Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 | The Enlightenment: Philosophical Foundations
Chapter 2 | Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Vindication of the Rights of Women
Chapter 3 | The Romantic-Conservative Reaction
Hegel's Historical Synthesis
Conservative Philosophy and Sociology: A Summary
Chapter 4 | Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
The Advent of Positive Philosophy
The Positive Method in Its Application to Social Phenomena
Chapter 5 | The Philosophical Orientations of Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Chapter 6 | Marx's Relation to Hegel and Feuerbach
Chapter 7 | Marx's Historical Sociology
Marx's Famous "Preface"
Tribal Ownership
Productive Forces: Did Marx in Fact Assign Them Casual Priority?
The Feudal Mode of Production
The Asiatic Mode of Production: Its Significance for Marx's
Theoretical Implications
The Capitalist Mode of Production
Was Marx a Social Evolutionist?
Chapter 8 | Max Weber (1864-1920)
Weber's Dialogue with Marxism
Feudalism: Weber's View and its Affinities with that of Marx
The Asiatic Mode of Production: Weber's Fruitful Elaboration of Marx's Concept
Asian Religions
Western Capitalism: Weber's Complementary Analysis
Social Class and Other Aspects of Social Organization:Weber's Revision of Marx's Class Theory
Bureaucracy
The Charismatic Political Leader: Weber's Error
The Historical-Sociological Method
Chapter 9 | Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)
Pareto's Repudiation of The Enlightenment's Legacy
Pareto and Science
Les Systemes Socialistes
Pareto's Sociology
Society Elites, and Force
Pareto and Fascism
Chapter 10 | Gaetano Mosca (1858-1941)
The Ruling Class
Aristotle and Montesquieu
Juridical Defense
Universal Suffrage
Parliamentarism
Standing Armies
Chapter 11 | Robert Michels (1876-1936)
Chapter 12 | Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
Durkheim and Saint-Simon
The Problem of Order
Order and Justice
Durkheim's Sociology of Deviant Behavior
Crime and Punishment
Durkheim's Sociology of Religion
Methodological Rules and Values
The Study of Suicide
Chapter 13 | Karl Mannheim (1893-1947)
Ideology and Utopia
The Intelligentsia
Chapter 14 | George Herbert Mead (1863-1931)
Mind, Self, and Society
Meaning
The Self
The "I" and the ""Me""
The "Biologic I"
The Philosophy of the Act
More on Mead's Pragmatic Epistemology
Epilogue
Index
