Robert Bierstedt, Ed.
Preface by Robert Bierstedt
Introduction The Story of Sociology by Robert Bierstedt
I. Classical and Medieval Statements (selections)
| Plato |
Protagoras |
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Crito |
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The Republic |
| Aristotle |
Politics |
| Cicero |
The Laws |
| St. Augustine |
The City of God |
| St. Thomas Aquinas |
On the Governance of Rulers |
| Dante |
De Monarchia
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| Marsilius of Padua |
Defensor Pacis |
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II. The Early Modern Period
| Niccolo Machiavelli |
The Prince: (“The Art of War”) |
| Thomas Hobbes |
Leviathan |
| John Locke |
Essay on Civil Government |
| Giovanni Battista Vico |
Scienza Nuova |
| Baron de Montesquieu |
The Spirit of the Laws |
| Jean Jaques Rousseau |
The Social Contract |
| Adam Smith |
The Wealth of Nations
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| David Hume |
Inquiries about the Principles of Morals |
| Marquis de Condorcet |
Outline of an Historical Picture of the Human Mind |
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III. The Nineteenth Century
| Thomas Robert Malthus |
An Essay on the Principle of Population |
| Auguste Comte |
System of Positive Philosophy |
| John Stuart Mill |
Logic |
| K. Marx and F. Engels |
The Communist Manifesto |
| Henry Thomas Buckle |
History of Civilization |
| Charles Darwin |
The Origin of Species |
| Herbert Spencer |
The Principles of Sociology |
IV. The Middle Period (selections)
| Lester F. Ward |
Dynamic Sociology |
| Ferdinand Tonnies |
Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft |
| Emile Durkheim |
The Rules of Sociological Method |
| Gabriel Tarde |
Social Laws |
| Thorstein Veblen |
The Theory of the Leisure Class |
| Edward A. Ross |
Social Control
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| William Graham Sumner |
Folkways |
| Charles Horton Cooley |
Social Organization: (“Primary Groups”) |
| Franklin H. Giddings |
The Scientific Study of Human Society |
| Georg Simmel |
Soziologie |
| Max Weber |
The Protestant Ethic |
| Vilfredo Pareto |
The Mind and Society |
V. Recent Sociology
| W.I. Thomas & F. Znaniecki |
The Polish Peasant |
| William Fielding Ogburn |
Social Change |
| Robert E. Park |
Human Nature and Collective Behavior |
| Florian Znaniecki |
The Method of Sociology
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| Pitirim A. Sorokin |
Social and Cultural Dynamics |
| Robert M. MacIver |
The Web of Government |
| Karl Mannheim |
Ideology and Utopia |
| George A. Lundberg |
Foundations of Sociology |
| Howard Becker |
Modern Sociological Theory |
| Talcott Parsons |
The Social System |