The discovery of society /
Randall Collins.
- 7th Edition
- xv, 293 pages, various pages : figures ; 23 cm.
Includes Index.
The prophets of Paris : saint-simon and comte -- Sociology in the underground : Karl Marx -- The last gentleman : Alexis de tocqueville -- Nietzsche's madness -- Do-gooders, evolutionists, and racists -- Dreyfus's empire : Emile Durkheim -- Max Weber : the disenchantment of the world -- Sigmund Freud : conquistador of the irrational -- The discovery of the invisible world : SImmel, Cooley, and Mead -- The discovery of the ordinary world : Thomas, Park, and the Chicago school -- The emergence of African-American sociology : Du Bois, Frazier, Drake, and Cayton -- The construction of the social system : Pareto and Parsons -- Hitler's shadow : Michel's, Mannheim, and Mills -- Erving Goffman and the theater of social encounters -- Cultural capital, revolutions, and the world-system : the theories of Pierre Bourdieu, Theda Skocpol, and Immanuel Wallerstein -- From the code of the street to the social structure of right and wrong : the sociology of Elijah Anderson and Donald Black.