Social Theory Classical and Contemporary - a Critical Perspective

includes index and biblioraphy

Hegel on dialectics, the state, and society ......7 Marx and engels on Social class and class struggle ...........9 Durkheim on society and social order .........15 Weber on Bureaucracy, power, and social status ..........25 Pareto, mosca, and michels on elites and masses.........42 Simmel on social relations and group affiliations.........49 Cooley and mead on human nature and society ............57 Freud on the development of Society and civilization ............66 Addams and early women social theorists............74 Veblen on the Leisure class and conspicuous consumption ..........83 Karl mannheim and the sociology of Knowledge ...........89 Gramsci and lenin on Ideology, the state, and revolution .....98 Kollontai on class, gender, and patriarchy..............106 Du bois and frazier on race, class, and social emancipation ..........112 Parsons, merton, and functionalist theory ..........121 Mills on the power elite ........129 Domhoff on the power structure and the governing class .........135 althusser, poulantzas, and miliband on politics and the state ..........141 Trimberger, block, and skocpol and neo-weberian theorizing .......148 Homans on social exchange .......155 The frankfurt school of Critical Theory .......161 Goffman and garfinkel on Dramaturgy, ethnomethodology and everyday life ........180