Table of Contents

Part 1 Part I: From Ancient Greece and the Origins of Social Theory to the Emergence of Capitalism and Early Liberal Social Theory Chapter 2 Social Power, Social Theory, and the Nature of Knowledge Chapter 3 Ancient Greece and the Idea of a Social Theory Chapter 4 The Decline and Revival of Social Theory: From Ancient Rome to the Reformation and Renaissance Chapter 5 Hobbes, Locke, the Levellers, and James Harrington: The Emergence of Capitalism and Early Capitalist Social Theory Chapter 6 The French Enlightenment: The Liberal Struggle to Understand Novelty and Diversity Chapter 7 Vico and Montesquieu: History and Culture as the Keys to Novelty and Diversity Chapter 8 Condorcet, Saint-Simon and Comte: Technocratic Liberalism as the Key to Novelty and Diversity Part 9 Part II: Maturing Capitalism and the Emergence of Late Liberalism, Socialism, and Other Forms of Nineteenth-Century Social Theory Chapter 10 Industrial Capitalism and the Main Forms of Contemporary Social Theory Chapter 11 Hume, Bentham, Smith, Mill, Green, and Spencer: Updating Liberalism in Stabilizing Britain Chapter 12 From Madison to Sumner and Ward: Updating American Liberalism Chapter 13 Karl Marx: Creative Social Theory in Unstable, Industrializing Europe Chapter 14 Durkheim: Creative Social Theory in Unstable, Industrializing France Chapter 15 Georg Simmel: The Discovery of the Ordinary (Micro) World Chapter 16 Max Weber: Creative Social Theory in Unstable, Industrializing Germany Chapter 17 Theorists of the Nonrational: Sorel, Nietzsche, Freud, and Pareto Part 18 Part III: Corporate Capitalism and the Spectrum of Current Social Theory Chapter 19 The Emergence of Corporate World-Market Capitalism, Pragmatism, and Professionalism in the United States Chapter 20 Cooley, Thomas, and Veblen: American Social Theory During the Early Stage of Corporate Capitalism Chapter 21 Talcott Parsons and C. Wright Mills: Advanced Capitalism and Social Theory in Immediate Post-World War II America Chapter 22 Creative Currents in Contemporary Liberalism: Symbolic Interactionism, Exchange or Rational-Choice Theory, Functionalism, Liberal Feminism Chapter 23 Creative Currents in Contemporary Liberalism: Liberal Phenomenology, Philosophical Liberalism, and Liberal Jurisprudence Chapter 24 Creative Currents Outside Liberalism: Socialist Theory, Socialist Feminism, African-American Social Theory Chapter 25 Creative Currents Outside Liberalism: Radical Feminist Theory, American Culture Studies, Radical Environmental Theory Chapter 26 Generating Social Theory in an Age of Unprecedented Novelty and Diversity