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100			_aCraib, Ian _922801
245		0	_aClassical social theory/ _cIan Craib
260			_aNew York: _bOxford University Press, _c1997.
300			_axxiv, 297 p. ; _c24 cm.
505			_aWhat's the point? -- The main characters and the main ideas -- What is society and how do we study it? Durkheim : the discovery of social facts -- Karl Marx : the primacy of production -- Max Weber : the primacy of social action -- Georg Simmel : society as form and process, an outsider's view -- Conclusion to part 1 : the first basic dualism of social theory -- Conceptions of social structure. Durkheim : drunk and orderly -- Was Marx a Marxist? -- The liberal Weber -- Simmel : the social and the personal -- Conclusion to part 2 : the theorists contrasted -- History and social change. Durkheim's organic analogy -- Marx and the meaning of history -- Weber as a tragic liberal : the rise of the West -- Simmel : countering an overdose of history? -- Conclusion : the framework of social theory -- Dramatis personae.
650			_aSocial sciences--Philosophy _99776
650			_aSociology--Philosophy
650			_aSocial sciences
650			_aSociology
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