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This bibliography of sociology is a list of works, organized by subdiscipline, on the subject of
sociology
Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...
. Some of the works are selected from general anthologies of sociology, while other works are selected because they are notable enough to be mentioned in a general history of sociology or one of its subdisciplines.
[See Michie, Jonathan, ed. 2001. ''Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences''.]
Sociology studies
society
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Socie ...
using various methods of empirical investigation to understand human
social activity, from the
micro
Micro may refer to:
Measurement
* micro- (μ), a metric prefix denoting a factor of 10−6
Places
* Micro, North Carolina, town in U.S.
People
* DJ Micro, (born Michael Marsicano) an American trance DJ and producer
*Chii Tomiya (都宮 ちい ...
level of individual
agency and interaction to the
macro level of systems and
social structure
In the social sciences, social structure is the aggregate of patterned social arrangements in society that are both emergent from and determinant of the actions of individuals. Likewise, society is believed to be grouped into structurally rel ...
.
Foundations
*
Comte, Auguste. 1865.
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*Karl Marx">Marx, Karl
Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...
. 1867. [''Das Kapital">Capital: A Critique of Political Economy''].
*Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels, Engels, Friedrich. 1846. [''The German Ideology''].
*
Weber, Max. 1904. [''The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism''].
**Putting forward a thesis that
Puritan
The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England of Catholic Church, Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become m ...
ethic
Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns ma ...
and
idea
In common usage and in philosophy, ideas are the results of thought. Also in philosophy, ideas can also be mental representational images of some object. Many philosophers have considered ideas to be a fundamental ontological category of being ...
s had influenced the development of
capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for Profit (economics), profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, pric ...
, Weber observes religious devotion to usually be accompanied by rejection of mundane affairs, including economic pursuit. Weber addresses the
paradox
A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true premises, leads to a seemingly self-contradictory or a logically u ...
of why this was not the case within
Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...
.
*
Du Bois, W. E. B. 1899. ''
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study''.
Durkheim
*1893.
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[Durkheim, Emile. 1997 [1893]. ''The Division of Labour in Society'' (1st ed.). New York: Free Press. .]
*1897.
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Events
By place Europe
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**A case study of suicide rates amongst
Catholic
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
,
Protestant
Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century agai ...
and
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
populations, distinguished sociological analysis from psychology or philosophy. Also a major contribution to
structural functionalism
Structural functionalism, or simply functionalism, is "a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability".
This approach looks at society through a macro-level o ...
.
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[Cladis, Mark S., ed. 2008. ''The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life'' (reissue ed.), by Emile Durkheim, translated by C. Cosman. Oxford: Oxford University Press. .]
*1919. [''The Rules of Sociological Method''].
Culture
* Pierre Bourdieu, Bourdieu, Pierre. 1979. ''La distinction: Critique sociale du jugement''
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* Bourdieu, Pierre, and
Jean-Claude Passeron
Jean-Claude Passeron (born 26 November 1930) is a French sociologist and leader of social science studies. As part of a mixed interdisciplinary team involving sociologists, historians, and anthropologists, he led the magazine ''Enquêtes''.
Bio ...
.1970. ''La Reproduction. Éléments pour une théorie du système d'enseignement''
eproduction in Education, Society and Culture
* Katz, Jack. 1988. ''Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil''.
*
Schultz, Alfred. 1967. ''Der sinnhafte Aufbau der sozialen Welt''
'The Phenomenology of the Social world''
Economy
Economic sociology attempts to explain
economic
An economy is an area of the Production (economics), production, Distribution (economics), distribution and trade, as well as Consumption (economics), consumption of Goods (economics), goods and Service (economics), services. In general, it is ...
phenomena. While overlapping with the general study of
economics
Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services.
Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...
at times, economic sociology chiefly concentrates on the roles of social relations and institutions.
*
Boltanski, Luc, and Ève Chiapello. 2005. ''The New Spirit of Capitalism''.
*Boltanski, Luc, and
Laurent Thévenot Laurent Thévenot (born 1949) is a French sociologist Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).
Career
After initial research on ''social coding'' and ''investments in forms'' which contribute to action coordination ...
. 2006. ''On Justification. The Economies of Worth''.
*
de Tocqueville, Alexis. 1835/1840.
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*— 1856.
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Durkheim, Emile. 1893.
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*Polanyi, Karl. 1944. ''The Great Transformation (book), The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time''.
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