Social Theory

Welcome to Social Theory

Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. The current release features more than 145,000 pages of content by such major theorists as Theodor Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Howard Becker, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Robert Merton, Dorothy Smith, and Talcott Parsons.
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, by Max Weber

Weber discusses the interaction between religious beliefs and economics in one of his most influential and controversial works. He argues that the Protestant values of hard work and discipline were instrumental in the development of capitalism.

Stigma, by Erving Goffman

Goffman explores social identity, deviance, and social groups and how they relate to social stigmas in this classic work in social psychology.

Property, Women and Politics: Subject Or Objects? by Donna Dickenson

Dickenson reconsiders the idea of women and property using both feminism and political theories. She discusses topics such as women in classical Greece, nineteenth-century prostitution, and contract motherhood.

Macrohistory: Essays In the Sociology of the Long Run, by Randall Collins

Collins writes on the golden age of macrohistorical sociology and analyzes long-term patterns of political and social change. He highlights theories of revolution and discusses the prediction of the Soviet Union collapse.