Summary
Overview
Key Readings
This four-volume set presents an unrivalled collection of the key literature in European sociology. The prestigious texts range across the European tradition from enlightenment to contemporary theory. The collection explodes the myth that the European tradition in sociology is a debate with the ghosts of Karl Marx and Max Weber, demonstrating that the tradition is far more deeply rooted and broadly based.
Volume 1 is devoted to the emergence of European sociology. The contribution of classical political economy and the Enlightenment is examined. Commentaries on the work of Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Taine, Rousseau, de Tocqueville, Comte and St. Simon are included. The volume creates a vivid and compelling picture of the origins of European sociology.
Volume 2 covers the rise of the classical period in social theory. ...
General Introduction: The Classical Tradition in European Sociology
I. The History of Sociology: A Viewpoint
By opting to present the reader with exegetic texts on sociologists that have shaped the discipline as well as systems of thought and schools, we intend to pursue several objectives. Instead of inviting the reader to visit or to revisit its classics through an anthology or requiring him/her to place it in a historical perspective, we have chosen a totally different outlook. We are offering various readings of the history of sociology written by sociologists and historians of the discipline that have both the required erudition and the necessary problematics for the formulation of principles that govern the segmentation of our intellectual field and its periodization:
Our viewpoint starts from the assumption ...
Table of Contents
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Volume I
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The Emergence of European Sociology: From the Enlightenment to the Founding Fathers
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1. The Contract and the Method of the Social Sciences
Ernst Cassirer
1951
The Philosophy of Enlightenment
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2. The Enlightenment and Social Science
Peter Hamilton
1996
Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies
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3. Hobbes: Political Obligation of the Market — Models of Society
C. MacPherson
1962
The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke
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4. Locke: The Political Theory of Appropriation
C. MacPherson
1962
The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke
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5. Quantification in Sociology: The Preparatory Period
Paul Lazarsfeld
1960
Isis
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6. Montesquieu's Contribution to the Establishment of Political Science
Émile Durkheim
1997
Montesquieu: Quid Secundatus Politicae Scientiae Instituendae Contulerit
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Émile Durkheim
1997
Montesquieu: Quid Secundatus Politicae Scientiae Instituendae Contulerit
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8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Founder of the Sciences of Man
Claude Lévi-Strauss
1968
Structural Anthropology
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9. Origins of Sociology: The Case of the Scottish Enlightenment
Alan Swingewood
1970
British Journal of Sociology
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10. Condorcet: The Moral and Political Sciences
Keith Baker
1975
Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics
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11. Mathematics and the Moral Sciences: The Rise and Fall of the Probability of Judgments, 1785–1840
Lorraine Daston
1981
Epistemological and Social Problems of the Sciences in the Early Nineteenth Century
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12. Quantification in Sociology: Quetelet and his “Statistique Morale”
Paul Lazarsfeld
1960
Isis
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13. The Laws That Govern Chaos
Theodore Porter
1986
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820–7900
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14. Cabanis and the Idéologues
Johan Heilbron
1995
The Rise of Social Theory
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15. Conservatism
Robert Nisbet
1979
A History of Sociological Analysis
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Raymond Aron
1968
Main Currents in Sociological Thought 1
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17. The Cognitivist Model: An Example from de Tocqueville
Raymond Boudon
1995
Rationality and Society
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18. Comte de Saint-Simon: The Pear is Ripe
Frank Manuel
1962
The Prophets of Paris
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19. Theory of Knowledge and Theory of Science in the Work of Auguste Comte: Note on Comte's Originality
Johan Heilbron
1991
Revue de Synthèse
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Tom Bottomore
1979
A History of Sociological Analysis
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Volume II
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The Emergence of European Sociology: From the Enlightenment to the Founding Fathers
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21. La Philosophie Sociale et la Sociologie de Proudhon
Georges Gurvitch
1965
Proudhon. Sa Vie. Son Oeuvre
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22. Images of History in Hegel and Marx
G. Cohen
1978
Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence
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23. Herbert Spencer: The Evolution of a Sociologist
J. Peel
1971
Herbert Spencer: The Evolution of a Sociologist
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24. Herbert Spencer
Raymond Boudon
1989
A Critical Dictionary of Sociology
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25. Hushing Up Death
Robert Bannister
1979
Social Darwinism
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Rudolf Makkreel
1969
Journal of the History of Philosophy
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The Emergence of European Sociology: The Classical Tradition
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27. Max Weber as a Critic of Marxism
Wolfgang Mommsen
1977
Canadian Journal of Sociology
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28. In Search of the Spirit of Capitalism
Gordon Marshall
1982
In Search of the Spirit of Capitalism
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29. Max Weber: The Universal Historian and the Social Scientist
Wolfgang Mommsen
1974
The Age of Bureaucracy
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30. De-Parsonizing Weber: A Critique of Parsons' Interpretation of Weber's Sociology
Jere Cohen | Lawrence Hazelrigg | Whitney Pope
1975
American Sociological Review
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31. Prolegomena to the Interpretation of Durkheim
Steven Lukes
1971
European Journal of Sociology
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32. Changement Social et Anomie: Essai de Formalisation de la Théorie Durkheimienne
Mohamed Cherkaoui
1981
Archives Européennes de Sociologie
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33. Modes d'Emploi du «Suicide»: Intégration et Régulation dans la Théorie Durkheimienne
Philippe Besnard
1984
Année Sociologique
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34. Durkheim on Religion Revisited: Another Look at the Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Talcott Parsons
1973
Beyond The Classics. Essays in The Study of Religion
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35. Georg Simmel: First Sociologist of Modernity
David Frisby
1985
Theory, Culture and Society
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36. Simmel, Rationalisation and the Sociology of Money
Bryan Turner
1986
Sociological Review
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37. The Problems of the Philosophy of History
Raymond Boudon
1986
Social Science Information
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38. La Représentation du Social
Bernard Valade
1990
La Naissance d'une Autre Sociologie
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Volume III
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The Emergence of European Sociology: The Classical Tradition
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39. Collective Psychology in the “Era Of Crowds”
Robert Nye
1975
The Origins of Crowd Psychology: Gustav LeBon and the Crisis of Mass Democracy in the Third Republic
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40. Introduction to Gabriel Tarde: On Communication and Social Influence
Terry Clark
1969
Gabriel Tarde: On Communication and Social Influence
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41. Ferdinand Tönnies and Georg Simmel
Yoshio Atoji
1984
Sociology at the Turn of the Century
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42. Frédéric Le Play on Family Organization
Frédéric Le Play
1982
Frédéric Le Play: On Family, Work and Social Change
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43. Hostility to Science and Faith in Poetry as a German Ideology
Wolf Lepenies
1988
Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology
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European Sociology in the Twentieth Century: Modernity and its Discontents
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44. The “Année Sociologique” Team
Philippe Besnard
1983
The Sociological Domain: The Durkheimians and the Founding of French Sociology
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45. The Durkheimians in Academe: A Reconsideration
Victor Karady
1983
The Sociological Domain: The Durkheimians and the Founding of French Sociology
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46. An Intellectual Self-Portrait
Marcel Mauss
1983
The Sociological Domain: The Durkheimians and the Founding of French Sociology
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47. Phenomenology and Methodology of Social Science: The Origins
Robert Gorman
1977
The Dual Vision: Alfred Schutz and the Myth of Phenomenological Social Science
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48. Karl Mannheim and the Production of a ‘Relationist’ Sociology of Knowledge
Peter Hamilton
1974
Knowledge and Social Structure
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49. Georg Lukács: From Reification to the Critique of Ideology
David Frisby
1983
The Alienated Mind: The Sociology of Knowledge in Germany 1918–33
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50. The Emergence of Sociology in Austria, 1885–1935
John Torrance
1976
Archives Européennes de Sociologie
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51. Gramsci Today
Chantal Mouffe
1979
Gramsci and Marxist Theory
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52. Das Institut für Sozialforschung
Paul Kluke
1972
Die Stiftungsuniversität Frankfurt am Main
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53. The Formation of the Frankfurt School
Tom Bottomore
1984
The Frankfurt School
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54. Leopold Von Wiese und das Forschungsinstitut für Sozialwissenschaften in Köln 1919 bis 1934
Heine von Alemann
1976
Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
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55. Philanthropy, Social Research, Politics
Wolf Lepenies
1988
Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology
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56. The Sociological Movement, the Sociological Society and the Genesis of Academic Sociology in Britain
R. Halliday
1968
Sociological Review
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Volume IV
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European Sociology in the Twentieth Century: From Post-Industrialism to Post-Modernism
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57. The Political Thought of Neo-Liberalism
Carl Friedrich
1955
American Political Science Review
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58. Chronique de la Sociologie Française Après 1945
Jacques Lautman
1981
Science et Théorie de l'Opinion Publique
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59. Aron's World
Ralf Dahrendorf
1990
The Modern Social Conflict
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60. Introduction to The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology
David Frisby
1976
The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology
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61. Sociology in the Federal Republic of Germany
Johannes Weiss
1989
National Traditions in Sociology
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62. Language, Self, and Lifeworld in Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action
Donald McIntosh
1994
Theory and Society
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63. A Sociological Critique of Marx
Ralf Dahrendorf
1959
Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society
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64. The Term “Structure” and its Polysemic Character
Raymond Boudon
1971
The Uses of Structuralism
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65. Structuralism
Tom Bottomore | Robert Nisbet
1979
A History of Sociological Analysis
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66. The Paradoxical Effects of Macluhanisme: Cazeneuve, Baudrillard and Barthes
Gary Genosko
1994
Economy and Society
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67. Althusser and Structuralism
Alison Assiter
1984
British Journal of Sociology
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68. Foucault
José Merquior
1985
Foucault
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Raymond Boudon
1989
The Analysis of Ideology
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70. Language, Culture and Sociology: Pierre Bourdieu in Context
Richard Jenkins
1994
History of the Human Sciences
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71. Boudon's Educational Theses About the Replication of Social Inequality
Hayward Alker
1976
Social Science Information
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72. Le Sociologue et la Raison
Philippe de Lara
1995
Critique
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73. The Transformations of Anthony Giddens: The Continuing Story of Structuration Theory
David Jary | Julia Jary
1995
Theory, Culture and Society
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74. Coercion, Cognition and Production: Gellner's Challenge to Historical Materialism and Postmodernism
Rosaire Langlois
1996
The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner
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