Alex Law 
Key Concepts in Classical Social Theory [EPUB ebook] 

‘I think this will prove to be a very useful text for undergraduate students. Alex Law has produced a comprehensive list of key classical social theory concepts and provides an accessible account of the meaning of central terms, their place in the work of the classical analysts considered and the contemporary significance of their ideas. In addition he has offered useful additional reading guidance from which students will derive considerable benefit.’


– Barry Smart, University of Portsmouth



This book′s individual entries introduce, explain and contextualise the key topics within classical social theory. Definitions, summaries and key words are developed throughout with careful cross-referencing allowing students to move effortlessly between core ideas and themes. Each entry provides:

• clear definitions


• lucid accounts of key issues


• up-to-date suggestions for further reading


• informative cross-referencing.

Relevant, focused and accessible this book will provide students across the social sciences with an indispensible guide to the central concepts of classical social theory.

Tabla de materias

Introduction: Classical Social Theory

Alienation

Anomie

Base and Superstructure

Bureaucracy

Capital

Civil Society

Class

Class, Status and Party

Collective Effervescence

Collective Representations

Commodity Fetishism

Conscience Collective

Division of Labour (Smith and Ferguson)

Division of Labour (Marx)

Division of Labour in Society (Durkheim)

Fashion

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

Historical Materialism

Ideal-Types

Ideology

Legitimate Domination

Mechanical and Organic Solidarity

Metropolis

Mode of Production

Modernity

Money

Normal and Pathological

Positivism

Primitive Accumulation

Protestant Ethic and the ′Spirit of Capitalism′

Rationality and Rationalization

Sacred and Profane

Social Action

Social Facts

Social Forms and Sociation

Social Morphology

Social Space

Suicide

Totemism

Value Freedom

Verstehen

Sobre el autor

Alex Law is Professor of Sociology at Abertay University, Dundee.