| About the Authors |
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| Preface |
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1 The Rise of Theoretical Sociology |
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1 | (18) |
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The Enlightenment and New Ways of Thinking |
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4 | (6) |
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The Intellectual Revolution |
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4 | (4) |
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The Political and Economic Revolutions |
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8 | (2) |
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Early Sociological Theory, 1830-1930 |
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10 | (4) |
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14 | (2) |
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16 | (3) |
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2 The Origin and Context of Auguste Comte's Sociology |
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19 | (18) |
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The Strange Biography of Auguste Comte |
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19 | (3) |
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The Intellectual Origins of Comte's Thought |
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22 | (12) |
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23 | (2) |
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25 | (3) |
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28 | (1) |
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29 | (5) |
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34 | (3) |
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Liberal Elements in Comte's Thought |
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34 | (1) |
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Traditional Elements in Comte's Thought |
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35 | (2) |
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3 The Sociology of Auguste Comte |
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37 | (18) |
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38 | (2) |
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Comte's Course of Positive Philosophy |
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40 | (13) |
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Comte's View of Sociological Theory |
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40 | (3) |
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Comte's Formulation of Sociological Methods |
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43 | (2) |
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Comte's Organization of Sociology |
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45 | (6) |
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Comte's Advocacy of Sociology |
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51 | (2) |
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53 | (2) |
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4 The Origin and Context of Herbert Spencer's Thought |
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55 | (12) |
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Biographical Influences on Spencerian Sociology |
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55 | (4) |
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The Political Economy of Nineteenth-Century England |
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59 | (1) |
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The Scientific Milieu of Spencer's England |
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60 | (4) |
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60 | (3) |
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Influences From the Physical Sciences |
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63 | (1) |
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Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy and the Sociology of Comte |
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64 | (1) |
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65 | (2) |
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5 The Sociology of Herbert Spencer |
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67 | (44) |
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Spencer's Moral Philosophy: Social Statics and Principles of Ethics |
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68 | (3) |
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Spencer's First Principles |
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71 | (2) |
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Spencer's The Study of Sociology |
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73 | (4) |
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The Methodological Problems Confronting Sociology |
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73 | (3) |
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76 | (1) |
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A Note on Spencer's Descriptive Sociology |
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77 | (4) |
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Spencer's Principles of Sociology |
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81 | (21) |
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The Superorganic and the Organismic Analogy |
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82 | (1) |
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The Analysis of Superorganic Dynamics |
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83 | (19) |
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The Analysis of Societal Institutions |
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102 | (6) |
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Domestic Institutions and Kinship |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (1) |
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106 | (1) |
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107 | (1) |
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108 | (3) |
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6 The Origin and Context of Karl Marx's Thought |
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111 | (30) |
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Biographical Influences on Marx's Thought |
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111 | (7) |
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Hegel and the Young Hegelians |
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112 | (1) |
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113 | (3) |
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116 | (2) |
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G. W. F. Hegel and Karl Marx |
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118 | (6) |
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119 | (2) |
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Marx's Rejection of Hegel's Idealism |
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121 | (2) |
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Marx's Acceptance of Hegel's Dialectical Method |
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123 | (1) |
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Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl Marx |
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124 | (3) |
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The Young Hegelians and Marx's Thought |
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124 | (2) |
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Feuerbach and Marx's Thought |
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126 | (1) |
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127 | (6) |
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Political Economy and Marx's Thought |
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128 | (1) |
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129 | (4) |
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Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx |
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133 | (8) |
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Engels's Critique of Political Economy |
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133 | (2) |
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Engels's Analysis of the Working Class |
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135 | (6) |
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7 The Sociology of Karl Marx |
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141 | (40) |
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142 | (8) |
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The Nature of Social Theory |
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143 | (1) |
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The Characteristics of All Societies |
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143 | (4) |
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Marx's Theoretical Methodology |
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147 | (3) |
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150 | (16) |
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Bourgeoisie and Proletarians |
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150 | (5) |
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Proletarians and Communists |
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155 | (3) |
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Socialist and Communist Literature |
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158 | (1) |
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Communist and Other Opposition Parties |
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159 | (1) |
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Marx's View of Capitalism in Historical Context |
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160 | (2) |
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Marx's Model of Stratification and Class Conflict |
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162 | (4) |
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166 | (10) |
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The Labor Theory of Value |
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167 | (2) |
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169 | (3) |
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172 | (2) |
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Capitalism in Historical Context |
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174 | (2) |
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176 | (5) |
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Substantive Contradictions |
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176 | (1) |
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177 | (2) |
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179 | (2) |
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8 The Origin and Context of Max Weber's Thought |
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181 | (20) |
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Biographical Influences on Weber's Thought |
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181 | (1) |
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181 | (6) |
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183 | (3) |
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The Transition to Sociology |
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186 | (1) |
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187 | (3) |
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188 | (1) |
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The Inevitability of History |
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189 | (1) |
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190 | (1) |
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The Methodenstreit and Max Weber |
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190 | (5) |
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Issues Dividing the Historical and Theoretical Schools |
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191 | (2) |
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Weber's Response to the Methodenstreit |
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193 | (2) |
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Wilhelm Dilthey and Max Weber |
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195 | (2) |
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Dilthey's Methodology of the Social Sciences |
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195 | (1) |
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Weber's Response to Dilthey's Work |
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196 | (1) |
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Heinrich Rickert and Max Weber |
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197 | (3) |
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Weber's Response to Rickert |
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199 | (1) |
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Weber's Theoretical Synthesis |
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200 | (1) |
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9 The Sociology of Max Weber |
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201 | (46) |
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Weber's Methodology of the Social Sciences |
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202 | (5) |
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202 | (3) |
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205 | (2) |
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Weber's Image of Social Organization |
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207 | (5) |
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Weber's Analysis of Domination |
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212 | (16) |
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212 | (6) |
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Social Stratification: Class, Status Group, and Party |
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218 | (7) |
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Weber's Model of Social Change |
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225 | (1) |
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Weber's Model of Stratification and Geopolitics |
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226 | (2) |
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Weber on Capitalism and Rationalization |
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228 | (3) |
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Weber's Study of Religion |
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231 | (12) |
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The Quasi-Experimental Design |
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232 | (2) |
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism |
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234 | (7) |
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Weber's Comparative Studies of Religion and Capitalism |
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241 | (2) |
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Weber's Outline of the Social System |
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243 | (2) |
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245 | (2) |
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10 The Origin and Context of Georg Simmel's Thought |
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247 | (14) |
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Biographical Influences on Simmel's Thought |
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247 | (4) |
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247 | (1) |
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Simmel's Intellectual Career |
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248 | (3) |
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Intellectual Influences on Simmel's Thought |
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251 | (9) |
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A Note on Simmel and Weber |
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251 | (1) |
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Herbert Spencer, Social Darwinism, and Simmel's Thought |
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252 | (2) |
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Immanuel Kant and Simmel's Thought |
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254 | (3) |
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Karl Marx and Simmel's Thought |
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257 | (3) |
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260 | (1) |
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11 The Sociology of Georg Simmel |
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261 | (36) |
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Simmel's Methodological Approach to the Study of Society |
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262 | (7) |
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263 | (1) |
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How Should Sociology Study Society? |
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264 | (2) |
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What Are the Problem Areas of Sociology? |
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266 | (3) |
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The Web of Group Affiliations |
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269 | (6) |
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The Web of Group Affiliations as a Social Form |
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270 | (1) |
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Structural Changes Accompanying Social Differentiation |
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271 | (1) |
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The Consequences of Differentiation |
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272 | (3) |
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275 | (7) |
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Conflict as a Social Form |
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275 | (1) |
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276 | (3) |
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279 | (3) |
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282 | (12) |
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Exchange as a Social Form |
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283 | (1) |
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Simmel's Assumptions About Human Nature |
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284 | (2) |
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286 | (2) |
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Money and Its Consequences for Social Relations |
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288 | (6) |
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294 | (3) |
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12 The Origin and Context of Emile Durkheim's Thought |
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297 | (30) |
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Biographical Influences on Durkheim's Thought |
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297 | (4) |
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Charles Montesquieu and Durkheim |
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301 | (7) |
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Montesquieu as the First Social Scientist |
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301 | (1) |
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Montesquieu's View of "Laws" |
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302 | (1) |
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Montesquieu's Typology of Governments |
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303 | (2) |
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The Causes and Functions of Governments |
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305 | (3) |
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Jean Jacques Rousseau and Durkheim |
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308 | (5) |
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308 | (2) |
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Specific Influences on Durkheim |
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310 | (3) |
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Auguste Comte and Durkheim |
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313 | (3) |
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The Science of Positivism |
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313 | (1) |
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The Methodological Tenets of Positivism |
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314 | (1) |
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Social Statics and Dynamics |
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315 | (1) |
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Science and Social Progress |
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316 | (1) |
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Alexis de Tocqueville and Durkheim |
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316 | (4) |
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Tocqueville's Democracy in America |
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317 | (2) |
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Specific Influences on Durkheim |
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319 | (1) |
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Herbert Spencer and Durkheim |
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320 | (2) |
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Durkheim and Spencerian Utilitarianism |
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320 | (1) |
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Durkheim and Spencerian Organicism |
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321 | (1) |
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Durkheim and Spencerian Evolutionism |
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321 | (1) |
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322 | (1) |
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Anticipating Durkheimian Sociology |
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323 | (4) |
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323 | (1) |
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324 | (1) |
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324 | (1) |
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324 | (3) |
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13 The Sociology of Emile Durkheim |
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327 | (42) |
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The Division of Labor in Society |
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328 | (14) |
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328 | (1) |
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The Collective Conscience |
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329 | (1) |
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330 | (1) |
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Mechanical and Organic Solidarity |
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331 | (3) |
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334 | (2) |
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336 | (1) |
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Pathology and Abnormal Forms |
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337 | (5) |
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The Rules of the Sociological Method |
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342 | (5) |
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343 | (1) |
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Rules for the Observation of Social Facts |
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344 | (1) |
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Rules for Distinguishing Between the Normal and the Pathological |
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345 | (1) |
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Rules for the Classification of Social Types |
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345 | (1) |
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Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts |
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346 | (1) |
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Rules for Establishing Sociological Proofs |
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346 | (1) |
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347 | (6) |
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348 | (3) |
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Suicide and Social Integration |
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351 | (1) |
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351 | (1) |
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Suicide and the Social Organization of Organic Societies |
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352 | (1) |
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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life |
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353 | (10) |
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An Overview of Durkheim's Argument |
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355 | (4) |
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Some Further Implications of Elementary Forms |
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359 | (4) |
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363 | (4) |
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364 | (3) |
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367 | (2) |
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14 The Origin and Context of George Herbert Mead's Thought |
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369 | (26) |
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Biographical Influences on Mead's Thought |
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369 | (2) |
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Mead's Synthesis of Schools of Thought |
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371 | (8) |
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371 | (1) |
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372 | (1) |
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373 | (3) |
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376 | (3) |
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379 | (3) |
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380 | (1) |
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Wundt's View of "Mental Communities" |
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381 | (1) |
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382 | (4) |
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382 | (1) |
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James's View of Consciousness |
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382 | (1) |
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James's View of Self-Consciousness |
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383 | (3) |
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Charles Horton Cooley and Mead |
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386 | (4) |
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Cooley's View of Social Organization |
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386 | (1) |
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Cooley's View of Interaction |
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386 | (1) |
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387 | (2) |
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Cooley's View of Primary Groups |
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389 | (1) |
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390 | (2) |
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391 | (1) |
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392 | (1) |
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392 | (3) |
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15 The Sociology of George Herbert Mead |
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395 | (38) |
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Mead's Broader Philosophy |
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395 | (1) |
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396 | (27) |
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Mead's View of the "Life Process" |
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397 | (1) |
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Mead's Social Behaviorism |
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398 | (2) |
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Mead's Behavioristic View of Mind |
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400 | (6) |
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Mead's Behavioristic View of Self |
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406 | (8) |
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Mead's Conception of Society |
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414 | (9) |
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The Philosophy of the Act |
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423 | (7) |
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424 | (1) |
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425 | (1) |
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426 | (2) |
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428 | (2) |
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430 | (3) |
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16 The Emergence of Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives |
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433 | (52) |
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Nine Theoretical Traditions and Perspectives |
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434 | (49) |
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434 | (2) |
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436 | (6) |
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442 | (4) |
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446 | (8) |
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Interactionist Theorizing |
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454 | (10) |
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464 | (5) |
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469 | (6) |
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475 | (3) |
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478 | (5) |
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483 | (2) |
| Author Index |
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485 | (4) |
| Subject Index |
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