This Reader brings together a generous selection of readings from the original texts of the three major classical sociological theorists: Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim. The readings are deliberately of a substantial length to allow students to gain a full understanding of the texts.
Section 1 Karl Marx: alienated labour; the theses on Feuerbach; The German Ideology and historical materialism; The Communist Manifesto ; wage labour and capital; the preface to A Critique of Political Economy ; the fetishism of commodities; the so-called primitive accumulation; selected correspondence. Section 2 Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ; class, status and party; bureaucracy; science as a vocation; definitions of sociology and social action; legitimacy and authority. Section 3 Emile Durkheim: The Division of Labour in Society ; sanctions and mechanical and organic solidarity; the division of labour - causes of abnormal forms; The Rules of Sociological Method ; Suicide: a Study in Sociology ; religion and society.
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