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The Making of Social Theory
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Unmaking of Traditional Society
Part One: From Reason to Revolution
1: Enlightenment and Revolution: Rousseau and Wollstonecraft
2: The Conservative Reaction and Romanticism
3: Democracy and Social Liberalism
Part Two: From Social Philosophy to Social Science
4: French Positivism and German Idealism
5: Karl Marx
6: Fin de Siècle Social Thought: Feminism, Decadence, and Nietzsche
7: Émile Durkheim
8: Max Weber
Part Three: From Certainty to Doubt
9: Emancipation and Pragmatism: Du Bois, Dewey, and Mead
10: The Individual and Society: Simmel and Freud
11: Early Twentieth-Century Marxism: The Russian Revolution and Gramsci
12: Elites and Social Democracy: From Pareto to Mannheim
13: Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Index

About the Author

Anthony Thomson is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Acadia University. He earned his MA from Dalhousie and his PhD from Cambridge in 1984. Thomson is an experienced writer, having published previously with Canadian Scholars Press. In addition to social theory, his areas of interest cover the Nova Scotian labour movement, Canadian labour history, Marxism, post-revolutionary societies, intellectual history, criminal justice,
and socialist movements.

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