Theories of social order : a reader

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PART I: WHAT IS THEORY?: A: THEORY IS EXPLANATION: Explanation in the social sciences / George C. Homans

B: MOTIVES AND MECHANISMS: Types of social action / Max Weber

PART II: SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM OF THE SOCIAL ORDER: C: THE PROBLEM OS SOCIAL ORDER: The moral basis of a backward society / Edward C. Banfield

D: MEANING: The problem of consciousness / Karl Marx

The origin of beliefs / Emile Durkheim

Genesis and development of a scientific fact / Ludwik Fleck

Play, the game, and the generalized order / George Herbert Mead

Meanings of violencee / Dov Cohen and Joe Vandello

E: VALUES AND NORMS: Civilization and its discontents / Sigmund Freud

Egoistic suicide / Emile Durkheim

Anomic suicide / Emile Durkheim

Explaining the emergence of norms / Christine Horne

Behavior in public places / Erving Goffman

Altruistic punishment in humans / Ernst Fehr and Simon Gaachter

F: POWER AND AUTHORITY: Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes

The origin of the states / Friedrich Engels

The types of legitimate domination / Max Weber

Learning to labor / Paul Willis == G: SPONTANEOUS ORDER: Cosmos and taxis / Friedrich A. Hayek

Micromotives and macrobehavior / Thomas C. Schelling

The division of labor / Adam Smith

The evolution of cooperation / Robert Axelrod

The live-and-let-live system in trench warfare in World War I / Robert Axelrod

H: GROUPS AND NETWORKS: The web of group-affiliations / Georg Simmel

The strength of weak ties / Mark S. Granovetter

Trust, cohesion, and the social order / Ernest Gellner

Individualism and free institutions / Alexis de Tocqueville

The attainment of social order in heterogenous societies / Michael Hechter, Debra Friedman, and Satoshi Kanazawa

I: CONCLUSION