Notes on the Editors ix
Acknowledgments x
Introduction 1
Part I Precursors to Sociological Theory 19
Introduction to Part I 21
1 Of the Natural Condition and the Commonwealth (from Leviathan)
30
Thomas Hobbes
2 Of the Social Contract (from The Social Contract) 38
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3 What is Enlightenment? (from Immanuel Kant, The Philosophy of
Kant) 50
Immanuel Kant
4 The Wealth of Nations (from The Wealth of Nations) 55
Adam Smith
5 The Theory of Moral Sentiments (from The Theory of Moral
Sentiments) 67
Adam Smith
Part II The Sociological Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville 83
Introduction to Part II 85
6 The Old Régime and the French Revolution (from The Old Régime
and the French Revolution) 94
Alexis de Tocqueville
7 Influence of Democracy on the Feelings of the Americans (from
Democracy in America) 103
Alexis de Tocqueville
8 Tyranny of the Majority (from Democracy in America) 122
Alexis de Tocqueville
Part III The Sociological Theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 133
Introduction to Part III 135
9 The German Ideology (from The German Ideology, Part One)
142
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
10 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (from Collected
Works, Volume 3) 146
Karl Marx
11 Manifesto of the Communist Party (from Collected Works,
Volume 6) 156
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
12 The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (from Collected
Works, Volume 11) 172
Karl Marx
13 Wage-Labour and Capital (from Karl Marx: Selected Writings)
182
Karl Marx
14 Classes (from Collected Works, Volume 37) 190
Karl Marx
Part IV The Sociological Theory of Emile Durkheim 193
Introduction to Part IV 195
15 The Rules of Sociological Method (from The Rules of
Sociological Method) 201
Emile Durkheim
16 The Division of Labor in Society (from The Division of Labor
in Society) 220
Emile Durkheim
17 The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (from Elementary
Forms of the Religious Life) 243
Emile Durkheim
18 Suicide (from Suicide: A Study in Sociology) 255
Emile Durkheim
Part V The Sociological Theory of Max Weber 265
Introduction to Part V 267
19 “Objectivity” in Social Science (from The Methodology of the
Social Sciences) 273
Max Weber
20 Basic Sociological Terms (from The Theory of Social and
Economic Organization) 280
Max Weber
21 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (from
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism With Other Writings
on the Rise of the West) 291
Max Weber
22 The Distribution of Power within the Political Community:
Class, Status, Party (from From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology)
310
Max Weber
23 The Types of Legitimate Domination (from The Theory of Social
and Economic Organization) 320
Max Weber
24 Bureaucracy (from Max Weber: Essays in Sociology) 328
Max Weber
Part VI Self and Society in Sociological Theory 339
Introduction to Part VI 341
25 The Self (from Mind, Self and Society: From the Standpoint of
a Social Behaviorist) 347
George Herbert Mead
26 The Stranger (from Georg Simmel: On Individuality and Social
Forms) 361
Georg Simmel
27 Group Expansion and the Development of Individuality (from
Georg Simmel: On Individuality and Social Forms) 366
Georg Simmel
28 The Dyad and the Triad (from The Sociology of Georg Simmel)
382
Georg Simmel
29 Civilization and its Discontents (from Civilization and its
Discontents) 396
Sigmund Freud
30 The Souls of Black Folk (from The Souls of Black Folk)
404
W. E. B. Du Bois
31 The Regulation of the Wishes (from The Unadjusted Girl)
410
William I. Thomas
Part VII Critical Theory and the Sociology of Knowledge 419
Introduction to Part VII 421
32 Traditional and Critical Theory (from Critical Theory:
Selected Essays) 425
Max Horkheimer
33 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (from
Illuminations) 441
Walter Benjamin
34 The Culture Industry (from The Dialectic of Enlightenment)
465
Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno
35 One-Dimensional Man (from One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the
Ideology of Advanced IndustrialSociety) 478
Herbert Marcuse
Part VIII Structural-Functional Analysis 487
Introduction to Part VIII 489
36 The Position of Sociological Theory (from The Position of
Sociological Theory) 495
Talcott Parsons
37 An Outline of the Social System (from Theories of Society)
502
Talcott Parsons
38 Manifest and Latent Functions (from Social Theory and Social
Structure) 523
Robert K. Merton
39 On Sociological Theories of the Middle Range (from Social
Theory and Social Structure) 531
Robert K. Merton
Index 543
Craig Calhoun is University Professor and Professor ofSociology and History at New York University, and President of theSocial Science Research Council. Joseph Gerteis is Associate Professor of Sociology at theUniversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities. James Moody is Associate Professor of Sociology at DukeUniversity, North Carolina. Steven Pfaff is Associate Professor of Sociology at theUniversity of Washington. Indermohan Virk is Visiting Lecturer in Sociology atIndiana University, Bloomington.
"This updated collection offers a careful and comprehensive overview and assessment of classical sociological theory from the precursors to the mid-twentieth century. It is a decisive guide to the history and development of social thought." ?Bryan S. Turner, Presidential Professor of Sociology CUNY "With this new edition of Classical Sociological Theory Calhoun and his collaborators have produced the best theory reader there is." ?Philip Gorski, Yale University
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