The Classical Tradition in Sociology

Jeffrey Alexander is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles

• VOLUME I: THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY: I - FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE FOUNDING FATHERS (1750-1900)I: THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENTOn the Fronteirs of Sociology and History - L SchneiderObservations on Evolutionary Development and Unanticipated ConsequencesThe American Enlightenment - Peter GayThe Founders and the Classics - C J RichardGreece, Rome and the American EnlightenmentII: DE TOCQUEVILLE AND AMERICAN DISTINCTIVENESSTRANSCENDENTALISTSGod, Woman, and Morality - W MathieThe Democratic Family in the New Political Science of Alexis de TocquevilleThe Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville - R J BoeschePauperism and Democracy - H BroganAlexis de Tocqueville and Nassau SeniorIII: THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGYIntroduction, from The Philadelphia Negro - W E B DuBoisW E B DuBois as a Social Investigator - M BulmerThe Philadelphia Negro 1899Social Self-Control - A GiddingsThe Causes of Race Superiority - RossSociology - B Lecuyer and A R Oberschall The Early History of Social ResearchFifty Years of Sociology in the United States - 1865 - 1915 - Albion SmallThe Statistical Turn in American Social Science - C Camic and Y XieColumbia University, 1890 to 1915American Sociology at the Turn of the Century - Robert E FarisAmerican Sociology - H OdumVOLUME II: THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY: II - THE CLASSICAL TRADITION (1900-1940)Editor′s Introduction - Jeffrey C AlexanderI: THE CHICAGO SCHOOL AND PRAGMATISMThe Work of George Mead - G DeweyThe Chicago School of Sociology - M BulmerWhat Made It a `School′?George Herbert Mead and the Chicago Tradition of Sociology - B M Fisher and A L StraussParts I and IISociology and Public Affairs - J CareyThe Chicago SchoolThe Chicago Tradition - B M Fisher and A L StraussThomas, Park and their SuccessorsPragmatism and Social Interactionisms - Dmitri ShalinThe Self as Social Structure - G H MeadThe Self as Sentiment and Relection - C H CooleyThe Looking Glass Self - C H CooleyOn Thomas and Znaniecki′s `The Polish Peasant′ - M BulmerUrbanism as a Way of Life - Louise WirthThe Ghetto - Louise WirthThe Development of Field Research Methods - M BulmerII: OTHER AMERICAS: SOCIOLOGY OUTSIDE CHICAGOSociology as a Religious Movement - R R DynesWilliam Graham Sumner - D W RossidesLester F Ward - D W RossidesA Scientific Revolution - H KuklickSociological Theory in the United States, 1930 - 1945Origins of American Sociology - L L Bernard and J BernardThe Social Science Movement in the United StatesThe Social Construction of Style - G A FineThorstein Veblen′s The Theory of the Leisure Class as Contested TextScientism, from A History of Sociological Research Methods in America - Jennifer PlattVOLUME III: AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY IN THE 20TH CENTURY: I - FROM PRAGMATISM TO FUNCTIONALISM AND QUANTITATIVE SOCIOLOGY (1930 - 1960)Editor′s Introduction - Jeffrey C AlexanderI: SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM: FROM MEAD TO BLUMERThe Methodological Position of Symbolic Interactionism - H BlumerElaboration, Revision, Polemic and Progress in the Second Chicago School - Paul Colomy and J David BrownThe Sad Demise, Mysterious Disappearance, and Glorious Triumph of Symbolic Interaction - Gary Alan FineHerbert Blumer′s Contribution to Twentieth Century Sociology - ShibutaniThe Classic American Pragmatists as Forerunners to Symbolic Interactionism - J D LewisEverett Hughes - Anselm StraussSociology′s MissionEverett Hughes and the Development of Fieldwork in Sociology - J M ChaupolieSocial Problems as Collective Behavior - H BlumerAccounts - Scott and LymanII: TALCOTT PARSONS: SOCIAL ACTION; FUNCTIONALISM; SYSTEMS THEORYParsons′s Structure - Jeffrey C AlexanderStructure after 50 years - C CamicThe Anatomy of a CharterOut of Utopia - R DahrendorfIII: LAZARSFELD AND MERTON: THEORIES OF THE MIDDLE RANGEMerton as a Discipline Builder - Charles CrothersOut of Utopia - Jennifer PlattIV: OTHER MICRO-APPROACHESSmall Group Theory and Research - Robert F BalesBringing Men Back In - G HomansThe Oversocialized Conception of Man in Modern Sociology - D WrongCohesion and Disintegration in the Wehrmact in World War II - E Shils and M JanowitzDeviant Behaviour and Social Structure - R DubinThe Curious Importance of Small Groups in American Sociology - A SilverContributions to the Theory of Reference Group Behavior - Merton and KittV ORGANIZATIONAL AND POLITICAL SOCIOLOGYMetaphysical Pathos and the Theory of Bureaucracy - Alvin GouldnerVOLUME IV: AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY IN THE 20TH CENTURY: II (1960 - )Editor′s Introduction - Jeffrey C AlexanderI: MAJOR MACRO-SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHESMODERNIZATION AND SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION: FROM PARSONS TO SMELSER AND NEO-FUNCTIONALSIMSocial Differentiation and Organic Solidarity - H P MullerThe Division of Labor Revisited, Sociological ForumEconomy and Society: A Reminder Stressing the Importance of the Contribution by T Parsons and N Smelser - M A BasleSocial Theory and Talcott Parsons in the 1980s - D Sciulli and D GersteinAgainst Nostalgia - B Turner and R HoltonECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY AND NEO-INSTITUTIONALISMBell and Post-Industrial Theory - M WatersOn the Use and Abuse of Thorstein Veblen in Modern American Sociology II - R Tilman and J L SimichDaniel Bell and the `Utopianizing′ of Veblen′s Contribution and its Integration by Robert Merton and C W MillsInstitutionalization Organizations - Meyer and RowanFormal Structure as Myth and CeremonyFROM CRITICAL THEORY TO COMMUNATARIANISMCritical Theory and the Crisis of Social Theory - D KellnerHISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY: FROM MOORE TO SKOCPOLVision and Method in Historical Sociology - T SkocpolII: MAJOR MICRO-SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHESTreating Method and Form as Phenomena - L LangsdorfAn Appreciation of Garfinkel′s Phenomenology of Social ActionDrama as Life - P ManningThe Significance of Goffman′s Changing Use of the Theatrical MetaphorRational Choice Theory in Sociology - R J HoltonIII: NEW TRENDSFeminism, Essentialism, and Historical Context - R ChampagneI Can′t Even Think Straight - A Stein and K PlummerQueer Theory and the Missing Sexual Revolution in SociologySocial Postmodernism - L J Nicholson and S SeidmanBeyond Identity PoliticsThe Promise of a Cultural Sociology - J C AlexanderTechnological Discourse and the Sacred and Profane Information Machine

`In presenting this monumental work , Professors Alexander, Boudon and Cherkaoui have done magnificent service not only for sociology but for the intellectual world in general. The Classical Tradition in Sociology stands unmatched as the most intelligent, comprehensive, balanced, and definitive treatment of the history of sociology right up to the present. I am already urging people to read it as an essential ingredient in their ongoing education, and I am confident that I will continue to deliver this message for many years to come′ - Neil J Smelser, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford