 119
• anti-Semitism 138–139, 155, 196, 200
• Appiah, A. 232
• aristocracy 21–22
  • ancient Greece 12, 17
  • four types of 186–187
  • hated in post-Revolutionary France 47
  • Italy 179
  • monopolistic social closure 122
  • Negro 225
  • US 63–64
  • see also Junkers
• aristocratisation vs. democratisation 183
• Aristotle 6–7, 10, 15–24, 68, 70
  • arguments and ideas 18–22
  • contemporary relevance 22–24
  • criticism of Plato 14–15
  • criticisms 22
  • historical, social and political context 16–18
  • life and intellectual context 15–16
  • Metaphysics 18–19
  • The Nicomachean Ethics 19–20, 22
  • The Politics 20–22
  • relationship with Plato 16
• Arthur, C. J. 97
• asabiya (group feeling) 38–39, 41, 43
• atheism 49, 58, 59
• Atkinson, H. G. 59
• Atlanta Sociological Laboratory 216
• anomic suicide 145
• Aufhebung (sublation) 77
• Austerlitz, Battle of (1805) 72
• Austro-Hungary 199–200
• Austro-Prussian War (1866) 95
• autocracy vs. liberalism 183
• autonomy 151, 161, 211
• Averroes (Ibn Rochd) 29, 30, 33
• Avicenna (Ibn Sina) 29, 30

• barter 166–167
• base-superstructure model 101, 107–108
• Bastian, Herbert 154, 204
• Bauer, Bruno 89, 92
• Bauer, Edgar 89, 92
• Bauer, Otto 200
• Bauman, Zygmunt 128, 168
• Beaumont, Gustave de 47
• Becker, Howard 248, 251–252
• behaviourism 238
• Beiser, F. 74
• Belgium 94, 95, 130, 138
• Bellah, Robert 148
• bellicist tradition 194–212
• Bendix, Richard 167
• Bentley, A. 205
• Bergson, Henri 134
• Berlin 112, 153, 154–155, 156, 157, 158, 159
• Berlin University 68, 88, 113, 154, 195, 205, 216, 237
• Billings, Elizabeth Storrs 236
• Bismarck, Otto von 117, 189
• Black Death 106
• Black/African Studies movement 232
• blacks
  • effects of colonisation 82
  • see also African Americans
• Blumer, Herbert 236, 244, 249–251, 253
• Böhm-Bawerk, Eugene 108
• Booth, Charles 216, 224
• Boudon, Raymond 60
• Boulanger, Georges 138
• Bourdieu, Pierre 24, 66, 84
• bourgeoisie 56, 91, 93, 94, 100, 101, 105, 106–107, 232
• Boutroux, Emile 134
• Bowden, B. 209
• Bowers, Claude G. 228
• Brenner, Robert 105–106
• Brown, John 217
• Brubaker, R. 151, 211
• Bryman, A. 127–128
• bureaucracy 119, 125, 129, 185
• Burgess, John W. 228
• Burghardt, Mary Silvina 215
• Burt, R. 169
• Burton, M. G. 188

• Callinicos, A. 104
• Calvinism 112, 196, 212
  • and capitalism 123–124, 129–130
• Cammack, P. 191
• Campo Formio, Treaty of 71
• capital
  • centralisation and concentration 104–105
  • constant vs. variable 104
  • shift in ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Publisher Note
• Publisher Note
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• About the Authors
• Introduction: The Rise of Social Thought
• I Plato and Aristotle
• II Confucius and Ibn Khaldun
• III Tocqueville and Martineau
• IV Hegel
• V Marx
• VI Weber
• VII Durkheim
• VIII Simmel
• IX Pareto, Mosca and Michels
• X Hintze, Gumplowicz, Ratzenhofer, Ward and Small
• XI Du Bois
• XII Mead
• Index