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Classical social theory and modern society : Marx, Durkheim, Weber / Edward Royce.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Royce, Edward Cary, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology--History.
- Sociology.
- History.
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
- Marx, Karl.
- Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.
- Durkheim, Émile.
- Weber, Max, 1864-1920.
- Weber, Max.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 341 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 1
- Classical Sociology and the Great Transformation 2
- The Enlightenment 3
- The French Revolution 5
- The Industrial Revolution 7
- Classical Sociology and Modern Society 10
- Marx, Durkheim, and Weber: Theorists of Modernity 10
- Marx, Durkheim, and Weber: Defenders of Modernity 11
- Marx, Durkheim, and Weber: Critics of Modernity 13
- Marx, Durkheim, and Weber: Public Intellectuals 13
- The Plan of the Book 14
- Part I Overview
- 2 Karl Marx (1818-1883) 21
- Historical Materialism 23
- Marx's Materialist Conception of Society 24
- Marx's Materialist Conception of History 27
- Marx's Practical Materialism 29
- The Capitalist Mode of Production 31
- Capitalist Commodity Production 31
- The Labor Theory of Value 33
- Primitive Accumulation 34
- Labor Power: A Most Peculiar Commodity 36
- The Industrial Reserve Army 38
- The Hidden Abode of Production 39
- The Consumption of Labor Power 39
- The Secret of Profit Making 41
- The Exploitation of Labor 43
- Capitalist Contradictions and Crisis Tendencies 44
- Capitalist Development and Socialist Revolution 48
- Capitalism as a Modernizing Force 49
- The Historical Mission of Capitalism 50
- The Formation of a Revolutionary Working Class 51
- 3 Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) 55
- The Sociological Enterprise 57
- The Domain of Sociology 57
- The Social Nature of Social Facts 59
- The Factual Nature of Social Facts 61
- Explaining Social Facts 65
- The Normal and the Pathological 67
- Modern Society: Specialization and Solidarity 69
- Segmentary Society and Organized Society 69
- The Origins of the Division of Labor 71
- The Collective Consciousness 72
- Repressive Law and Restitutive Law 73
- Mechanical Solidarity and Organic Solidarity 75
- Sociology, Suicide, and Modernity 78
- The Social Rate of Suicide 78
- The Social Types of Suicide 79
- The Individual and Society 85
- Civilization and Humanity 85
- God and Society 86
- Homo Duplex 87
- Moral Education and the Formation of the Social Being 88
- 4 Max Weber (1864-1920) 91
- The Rationalization Theme 92
- The Rationalization of Social Action 94
- Modern Rational Capitalism 96
- Capitalism: Modern and Pre-Modern 97
- Modern Rational Capitalism: Preconditions and Characteristics 98
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 101
- The Spirit of Capitalism 101
- Ascetic Protestantism 103
- From Ascetic Protestantism to Modem Capitalism 106
- The Rise of the Capitalist System 107
- The Rationalization of Legitimate Authority 108
- Traditional Authority 109
- Charismatic Authority 110
- Rational-Legal Authority 111
- Legitimate Authority, Modernity, and Rationalization 112
- Bureaucratic Rationalization 112
- Science, Disenchantment, and the Crisis of Meaning 116
- The Circumstances of Science in the Modern World 116
- The Disenchantment of the World 118
- Empirical Judgments and Value Judgments 119
- Cultural Differentiation and Value Pluralism 121
- The Value of Science 122
- Modernity and Rationalization 124
- Part II Themes
- 5 The Modern Condition 129
- Karl Marx: The Fate of the Working Class 130
- The Developmental Tendencies of Capitalism 131
- The Process of Valorization 132
- From Manufacture to Modern Industry 132
- The Immiseration of the Working Class 134
- The Alienation of Labor 136
- The Irrationality of Capitalism 138
- Emile Durkheim: The Malaise of Modern Society 139
- A State of Transition 139
- The Crisis of Modern Society 140
- Corporate Organizations 146
- Max Weber: The Iron Cage 148
- The Iron Cage 149
- Capitalism: The Most Fateful Force in Our Modern Life 150
- Bureaucracy: A Structure of Domination 152
- Formal and Substantive Rationality 155
- Marx, Durkheim, and Weber on the Modem Condition 158
- The Diagnosis of Modernity 158
- Progress and Social Change 162
- The End of History? 163
- 6 The Fate of the Individual 167
- Karl Marx: Free Individuality 168
- Capitalism, Communism, and Individuality 169
- Capitalism, Communism, and Freedom 171
- Emile Durkheim: Moral Individualism 177
- The Road to Individualism 178
- Individualism as Pathology 179
- Moral Individualism 180
- Max Weber: The Ethic of Personality 185
- Weber's Concept of Freedom 186
- The Routinization of Everyday Life 187
- The Concept of Personality 189
- Personality, Individual Freedom, and the Iron Cage 192
- The Individual, Individualism, and Modernity 194
- Common Ground 194
- Modem Society and individual Freedom 196
- Individualism, Freedom, and Self-Realization 200
- 7 The State and Democracy 203
- Karl Marx: True Democracy 204
- Marx's Early Political Writings 204
- Marx's Theory of the Capitalist State 207
- True Democracy 209
- The Paris Commune 211
- Democracy Equals Communism 213
- Emile Durkheim: The Future Belongs to Democracy 214
- The Role of the State in Modem Society 214
- The State and Democracy 218
- The Future Belongs to Democracy 222
- Max Weber: Leadership Democracy 223
- The State and Politics 224
- Democracy 226
- Marx, Durkheim, and Weber on the State and Democracy 234
- The State in Marx, Durkheim, and Weber 234
- The Idea of Democracy in Marx, Durkheim, and Weber 235
- 8 Socialism and Capitalism 241
- Karl Marx: The Self-Emancipation of the Working Class 242
- Marx's Road to Socialism 243
- Marx's Conception of Socialism and the Socialist Movement 246
- Marx's Vision of a Socialist Society 250
- Emile Durkheim: A Cry of Grief 251
- Socialism and Sociology 252
- Durkheim's Definition of Socialism 253
- Durkheim contra Marx 254
- Socialism and Moral Regulation 259
- Max Weber: The Dictatorship of the Official 260
- Capitalist Development and Socialist Revolution 261
- Against Socialism 264
- For Capitalism 265
- Capitalism, Socialism, and Modernity 267
- Marx, Durkheim, and Weber on Socialism 270
- The Worker Question and the Pathologies of Capitalism 270
- Capitalism, Socialism, and Modernity 273
- 9 Conclusion 279.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442243224
- 1442243228
- 9781442243231
- 1442243236
- OCLC:
- 890625288
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