Social Theory

Social Theory is a collection of influential writings representing the most important trends of sociological thought from the eighteenth century to the present day. It includes seminal works by such theorists as Herbert Spencer, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Jürgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau, Georg Simmel, George Herbert Mead, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Talcott Parsons, Robert Merton, Jane Addams, W.E.B. Du Bois, Anthony Giddens, Antonio Gramsci, C. Wright Mills, Norbert Elias, Pierre Bourdieu, Theodor Adorno, Nancy Chodorow, Ulrich Beck, Erving Goffman, Jean Baudrillard, and dozens more. These primary sources are accompanied by journal articles and interpretive materials.

These writings cover a wide variety of themes, including criminal punishment, recreation & sports, gender roles in society, birth control, childhood and adolescence, morality, drug use, race relations, marriage, government and anarchism, social inequality, and more. 

This collection may be searched alongside other primary source collections in Global & International Studies Collection (Alexander Street).