Four Sociological Traditions

PROLOGUE: THE RISE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social Thought in the Agrarian Empires; Medieval Universities Create the Modern Intellectual; Economics: The First Social Science; The Rise of Public Schools and the University Revolution; The Development of the Disciplines; And Finally Sociology; I: THE CONFLICT TRADITION; The Pivotal Position of Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels, the Sociologist in the Shadows; Max Weber and the Multidimensional Theory of Stratification; The Twentieth Century Intermingles Marxian and Weberian Ideas; Appendix: Simmel Coser, and Functionalist Conflict Theory; II: THE RATIONAL/UTILITARIAN TRADITION; The Original Rise and Fall of Utilitarian Philosophy; Bringing the Individual Back In; Sociology Discovers Sexual and Marriage Markets; The Paradoxes and Limits of Rationality; Economics Invades Sociology, and Vice Versa; The Rational Theory of the State; The New Utilitarian Policy Science; III: THE DURKHEIMIAN TRADITION; Sociology and the Science of Social Order; Two Wings: The Macro Tradition; The Second Wing: The Lineage of Social Anthropology; Ritual Exchange Networks: The Micro/Macro Linkage; The Future of the Durkheimian Tradition; IV: THE MICROINTERACTIONIST TRADITION; A Native American Sociology; The Pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce; Society is in the Mind: Cooley; George Herbert Mead's Sociology of Thinking; Blumer Creates Symbolic Interactionism; The Sociology of Consciousness: Husserl, Schutz, and Garfinkel; Erving Goffman's Counterattack; A Summing Up