Sociological Insights of Great Thinkers Sociology Through Literature, Philosophy, and Science

includes index and biblioraphy

CHAPTER 1. Introduction 1 Christofer Edling and Jens Rydgren PART I. SOCIOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS CHAPTER 2. William Shakespeare: On Social Stratification Hiroshi Ono CHAPTER 3. Plato: Seven Sociological Ideas for the Happy Life Guillermina Josso CHAPTER 4. Franz Kafka: Bureaucracy, Law, and Abuses of the "Iron Cage" Joachim J. Savehberg CHAPTER 5. Marcel Proust: On Social Status and Capital Forms Jens Rydgren CHAPTER 6. George Orwell: From Democratic Revolution to Authoritarian Rule Karl-Dieter Opp CHAPTER 7. Robert Musil: State, Nation, and Nationality Helmut Kuzmics CHAPTER 8. August Strindberg: Forms of Interaction Christofer Edling CHAPTER 9. Henrik Ibsen: The Power of Charisma Fredrik Engelstad CHAPTER 10. Chinua Achebe: Colonial Anomie Wendy Griswold PART II. SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS CHAPTER 11. Ernst Cassirer: Science, Symbols, and Logics John W. Mohr CHAPTER 12. Cicero: Persons and Positions Lars Lldehn CHAPTER 13. Charles Darwin: Selfishness and Altruism Wendelin Reich CHAPTER 14. Francois Rabelais: Materiality and Culture Emily Erikson CHAPTER 15. Emile Zola: Seductions and Emancipations of Consumption Helena Flam CHAPTER 16. Fyodor Dostoevsky: On Extreme Political Violence Eva M. Meyersson Miigrom and Joshua Thurston-Milgrom CHAPTER 17. Goethe: The Ambivalence of Modernity and the Faustian Ethos of Personality Ham-Peter Miiller PART III. META SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER 18. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck: At the Intersection of Sociocultural Worlds Karen A. Cerulo and Janet M. Ruane CHAPTER 19. Dante Alighieri: The Afterworlds Are Hell for Sociologists Peter Bearman CHAPTER 20. Galileo Galilei: Which Road to Scientific Innovation? Roberta Franzosi CHAPTER 21. Jorge Luis Borges: Reduction of Social Complexity Filippo Barbera CHAPTER 22. Isaac Asimov: Impacting and Predicting Sociocultural Change Kathleen M. Carley CHAPTER 23. Alfred North Whitehead: From Universal Algebra to Universal Sociology Thomas J. Fararo CHAPTER 24. Kurt Vonnegut: From Semicolons to Apocalypses Barry Markovsky CHAPTER 25. Jonathan Swift: Political Satire and the Public Sphere Gary Alan Fine PART IV. SOCIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS CHAPTER 26. Baruch Spinoza: Monism and Complementarity Ronald L. Breiger CHAPTER 27. Isaiah Berlin: On the Sociology of Freedom Margareta Bertilsson CHAPTER 28. Bertrand Russell: Insights on Power David Wilier CHAPTER 29. Immanuel Kant: An Analytic Grammar for the Relation between Cognition and Action John Levi Martin CHAPTER 30. John Dewey: The Sociology of Action Christopher Mutter and Christopher Winship CHAPTER 31. Charles Sanders Peirce: On the Sociology of Thinking Richard Sutedberg CHAPTER 32. Thomas Hobbes: On Generating Social Order Mohammed Cherkaoui CHAPTER 33. Jean Piaget: Sociology Beyond Holism and Individualism Omar Lizardo