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Sociology

The science of society itself — from Comte to Garfinkel, from grand theory to the interaction order.

Who is Who in this Department ☞

Classical Founders

Auguste Comte Simulacrum

Positivism · The Science of Society · Three Stages · Social Statics & Dynamics

Harriet Martineau Simulacrum

Comparative Method · Abolitionist Sociology · How to Observe Morals & Manners

Karl Marx Simulacrum

Historical Materialism · Critique of Capital · Class Struggle · Alienation

Herbert Spencer Simulacrum

Synthetic Philosophy · Social Evolution · Differentiation · The Organism Analogy

Ferdinand Tönnies Simulacrum

Gemeinschaft & Gesellschaft · Community vs Society · The Will Behind Both

19th–20th century

Émile Durkheim Simulacrum

Social Facts · Solidarity · Anomie · The Division of Labour · Suicide

19th–20th century

Georg Simmel Simulacrum

Forms of Sociation · The Stranger · Micro-Geometry · The Metropolis

19th–20th century

Max Weber Simulacrum

Interpretive Sociology · Rationalization · Ideal Types · The Iron Cage · Bureaucracy

19th–20th century

W.E.B. Du Bois Simulacrum

Double Consciousness · The Color Line · The Philadelphia Negro · Empirical Sociology

19th–20th century

Gabriel Tarde Simulacrum

Imitation · Publics vs Crowds · Micro-Sociology · Opinion and the Crowd

American Tradition

George Herbert Mead Simulacrum

Mind, Self & Society · Symbolic Interaction · The Generalised Other · The I and the Me

19th–20th century

Arthur Kronfeld Simulacrum

Psychotherapy · Sexual Psychology · Individual Psychology · Weimar Clinical Psychology

19th–20th century

Talcott Parsons Simulacrum

Structural Functionalism · The Social System · AGIL · Pattern Variables

Robert K. Merton Simulacrum

Middle-Range Theory · Manifest & Latent Functions · Unintended Consequences · Anomie

Micro-Sociology & Interactionism

Harold Garfinkel Simulacrum

Ethnomethodology · Practical Accomplishment · Breaching Experiments · Accountability

Erving Goffman Simulacrum

Dramaturgy · The Interaction Order · Frame Analysis · Impression Management · Stigma

Howard Becker Simulacrum

Labelling Theory · Art Worlds · Outsiders · Deviance as Social Process

20th–21st century

Scottish Enlightenment Sociology

Adam Ferguson Simulacrum

Civil Society · Civic Virtue · Spontaneous Order · Essay on the History of Civil Society

John Millar Simulacrum

Stadial Theory · Economic Base · Authority · The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks

Frankfurt School

Max Horkheimer Simulacrum

Critical Theory · Eclipse of Reason · Traditional vs Critical Theory

Herbert Marcuse Simulacrum

One-Dimensional Man · The Great Refusal · Repressive Tolerance · Eros and Civilization

Theodor Adorno Simulacrum

Negative Dialectics · Culture Industry · Aesthetic Theory · The Authoritarian Personality

French Tradition

Marcel Mauss Simulacrum

The Gift · Total Social Fact · Techniques of the Body · Exchange

19th–20th century

Michel Foucault Simulacrum

Power/Knowledge · Archaeology · Genealogy · Discipline · Biopolitics

Pierre Bourdieu Simulacrum

Habitus · Field · Capital · Symbolic Violence · Distinction

Guy Debord Simulacrum

The Society of the Spectacle · Situationism · Détournement · Dérive · Recuperation

Jacques Ellul Simulacrum

Propaganda · Technique · The Technological Society · Integration Propaganda · Democratic Propaganda

Family, Education & Society

Willmott & Young Simulacrum

The Symmetrical Family · Stratified Diffusion · Conjugal Roles · Family & Kinship in East London

Correspondence Education Simulacrum

Correspondence Principle · Schooling & Capitalism · The Hidden Curriculum · Social Reproduction

20th–21st century

Francisian Gender Simulacrum

Gender Identity & Education · Boys’ Underachievement Debate · Subject Choice · Patriarchy in Schools

20th–21st century

Willisian Education Simulacrum

Cultural Reproduction · Counter-School Culture · The Lads · Learning to Labour

20th–21st century

Davis & Moore Simulacrum

Functionalist Stratification · Role Allocation · Meritocracy · Some Principles of Stratification

Walbyan Patriarchy Simulacrum

Six Structures of Patriarchy · Public vs Private Patriarchy · Gender Inequality · Theorizing Patriarchy

20th–21st century

Albert Cohen Simulacrum

Status Frustration · Delinquent Subcultures · Reaction Formation · Delinquent Boys

20th–21st century

Collective Irrationality, Crowd Psychology & Media

Jean-Gabriel de Tarde Simulacrum

Le Bon sees the CROWD — the mob in the street, physically co-present, dissolved

Jacques Ellul Simulacrum

Bernays thinks propaganda is a TOOL that the propagandist uses ON the public. I

Herbert Marshall McLuhan Simulacrum

Everyone discusses what is ON television. No one discusses what television DOES.

Guy Ernest Debord Simulacrum

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents

Neil Postman Simulacrum

We were warned about two dystopias. Orwell warned that books would be BANNED. Hu

Sociology

Marshall McLuhan Simulacrum

Media Theory · The Medium is the Message · Hot and Cool Media · The Global Village · Sensory Environment

Neil Postman Simulacrum

Media Ecology · Amusing Ourselves to Death · Technopoly · The Disappearance of Childhood

Habermasian Communicative Reason Simulacrum

Communicative Action · Public Sphere · Discourse Ethics · Deliberative Democracy

Living (b. 1929)

IFSW Collective

Social Work Ethics · Human Rights · Community Development · Collective Practice