The Development of Sociological Theory

A. Javier Treviño is the author and editor of several books including The Social Thought of C. Wright Mills (SAGE, 2012), Investigating Social Problems (SAGE, 2014) and C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution: An Exercise in the Art of Sociological Imagination (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). He has served as President of the Justice Studies Association (2000–2002) and as President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (2010–2011). He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, UK (2006), a Fulbright Scholar to the Republic of Moldova (2009), and since 2014 has been a Visiting Professor in Social and Political Theory at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

• PART I. THE NATURE, STRUCTURE, AND TYPES OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORYOn Intellectual Craftsmanship - C. Wright MillsThe Importance of General Theory - Talcott ParsonsMiddle-Range Theories - Robert K. MertonTheory as Explanation - George C. HomansThe Oversocialized View of Human Nature - Dennis H. WrongThe Theoretical Infrastructure - Alvin W. GouldnerPART II. THE ENLIGHTENMENT ROOTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORYThe Problem of Order - Thomas HobbesThe Social Contract - Jean-Jacques RousseauLaws, Mores, and Manners - Charles de MontesquieuPART III. PROTOSOCIOLOGYAn Unjust Social Order - Henri de Saint-SimonThe Hierarchical Structure of Society - Henri de Saint-SimonOrder and Progress - Auguste ComteLaw of the Three Stages - Auguste ComteSocial Progress - Herbert SpencerThe Evolution of Society - Herbert SpencerThe General Happiness - Harriet MartineauFolkways and Mores - William Graham SumnerIn-Groups, Out-Groups, and Ethnocentrism - William Graham SumnerPART IV. THE CLASSICAL TRADITIONCommodity Fetishism - Karl MarxAlienated Labor - Karl MarxHistorical Materialism - Karl MarxMechanical and Organic Solidarity - Émile DurkheimTypes of Suicide - Émile DurkheimSocial Facts - Émile DurkheimThe Rationalism of Western Civilization - Max WeberThe Spirit of Capitalism - Max WeberTypes of Authority - Max WeberThe Stranger - Georg SimmelDyad and Triad - Georg SimmelThe Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg SimmelPART V. THE INTERSTITIAL STATEMENTSThe Ruling Class - Gaetano MoscaThe Circulation of the Elites - Vilfredo ParetoThe Iron Law of Oligarchy - Robert MichelsThe Crowd Mind - Gustave Le BonThe Laws of Imitation - Gabriel TardeThe Herd Instinct - Sigmund FreudThe Conscience of Society - Sigmund FreudConspicuous Consumption - Thorstein VeblenCultural Lag - William F. OgburnIdeational, Sensate, and Idealistic Cultures - Pitirim A. SorokinImminent Sociocultural Change - Pitirim A. SorokinThe Pattern Variables - Talcott ParsonsThe Social System - Talcott ParsonsThe AGIL Schema - Talcott ParsonsManifest and Latent Functions - Robert K. MertonSocial Structure and Anomie - Robert K. MertonThe Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - Robert K. MertonStructural Integration and Change - Hans H. GerthCharacter and Conformity - David RiesmanPART VII. THE CRITICAL EDGESocial Structures, Social Conflicts, and Safety-Valve Institutions - Lewis A. CoserClass Conflict and Structural Change - Ralf DahrendorfThe Sociology of Knowledge - Karl MannheimHegemony - Antonio GramsciThe Reification of Consciousness - Georg LukácsCritical Theory - Max HorkheimerThe Culture Industry - Theodor W. AdornoThe Designer as Cultural Worker - C. Wright MillsPART VIII. THE SELF, INTERACTIONS, AND EXCHANGESThe Definition of the Situation - W. I. ThomasSelf and Society - George Herbert MeadThe Looking-Glass Self - Charles Horton CooleyPrimary Groups - Charles Horton CooleyPerformances in Everyday Life - Erving GoffmanManaging Stigma - Erving GoffmanThe Meaningfully Produced Social World - Alfred SchützSociety as Objective Reality - Peter L. Berger and Thomas LuckmannEthnomethodology - Harold GarfinkelObligatory Exchange - Marcel MaussSocial Behavior as Exchange - George C. HomansReciprocity, Power Imbalance, and Dialectical Change - Peter M. BlauIndividual Interests and Systems of Exchange - James S. ColemanPART IX. COMMUNITY AND CIVIL SOCIETYGemeinschaft and Gesellschaft - Ferdinand TönniesThe Quest for Community - Robert A. NisbetCivil Religion in America - Robert N. BellahA Normative Theory of Moral Community - Philip SelznickCommunitarianism - Amitai EtzioniThe Civilizing Process - Norbert EliasPART X. RACE AND GENDERThe Veil and Double Consciousness - W. E. B. Du BoisThe Talented Tenth - W. E. B. Du BoisThe Economic Status of Women - Charlotte Perkins GilmanFeminist Standpoint Theory - Dorothy E. SmithBlack Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill CollinsPerformative Theory of Gender Acts - Judith ButlerPART XI. SYSTEMS AND NETWORKSAutopoietic Systems - Niklas LuhmannLifeworld and Social System - Jürgen HabermasWorld-Systems Analysis - Immanuel WallersteinThe Network Society - Manuel CastellsActor-Network-Theory - Bruno LatourPART XII. LATE MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITYSociological Intervention - Alain TouraineStructuration Theory - Anthony GiddensOntological Security, Existential Anxiety, and Self-Identity - Anthony GiddensHabitus - Pierre BourdieuThe Risk Society - Ulrich BeckLiquid Modernity - Zygmunt BaumanGlobal Modernities - Roland RobertsonThe Postmodern Condition - Jean-François LyotardHyperreality - Jean Baudrillard

"This comprehensive selection makes a powerful case for the importance of the sociological imagination. Treviño shows how theorists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries explored the ideas of community, power, culture, race, and gender…[and] how systems, networks, and information flows are seen as driving a transition from modernity to an emerging late modern or postmodern society." —John Scott, University of Essex (UK) and University of Copenhagen