The Making of Society (Revised)
Table of Contents

Robert Bierstedt, Ed.

Preface by Robert Bierstedt

Introduction The Story of Sociology by Robert Bierstedt

I. Classical and Medieval Statements (selections)
Plato Protagoras
Crito
The Republic
Aristotle Politics
Cicero The Laws
St. Augustine            The City of God
St. Thomas Aquinas On the Governance of Rulers
Dante

De Monarchia

Marsilius of Padua Defensor Pacis
 
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

David Hume Inquiries about the Principles of Morals
Marquis de Condorcet Outline of an Historical Picture of the Human Mind

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

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

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
Thanks to the contributor:
John Peterson

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